£50 - £70
Belles-lettres. Seventeen volumes of Elegant Extracts, comprising volumes I-VI of Elegant Epistles, volumes I-VI of Verse, and volumes I-V of Prose, London: Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, n.d. [1820], some engraved divisional titles, contemporary Regency calf bindings, blind and gilt, varying degrees of wear, marbled endpapers, some volumes with contemporary ownership inscription: G.E. Eyre, 1821, 12mo; Hayley (William), Poems and Plays, five volumes only (of six): volumes I-IV & VI, London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1788, divisional titles, contemporary mottled calf, gilt in the Neoclassical taste, marbled endpapers, 8vo; [&] The Works of Samuel Johnson, nine volumes only (of ten): volumes I-II & IV-X, London: Printed for G. Offor, et al., 1818, volume I portrait frontispiece, contemporary speckled calf, some wear, losses, and the odd board detached, early 20th c pictorial bookplates to each pastedown: E.A. Bennett, 12mo in 6s, (31)
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