Coloured advertisement for 'Burke's Colonial Gentry'.

Author: 
Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms [Burke's Peerage; English genealogy]
Publication details: 
1890 [1891]. [London.]
£45.00
SKU: 7376

8vo: 1 p. A bifolium (leaf dimensions roughly 270 x 185 mm), on thin wove paper, with the printed page on the recto of the first leaf, the rest being blank. Very good, on lightly aged paper. Attractive item printed in red, blue, black and gold. Text reads 'Vol I in the Press. Burke's Colonial Gentry. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Principal Families residing in the British Colonies by Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms. Author of the Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, The Landed Gentry, Vicissitudes of Families, Reminiscences Ancestral and Anecdotal, &c. &c. This Work will be issued to Subscribers only at the Subscription price of 30/- each Volume. 1890.' 'IN TWO VOLUMES' stamped in small type at head, and 'in the Press' altered to 'now ready' in manuscript, with '1890' altered to '1891'.