The Story of the Nations; Venice Alethea Wiel
1894. No Edition Remarks. 478 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Front free endpaper appears to have been removed. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Minor pencil inscription to front pastedown. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing boards to be slightly loose. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and light marking overall. Small scuffed hole to spine.