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Description:
Decorative Bindings, Sets, Fifty-six Leather-bound Volumes: Including: Agnes Strickland's The Lives of the Queens of England, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1892, in eight volumes; J.R. Green's A Short History of the English People, London: Macmillan, 1893, in four volumes, bound in half red morocco; Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Walter Crane, London: Macmillan, 1882, in full dark brown morocco by Oldach, gilt extra with onlays and silk endleaves; Thoms's A Collection of Early Prose Romances, London: Pickering, 1828, in three volumes; T. Douglas Murray's Jeanne D'Arc, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902, in half green morocco, and others. (56)
Estimate $300-400
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Agnes Strickland, United Kingdom, Thomas KeightleyJohn Dorfman
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
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