Strafford -- 2 volumes
London: Macmillan and Co., 1931. Hardcover. 2 volumes: xvi, 348 p., frontispiece portrait and 4 leaves of plates; vii, [1], 373 p., frontispiece portrait and 3 leaves of plates; 23 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine titles. No dust jackets. Name of former owner on front free endpapers and first page of text in each volume: Frank Wilson Hachtel. Frank Wilson Hachtel (1883-1972) was a professor of biology at the University of Maryland. Each volume also bears the stamp on the front fixed endpaper, the copyright page, and the upper page edges of the Health Sciences Library, University of Maryland, and on the back free endpaper: "Withdrawn From HSL"; on the back fixed endpaper the small circular bookdealer's label of The Norman, Remington Co., Baltimore. An important biography of English statesman Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593-1641). A heavy set; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. In Good Condition: ex-library as described above and with call numbers written in white on lower spine; closed 2-cm. tear from head of spine of vol. 2; spines are sunned; internally clean and tight. Good. Item #011361
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