LORD MACAULAY'S ESSAYS AND LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME 1914 FINE TREE CALF BINDING

[MACAULAY, LORD (1800-1859)]. Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1914.

'Popular edition' - new impression. Hardcover. Full leather. Octavo. Pp. 923. Handsome prize binding of contemporary tree calf, with Hugh Rees Ltd. booksellers ticket to rear pastedown. Five raised spine bands, the compartments and bands ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt. Morocco lettering-piece in second compartment. Gilt ruled frames to boards with corner-pieces, the edges and inner dentelles similarly gilt. Gilt armorial crest of Christs Hospital to upper board. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound without a half-title page. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., Edinburgh. Condition: Binding tight and secure with the hinges intact. Minor trace of scuffing to spine. Contents remarkably fresh and clean with just a few spots to endpapers. Without previous ownership markings.