The Life of John Churchill Duke of Marlborough Volume 1 by General Viscount Wolseley
1894. No Edition Remarks. 388 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound red leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Black and white portrait plates with tissue guards. Fold-out map at rear. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Cracking to hinges with exposed netting. Binding loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and rubbing to corners. Spine heavily worn and deteriorating. Gilt lettering dulled. Boards are slightly bowed.