(Bindings, Literature), a collection of 33 volumes, includin...

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(Bindings, Literature), a collection of 33 volumes, including 'The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser', edited Alexander Grosart, [Manchester], Printed for the Spenser society [by Hazell, Watson, and Viney], 1882-84, limited edition (100 copies only), 9 volumes (all published, stated in 10 volumes, but volume 10 never published), handsomely rebound quarter morocco gilt; Samuel Butler: 'Hudibras', L, T. Bensley, 1801, 2 volumes, engraved frontispieces and vignettes as called for, uniform quarter brown morocco gilt; Washington Irving: 'A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus', L, John Murray, 1828, 4 volumes, uniform contemporary calf gilt, smartly later rebacked; Maria Edgeworth: 'Popular Tales', 1817, 6th edition, 3 volumes, uniform rebound quarter morocco gilt over marbled paper covered boards; Samuel Johnson: 'Rasselas', L, Hector M'Lean, 1819, full page and in text engravings by A. Raimbach, 4to, rebound quarter morocco gilt over marbled paper covered boards; Edmund Spenser: 'The Legend of the Knight of the Red Crosse or of Holinesse. The first book of Spenser's Faerie Queene illustrated with twelve drawings by C. M. B. Morrell.', L, Sampson Low, 1871, vi,220pp, a/f, lacks title page, a few text leaves and all plates supplied in facsimile, 4to, full contemporary vellum gilt by Birdsall & Son Northampton, all edges gilt, gilt patterned end papers and paste downs; plus 13 others including Gay's Fables, Sterne's Works, Wordsworth, Thomson, Oliver GOldsmith etc (33)