A good group of literary and historical works mostly comprising late 19th- and early 20th-century sets in publisher's bindings, mostly 8vo, with some binding wear, a few spines gone or chipped. A representative sample includes: A Century of French Romance [series title], edited by Edmund Gosse, illustrated with plates by Octave Uzanne. Contemporary three-quarter morocco; head of two spines chipped. 12 odd volumes. New York: Appleton, 1902 — [Philip Dormer Stanhope] Earl of Chesterfield. Letters to his Son. Introduction by Oliver H. G. Leigh. 2 volumes. New York: Dingwall-Rock Ltd., 1925. Publisher's cloth; rubbed. — Rossiter Johnson, ed. The Great Events by Famous Historians. [London:] National Alumni, 1905. 20 volumes. Publisher's black or red cloth gilt; worn, some spines gone. — James Russell Lowell. The Writings of ... in Prose and Poetry. 11 volumes [Poems 4 volumes, Literary Essays 7 volumes]. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1899. Publisher's three-quarter calf gilt, top edge gilt. — plus approximately 184 other volumes including works of the English poets, Sir Walter Scott William Shakespeare, and Honore de Balzac. Approximately 300 volumes.
A good group of literary and historical works mostly comprising late 19th- and early 20th-century sets in publisher's bindings, mostly 8vo, with some binding wear, a few spines gone or chipped. A representative sample includes: A Century of French Romance [series title], edited by Edmund Gosse, illustrated with plates by Octave Uzanne. Contemporary three-quarter morocco; head of two spines chipped. 12 odd volumes. New York: Appleton, 1902 — [Philip Dormer Stanhope] Earl of Chesterfield. Letters to his Son. Introduction by Oliver H. G. Leigh. 2 volumes. New York: Dingwall-Rock Ltd., 1925. Publisher's cloth; rubbed. — Rossiter Johnson, ed. The Great Events by Famous Historians. [London:] National Alumni, 1905. 20 volumes. Publisher's black or red cloth gilt; worn, some spines gone. — James Russell Lowell. The Writings of ... in Prose and Poetry. 11 volumes [Poems 4 volumes, Literary Essays 7 volumes]. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1899. Publisher's three-quarter calf gilt, top edge gilt. — plus approximately 184 other volumes including works of the English poets, Sir Walter Scott William Shakespeare, and Honore de Balzac. Approximately 300 volumes.
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