Charles MacFarlane and Thomas ArcherSubscription Sample Book - The Popular History of England, Civil, Military, and Religious, from the earliest times to the close of the year 1885.
Publisher information: Blackie & Son, London, circa 1885
Description and condition: Decorated cloth hardback, 7 1/2 by 10 3/4 inch (4to), illustrated with 6 colour, 14 b/w plates and 2 double page maps.
Covers show wear and some paint stains, corners are bumped. Two pages have ink stains and about the last 20 pages have a small stain in the top corner. The illustrations remain clean and crisp.
Contents: This is a salesman's sample book, therefore the text is not complete. The sample spine is pasted onto the back endpaper. 'The Work will be of imperial 8vo size, and printed on fine paper. It will be completed in 21 Parts at 2s. each, most of them containing ninety-six pages of letterpress; or in 7 Divisions at 6s. each, done up in stiff paper covers. Each Part will be accompanied with three 8vo pages of pictorial illustrations, or their equivalent, and of these one in each alternate part will be in colour. The Work will also be issued in 6 Half-volumes substantially bound in cloth extra, red edges, at 9s. 6d. each.
When completed it will, for general attractiveness, copiousness of illustration, and moderate price, compare favourable with any History of England hitherto published.' A nice example of a salesman's sample book, which is becoming increasingly harder to find.
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