A Short History of the English People
1877, with Jessel bookplate and juvelnile signature of businessman Oliver Jessel
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Printing Details
Reprint. Hardback, full leather binding by S Hogg, London, with marbled page edges. 18.5 × 12.5cm, xxxix + 847pp.
This copy with the bookplate of London barrister Albert Henry Jessel, designed artist by G M Ellwood and dated 1897, and with the juvenile ink signature of Oliver R Jessel from 1943. Oliver Richard Jessel was a hugely successful British businessman who in the 1970s was considered a master of the financial universe.
First published in 1874, Green's history runs from the formation of the English kingdoms in the fifth century through to the 1870s. It was a history that concentrated on the English people. Illustrated with maps.
Condition
A good copy but the front board had lived on the end of a shelf for some years and has geometric sun fading. The leather is in good condition, with just some light rubbing to the edges.
Price
£20.00
