The Historie Booke: A Tale of Two Worlds and Five Centuries, 1537, 1638, 1903

PUBLISHER
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts (privately printed)

BINDING
Royal blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and design. Gilt block edges. Endpapers have a pattern of crests. 

BOOK CONDITION
In generally worn condition commensurate with age. Scuffing around edges, corners bumped and some fraying at ends of spine. Some scratches and scuff marks to front and back boards. Gilt remains bright. Hinges weak and the binding is split at the list of illustrations index, which is loose. All other leaves feel reasonably secure. Some browning, but printed pages and images are mostly clear and little marked.

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
1903, this is numbered 1,805 of a limited edition of 2,500 copies.

DESCRIPTION
Published to celebrate the meeting of the Honourable Artillery Companies of London and Boston in 1903. Illustrated with eight plates mainly of notable members and facsimiles of documents,, and marginal illustrations decorating every page of text. Illuminated list of subscribers, decorated initials. A handsome commemorative volume. 176 pp. 25 x 32 cm.

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