Physical description

Leather bound black spine and cover corners with green cloth-covered board covers.
Gold lettering and gold graphics on spine. Set contains volumes I-XXV, catalogued as 438.1 - 438.25.
Vol I: Egypt & Mesopotamia (438.1);
Vol II: Israel-Persia India-Pheonicia Asia-Minor (438.2);
Vol III: Greece to the Peloponnesian War (438.3);
Vol IV: Greece to the Roman Conquest (438.4);
Vol V: The Roman Republic (438.5);
Vol VI: Early Roman Empire (438.6);
Vol VII: The Later Roman (438.7);
Vol VIII: Arabs Crusades Papacy (438.8);
Vol IX: Italy (438.9);
Vol XI: France 843-1715 (438.11);
Vol XII: France 1715-1815 (438.12);
Vol XIII: France since 1815. Netherlands (438.13);
Vol XIV: Netherlands. Germany (438.14);
Vol XV: Germany (continued) (438.15);
Vol. XXIII. The United States. Spanish America (438.23);
Vol. XXIV. Turkey. Minor Eastern States. China. Japan (438.24).

Inscriptions & markings

Front: Presented to Public Library, Portland by James Long, J.P., Mayor June 1909 (label on inside of front cover)
Reg. No. 5.25 (inside cover, pencil)