Yoke of Empire: Sketches of the Queen's Prime Ministers Reginald B.Brett
1897. No Edition Remarks. 202 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpaper and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front pastedown. Moderate water staining to reverse frontispiece. Front free endpaper and half title page is missing. Frontispiece is detached but still present. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear and water marks to boards.