FRANCE: THE NATION AND ITS DEVELOPMENT BY WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON 1917 FINE TREE CALF BINDING

[HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY]. France: The Nation and its Development from Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Third Republic. London: George G. Harrap & Company, MCMXVII [1917].

First edition. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (20cm x 14cm x 5cm); pp. xxiv, 631. English text, with 83 photographic illustrations, 7 genealogical tables, and 5 maps. Handsomely bound in contemporary tree calf gilt by Bickers; marbled page edges and endpapers; half-title; title-page in red and black; printed footnotes; list of dates and index to rear. Condition; GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the joints and hinges intact. Some slight marks to boards. A little erosion of title-plate. Light foxing to endpapers. Prize plate to front pastedown.