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ELTON, Charles. Origins of english history.

London. Bernard Quaritch, 1882. First edition.
8vo. [3], vi-xiv, [2], 458pp. Without half-title. With 10 folding plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, marbled paper boards, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, lightly sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp.
The first edition of a work on English history, from prehistory through to the Roman occupation, by English lawyer and antiquary Charles Elton (1839-1900). Elton was best known for his successful volume on bibliophilia, The Great Book-Collectors (1893), co-authored with his wife Mary Augusta.
£ 100.00 Antiquates Ref: 32960