The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 (1716-1775)

A beautiful hardcover in very good condition. The red cloth boards are clean and very well preserved, with an elaborate blind-stamped panel to the front board that remains crisp and well defined, including the motto Diev et mon droit and the initials H R. Gilt titling and ornamental devices to the spine are bright and fully legible. The binding is firm and tight. Pages are clean, free of marks, and retain their deckle edges. The frontispiece reproduces R. Caxton Woodville's painting The Charge of the British at Quebec and is protected by a tissue guard printed with a vignette of the Wolfe and Montcalm monument. A clean, tight book of an attractive binding. The Great Events by Famous Historians is an ambitious multivolume set presenting world history through the original narratives of noted historians, arranged chronologically. Edited by Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., with associate editors Charles F. Horne, Ph.D., and John Rudd, LL.D., and published by The National Alumni, New York, 1905. This volume covers 1716 to 1775, with accounts of Wolfe's victory at Quebec, the exile of the Acadian Neutrals, the usurpation of Catherine II in Russia, and the intellectual revolt of Germany, in which Goethe's Werther aroused Romanticism. Each volume in the set carries a facsimile binding of a historically significant original. The binding of this volume reproduces that of the copy of Assertio Septem Sacramentorum presented by Henry VIII to Pope Leo X. According to the binding note in the volume, it was executed by Thomas Berthelet, the Royal Binder, who was the first to employ gold tooling in England.