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Hardcover. Zustand: VG. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 282 pages. Corners slilghtly bumped and rubbed; ink ownership inscription. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

A few spots of foxing; no inscriptions; lettering on spine dull & worn; spine worn, creased & discoloured. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

1p., 4to. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. With the date stamps of the Royal Society of Arts. He thanks him for 'the cuttings, several of which I had not seen', and states that he will be delighted to 'present a copy of my book to your library'. He had been meaning to give one 'at the conclusion of the exhibition'. He is grateful to Menzies for offering to review the book in the Society's journal, and is 'already so much indebted to te Royal Society of Arts for kindness received'. (The Society and Domville-Fife's offices were in close proximity.) He is enclosing a copy of a book, 'which is great undertaking when one has other duties to perform. The first run is 60,000 copies and it is going all over the Empire'. The prospectus for 'The Encyclopaedia of the British Empire' ('The First Encyclopedic Record of the Greatest Empire in the History of the World.') is 4pp., 4to. With text in blue and cover strikingly printed in colour, and depicting a lantern-jawed Englishman poring over a map of the British Empire.…