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EDGEWORTH, Maria (1767-1849). Tales and Novels . London: C. Baldwin for Baldwin and Cradock et al., 1832-1833. 18 volumes, 8° (170 x 105mm). Engraved additional titles and frontispieces by F. Bacon, J.W. Cook, T.S. Engleheart, E. Finden, E. Goodall, J. Goodyear, H. Robinson, C. Rolls, and E. Smith after W. Harvey. Late 19th-century blue half crushed morocco gilt by Riviere, the spines gilt in 6 compartments and dated at the foot, the other compartments decorated with pointillée lines and gilt fillets, top edges gilt, others trimmed (extremities lightly rubbed). Second collected edition. Sadleir 785. M. EDGEWORTH. The Life and Letters . Edited by Augustus J.C. Hare. London: R. & R. Clark for Edward Arnold, 1894. 2 volumes, 8° (186 x 120mm). Half-titles. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 78 18th- and 19th-century portraits and views, and plates and title pages from edgeworth's works, after Joshua Reynolds Godfrey Kneller Thomas Lawrence and others, 25 hand-coloured, 2 colour-printed, the majority engraved, some inlaid to size. 32-page publisher's catalogue bound in at the end of volume II. Late 19th-century speckled calf gilt by Riviere and Son, the covers with triple gilt fillet borders, the spines gilt in 6 compartments, contrasting lettering-pieces in 2, dated at the foot, the other compartments decorated with quatrefoils surrounded by pointillée curlicues, turn ins with gilt dentelles, gilt edges (lightly rubbed). Provenance : 'FED' (monogram bookplates on upper pastedowns) (20)