Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles The First, King of England (Volumes I and II)

Complete in two volumes. New edition, revised by the author. xv, 556; viii, 582pp. Both volumes uniformly half bound in leather over marbled boards, top edges gilt (heavily rubbed at edges and corners with some loss, leather around spine fraying and largely worn and chipped away, worn all over, gilding tarnished). Internally there are stamps and labels on the front endpapers indicating that the volumes were once in the Officers’ Mess Library, Canterbury Depot of the Buffs (The Royal East Kent Regiment). The stamp of the Military Library Canterbury also appears on the title page of each volume, and has leached to the opposite page, else internally the volumes are both largely neat, clean, tight and bright. The author, Issac Disraeli, was the father of Benjamin Disraeli, who served as the British Prime Minister in the latter part of the 19th century. 8vo.