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JESSE, John Heneage. Charles the Second. London: Humphreys, 1902.
8o (210 x 146 mm). Royal blue morocco gilt, rounded sides, covers with double gilt fillet, enclosing large panel and central gilt English royal coat-of-arms surrounded by small crowned "CC" monograms and rose tools, each corner with three small tudor rose decorations of white and red morocco onlays and gilt leavy stems, spine in six compartments, two lettered in gilt, rest with matching morocco tudor rose onlay designs, blue morocco turn-ins and upper doublure of red morocco gilt, semé of tudor roses, imperial orb and other tools, center SET WITH A FINE OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF CHARLES II (70 x 54 mm), in metal frame surrounded by recessed gilt tooling, blue silk endpapers and lower doublure, stamp signed on upper turn-in: "Bound for J.W. Robinson Company BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE", edges gilt (minor wear to ends of joints). Provenance: Edward Laurence Doheny (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate).
8o (210 x 146 mm). Royal blue morocco gilt, rounded sides, covers with double gilt fillet, enclosing large panel and central gilt English royal coat-of-arms surrounded by small crowned "CC" monograms and rose tools, each corner with three small tudor rose decorations of white and red morocco onlays and gilt leavy stems, spine in six compartments, two lettered in gilt, rest with matching morocco tudor rose onlay designs, blue morocco turn-ins and upper doublure of red morocco gilt, semé of tudor roses, imperial orb and other tools, center SET WITH A FINE OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF CHARLES II (70 x 54 mm), in metal frame surrounded by recessed gilt tooling, blue silk endpapers and lower doublure, stamp signed on upper turn-in: "Bound for J.W. Robinson Company BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE", edges gilt (minor wear to ends of joints). Provenance: Edward Laurence Doheny (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate).