The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo Sir Edward Creasy
1909. Reprinted. 407 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white maps and illustrations. Black and white portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is very heavily dulled but remains brighter on front. Creases and slight surface split to front board. Boards are bowed.