The great sieges of history
Subtitle: with coloured illustrations.
Contributors: Dalziel Brothers.
Edition: A new edition, including the siege of Paris.
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1881
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 742
Subjects: Sieges.
Other titles: Great sieges of history :
Notes: Authorship taken from Dictionary of National Biography and British Library Public Catalogue.

Date range based on form of publisher's name and address.  Cf. Topp, Chester.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. I.

Colour wood-engraved plates include areas printed in colour with metal.  All are with captions.

Plates are unsigned.  One is possibly signed [Dalziel Sc.?].

With the same setting of type (except lacking Preface) as another edition of this title published in [1871] by George Routledge and Sons.  Possibly printed from stereotype plates.  Wood-engraved plates [1] and [4-8] are also the same as plates [1-6] used in this edition.  See McLean D 0946.

Publisher's advertisements on t.p. verso and on p. 1-6 at end.

MASS copy: Bound in brown fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold, black, silver and blind.  Upper cover with red and blue paper onlays blocked in gold.  Lower cover blocked in blind with publisher's monogram: "GR&S".  Spine with imprint: "Routledge".  Boards with bevelled edges.  With dark brown painted endpapers.  Lacking upper free endpaper.