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KNIGHT'S POPULAR HISTORY OF ENGLAND
Popular History of England. With upwards of one thousand illustrations on steel and wood.
London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co., [c.1862].
8 vols., 8vo (8.75 x 6.25 inches). Half chocolate morocco, dense gilt pattern to spine, brown cloth boards, marbled edges and endpapers. Profusely illustrated throughout with engraved plates and vignettes, including frontispiece and red and black title. Very slightly rubbed. A handsome, illustrated set.
Charles Knight was a key figure in the development of the popular press and literature during the nineteenth-century; one of his most successful works, Knight's Popular History was "an essentially constitutional history, a whiggish narrative of national progress, based on protestantism, economic prosperity, and harmonious co-operation between different social classes. Separate chapters covered the social, economic, and cultural history of the country..." (DNB).
£520.00
(equal to approx. US$823.59* or €619.56* for 9 February 2012)
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