The Biographical Treasury; Consisting Of Memoirs, Sketches, or Brief Notices of the Lives of Eminent Persons, of All Ages and Nations from the Earliest Periods of History to the Present Time Forming a New and Complete Dictionary of Universal Biography. The Whole Surrounded with Precepts and Maxims Original and Selected. By Samuel Maunder. Author of The Treasury of Knowledge & Library of Reference to which this volume is designed as a companion. New Edition. London. Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. 

Samuel Maunder (1785 – 30 April 1849) was an English writer and composer of many works. He married a sister of William Pinnock, the author of numerous catechisms and educational works. Maunder was the author of several books, most notably The Biographical Treasury.

Details:

Half-leather binding with feathered boards

Gilt title to spine on brown label

Five gilt embellished raised bands forming six compartments

Frontispiece portraits

Two title-pages

Size: 165mm x 117mm x 44mm

Weight: 665g

Printed: 1847

Condition:

Solid binding with a sturdy feel; wear to extremities and leather a little rubbed; endpapers heavily spotted and browned; frontispiece and title-pages also heavily browned; main text body browned with occasional spotting; some creasing to lower fore-corners. 

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