The Maclise Portrait-Gallery of "Illustrious Literary Characters" With Memoirs.

Title: The Maclise Portrait-Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters With Memoirs. Biographical, Critical, Bibliographical & Anecdotal. Illustrative of the Literature of the Former Half of the Present Century. 
Author: William Bates. 
Publisher: Chatto and Windus: London. 
Published Date: 1883.
Pagination: pp.540.
Condition: Very Good.
 
Half bound in red Morocco with matching red cloth boards, featuring gilt decoration and lettering with five raised bands to the spine. The boards are in very good overall condition. There is some rubbing and bumping to the edges, corners and to the head and tail of the spine. Marbled endpapers. The contents are lightly age toned but otherwise clean. One illustrated page is loose.