Bindings: History

David Hume, The History of England, 8 vols., new edition, folding portrait frontispiece to vol. 1, creased, tear to fold, half-title to vol. 1, vol. 8 with wormtrailing to title and first third of textblock, bookplates of Henry Johnson to front pastedown, contemporary calf gilt, morocco title labels to spines, vol. 1 in variant binding with trimmed textblock, worn, some labels detaching, Dublin, James Williams, 1772 § William Robertson, The History of America, 2 vols., first Dublin edition, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. 1, folding frontispiece to vol. 2, half-title, bookplate of Henry Johnson to front pastedown, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt-tooled with morocco title label (volumes misnumbered), Dublin, Whitestone et al., 1777 (10) [not subject to return]