The Comic History of England/The Comic History of Rome (2 vols) (1800s)

The Comic History of England by Gilbert Abbott A’Beckett. Undated. Twenty hand-coloured steel-engraved plates and 200 woodcuts. Together with: The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert Abbott A’Beckett. Bradbury and Evans. Undated. Ten hand-coloured steel engravings and numerous woodcuts. Both Quarter leather over marbled boards with raised bands to spine. Both Spines lettered in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Condition: extremities rubbed, with some scuffing and scratching to covers. Previous owners bookplate to front pastedowns of both volumes.