Travels in the Free States of Central America: Nicaragua, Honduras, and San Salvador Works on Paper 'Cranford' is an episodic novel

'Cranford' is an episodic novel first issued in instalments in the magazine 'Household Words'

shallow bowing to upper board

Bound in full greenish-black morocco with intricate and ornate gilt decorations to sides and spine in the Moorish tradition

Later gift inscription to endpaper

Paul-Émile Botta and Austen Henry Layard

Travels in the Free States of Central America: Nicaragua, Honduras, and San Salvador Works on Paper 'Cranford' is an episodic novelLondon: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. First English edition. Two volumes bound as one. 8vo. pp xvi, 320; xii, 253 pp. Folding coloured map, folding cross section showing proposed canal, bound as an Eton College leaving gift. Bound in green polished calf with ornate gilt spine. double fillets around outside of boards, red morocco label; tips of corners rubbed. Ink gift inscription to first free endpaper. Marbled pastedowns and page