RARE 2 HC Books Houghton Mifflin Foreign Biographies 1859 William Pitt, Cromwell

“FOREIGN BIOGRAPHIES" PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY , BOSTON & NEW YORK
Rare antique books with dark red or maroon cloth hardcover boards and gold gilt lettering on edges. Some lettering has faded over time, though still readable.
TITLES INCLUDE:
1. William Pitt by Macaulay 227 pages
7. Oliver Cromwell by Lamartine 288 pages
Editor’s note on Lord Macaulay’s book is signed 1859. Other volumes in this set are also signed 1859. No publication dates given but most likely pre-1880 when Houghton Mifflin Company became Houghton Mifflin and Company after a merger.
PRINTED AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
SIZE each 6 3/4" TALL
FAINTLY NUMBERED
1 and 7 IN ROMAN NUMERALS AT THE UPPER SPINES ALONG WITH the SERIES TITLE
"FOREIGN BIOGRAPHIES"