The Rulers of the South: Sicily Calabria Malta 1900 Francis Crawford HC Set POOR

The Macmillan Company, 1900. First edition antiquarian cloth bound hardcover set of The Rulers of the South: Sicily, Calabria, Malta by Francis Marion Crawford.

Illustrated throughout with black and white plates and illustrations in the text.

Crawford chronicles the successive waves of conquest and cultural shifts in the Mediterranean territories of Sicily, Calabria, and Malta from antiquity through the Middle Ages.

Poor condition. Volume 1 binding is broken at page 112 and the page block is separated into 2 pieces. Volume 2 binding is severely creased at page 256 but is not broken. Cloth covers severely worn and chipped. Previous owner markings inside the covers. Interior pages crisp and clean. Flawed reading copies.