Queen Elizabeth by Mandell Creighton
1906. Reprinted. 307 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Heavy pencil inscriptions to rear endpapers. 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 slightly dulled. Some additional mild marks and staining. Book has strong forward lean.