Léon GALIBERT

First edition illustrated with 24 steel engravings after the Rouargue brothers (views, animated historical scenes) and 12 hand-colored and gummed wooden plates of military costumes, as well as numerous wood-engraved vignettes in text. One folding colored map with plans of the principal cities. The work had been published for the first time in 1844, it was continued until the year 1853 in this edition with some parts in first edition.
Publisher's full red morocco binding signed Tripon. Spine with raised bands decorated with ornamental compartments of foliage. Gilt title. Large central gilt plaque, quintuple framing fillet and thick framing fillet. Interior frieze. All edges gilt. White w

First edition illustrated with 197 plates and 5 maps, 3 of which folding. Collection L'univers illustrée.
Contemporary half green sheep bindings. Smooth spines decorated with 2 tools and a succession of monastic roll ornaments. Gilt titles and volume numbers. Upper joint of volume 4 cracked at head for 1 cm. Rubbing.
Handsome copies, very decorative.
History of England, by period: Saxon period, Norman period, Tudors, House of Hanover... Volume 4 contains the history of Scotland and Ireland, the authors having chosen to group under the term England the United Kingdom.