Great Achievements of Military Men, Statesmen and Others

Undated but circa 1880.  224, [16]pp.  Decorated green cloth boards with gilt lettering front and spine.  All edges gilt.  Brown endpapers.  12mo.  Cloth moderately rubbed and rounded at corners and ends of a sunned spine, a little dull all over.  Prize presentation plate, dated 1897, on the front paste down, indicating the volume was awarded to one Albert Bradbury.  Stamp on the copyright page (but I can't make out what it says).  Front hinge cracked else internally neat. clean, bright and tight. A selection of essays on eminent statesmen, lawyers, military commanders and artists from British history, staring with William Wallace.