Rivingtons, London, 1897, Third Edition.  Hard cover, 482 pages.  Blue cloth blind ruled front and rear; embossed symbol on front board; gold lettering and rules on spine.  Some edge, corner and spine end wear; small spots/soil on cloth; binding sound.  Prior owner’s name and info inked on front paste-down, another owner’s stamp on FEP; some age spots and off-setting to front and rear end papers and paste-downs.   Short ink marks in margin of p. 385 and name underlined on p. 399; some pencil erasures.  Black & white maps and illustrations.  This volume covers Books I – VI: England Before the Norman Conquest; The Norman Kings of England (1066-1154); The Earlier Angevin Kings, Sometimes Called Plantagenets; The Later Angevin Kings, Sometimes Called Plantagents; The Lancastrian and Yorkist Kings; and The House of Tudor (to Elizabeth 1603).