THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND during the thirty years' peace: 1816-1846 by Martineau, Harriet - 1849

London: Charles Knight, 1849. In two volumes. Pp. viii+600(last blank)+xii+722(last colophon), 16 portrait plates (including frontispiece to each volume), one small plan in Volume I, tables of cabinet ministers; roy. 8vo; nineteenth century half calf, the spines decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, with gilt lettered red & green leather title and volume labels, marbled papered boards, slightly rubbed, edges a trifle worn; marbled edges and endpapers; ribbon markers; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, with the earlier armorial roundel bookplate of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon on upper free endpaper versos, upper hinges starting (more so in Volume II), the plates faintly offset, pp. 200/201 in Volume I slightly browned, a little light foxing; Charles Knight, London, 1849-1850. *This set with no maps. In the Preface, Martineau explains that the work was originally begun by Charles Knight in 1846, and issued in parts up to the end of Book I. Knight's text, which covers the period from the end of 1815 to 1820, comprises almost the first half of Volume I.