12no. vi, [1], 8- 180pp. Original publisher's green roan-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Early inked gift inscription to FFEP.

An unsophisticated copy of an immensely popular juvenile history of England, commonly attributed to politician John Wilson Croker (1780-1857). Commencing with William the Conqueror, the author documents the lives of 27 significant monarchs down to James II. The book would continue to be published into the early twentieth-century, reaching a seventeenth edition by 1908.