The Maclise Portrait-Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters with Memoirs William Bates
1898. No Edition Remarks. 540 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Front free endpaper appears to have been removed. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Minor pencil inscription to half-title page. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing boards to be slightly loose. Light scuffing to text-block edges. 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. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Scuffing along spine joints.