Title: Eight finely bound volumes of literature Author: ** Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Includes: Scott, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works. 665 pp. 6½x4, full red morocco, blindstamped border to covers, gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt and gauffered. 1866 inscription on front free endpaper. William P. Nimmo, 1865. * Cowper, William. Poems...to Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the author by John M'Dairmid. 514, 2 ad pp. 5½x3, full green morocco, covers and spine tooled in gilt with red gilt onlays, all edges gilt. 1844 inscription on front free fly leaf. 6th Edition. Oliver & Boyd, 1838. * Whittier, John Greenleaf. The Poetical Works. 574 pp. 5¾x4, full tree calf re-backed with original gilt spine, all edges gilt. Houghton, [1888]. * Theatre de Corneille. 353, [2] pp. 6½x4, full tree calf, gilt spine with gilt-lettered morocco spine label, all edges gilt. Prize binding with gilt vignette on front cover and 1918 award label on front pastedown from the Upper Canada College. Bibliotheque Hachette, n.d. * Donne, John. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose. Edited by John Hayward. 794 pp. 7½x4½, half calf with boards, gilt spine with morocco spine label, top edge gilt. Second Impression. Nonesuch Press, 1929. * The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Etched frontispiece portrait plate. 380 pp. 7¼x4½, full green morocco, gilt-lettered spine, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Spine faded to brown. New Edition in One Volume. Ellis and Elvey, 1898. * Gray, Thomas. Poems. Gravure plates. 164 pp. 10¼x7, full tan calf, gilt-lettered morocco spine label, gold-stamped vignette and borders on covers, all edges gilt. Manuscript writing on presentation leaf(?) at front. Eton College Press, 1902. * The Works of William Shakespeare: Gathered into One Volume. 1263 pp. 9½x6¼, half morocco and cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. Shakespeare Head Press, 1934. Together 8 volumes. Lot Amendments Condition: A few with mild shelf wear and rubbing to extremities; most are near fine. Item number: 208816
Title: Eight finely bound volumes of literature Author: ** Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Includes: Scott, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works. 665 pp. 6½x4, full red morocco, blindstamped border to covers, gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt and gauffered. 1866 inscription on front free endpaper. William P. Nimmo, 1865. * Cowper, William. Poems...to Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the author by John M'Dairmid. 514, 2 ad pp. 5½x3, full green morocco, covers and spine tooled in gilt with red gilt onlays, all edges gilt. 1844 inscription on front free fly leaf. 6th Edition. Oliver & Boyd, 1838. * Whittier, John Greenleaf. The Poetical Works. 574 pp. 5¾x4, full tree calf re-backed with original gilt spine, all edges gilt. Houghton, [1888]. * Theatre de Corneille. 353, [2] pp. 6½x4, full tree calf, gilt spine with gilt-lettered morocco spine label, all edges gilt. Prize binding with gilt vignette on front cover and 1918 award label on front pastedown from the Upper Canada College. Bibliotheque Hachette, n.d. * Donne, John. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose. Edited by John Hayward. 794 pp. 7½x4½, half calf with boards, gilt spine with morocco spine label, top edge gilt. Second Impression. Nonesuch Press, 1929. * The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Etched frontispiece portrait plate. 380 pp. 7¼x4½, full green morocco, gilt-lettered spine, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Spine faded to brown. New Edition in One Volume. Ellis and Elvey, 1898. * Gray, Thomas. Poems. Gravure plates. 164 pp. 10¼x7, full tan calf, gilt-lettered morocco spine label, gold-stamped vignette and borders on covers, all edges gilt. Manuscript writing on presentation leaf(?) at front. Eton College Press, 1902. * The Works of William Shakespeare: Gathered into One Volume. 1263 pp. 9½x6¼, half morocco and cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. Shakespeare Head Press, 1934. Together 8 volumes. Lot Amendments Condition: A few with mild shelf wear and rubbing to extremities; most are near fine. Item number: 208816
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