Tech school presentation plate inside front board. No other added marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to sunned spine. A well read copy with dull unmarked boards, dusty page edges, one loose soiled page and no bumping to corners. ca 500pp.

Nineteen biographical sketches including James Watt, Nelson, George Stephenson, Earl of Dundonald, Louis Napoleon, Cook, George Washington, Sir Walter Scott, Peter the Great, Columbus, William Penn and Alexander Selkirk. Undated ca 1900 (from presentation plate).