Debrett;s Peerage, 1829. 2 volumes bound as one, contemporary half leather

Debrett’s Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In two volumes. The seventeenth edition, newly arranged and considerably improved. prnted by G. Woodfall [London] 1829, thick octavo [7½ x 4¼ x 3¼ ins].

Vol. I ENGLAND: Frontis of George IV, cxv, 110pp Arms of the Peers &c,. 467pp; Vol. II SCOTLAND AND IRELAND : xii, pp 481-1008, [ii publisher’s ads] . Contemporary half leather gilt with marbled boards and red spine label gilt, all edges marbled, complete and surprisingly good condition for its age, an understandable crack to the spine leather in view of the thickness, frontispiece portrait foxed, no previous ownership markings.    sep5/3