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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. The Lover's Tale. C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879, FIRST PUBLISHED ISSUE, INTERLEAVED WITH RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD'S MANUSCRIPT NOTES, half-title, full green morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, slipcase, joints sensitively repaired and boards re-attached--Lamb, Charles. A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret. Printed for Lee and Hurst, 1798, FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE (with London imprint and the title page a cancel), full green morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, some spotting to preliminaries, lacking blanks; together with 288 further volumes, chiefly poetry and prose, 18th - 20th century, including works by Austen, Dickinson, Trollope and Wilde, collected editions of Bryon, Coleridge, Goldsmith, Longfellow, Lowell, Milton, Scott and Thackeray, numerous volumes of poetry and poetry in translation, and later editions of English and American literature, mostly 8vo, various bindings including half calf and original cloth, some wear to bindings, including detached boards on c.20 volumes, spotting and browning, pencil and ink inscriptions to preliminaries of a few volumes (c. 290)