RARE 2 HC Books Houghton Mifflin Foreign Biographies 1859 William Pitt, Cromwell
“FOREIGN BIOGRAPHIES PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY , BOSTON & just-arrived YORKRare 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 pages7. Oliver Cromwell by Lamartine 288 pagesEditor’s note on Lord Macaulay’s book is signed 1859. Other volumes in this set are also signed 1859. No publication dates given but remarkably 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 TALLFAINTLY NUMBERED1 and 7 IN ROMAN NUMERALS AT THE UPPER SPINES ALONG WITH the SERIES TITLEFOREIGN BIOGRAPHIES