[Provenance] Knights Templar, Malta
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Taaffe, John. THE HISTORY OF THE HOLY, MILITARY, SOVEREIGN ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM; OR, KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS, KNIGHTS TEMPLARS, KNIGHTS OF RHODES, KNIGHTS OF MALTA…. IN FOUR VOLUMES. London: Hope & Co., 1852. 8vo, 4 vol. set. With frontispiece to first volume, each volume with errata slips tipped in after title. Bound in early full polished plum-colored calf, with marbled page-ends and endpapers. *************** The present copy belonged to cricketer Leonard Micklem, with his engraved bookplates to front pastedowns. The front endpaper of the first volume bears a gift inscription to Micklem from his friends Cyril and John Fortescue, who presented him with this book upon his leaving Eton, dated 1865. While playing school cricket for Eton, Micklem was described by Wisden as a "good and sure bat," and he would go on to play first-class cricket. While best known as a cricketer, Micklem also went on to be a rather prominent figure in the Brazilian railway industry.
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With light rubbing or wear to some extremities, volume labels chipped. Endpapers and titles with some foxing though contents quite clean otherwise. Very Good.
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[Provenance] Knights Templar, Malta
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