Condition generally very good. Complete list of works in the lot:

1. [HOLTZMAN PRESS]. [Sports Classics]. Evanston, IL: Holtzman Pres, Inc., n.d. 9 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth. EACH SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

2. STODDARD, John L. Lectures. Chicago et al: Geo. L. Shuman & Co., 1921. 14 volumes (including supplement volumes), 8vo. Contemporary half morocco.

3. PROCTER, Adelaide Anne. Legends and Lyrics. L: George Bell and Sons, 1874. 4to. Later morocco-backed boards. “New edition.”

4. SHELLEY, Percy. Poems. L et al: Macmillan and Co., 1894. Later half morocco.

5. DISRAELI, B. Lothair. L: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870. Volume III only (of 3), 8vo. Later half morocco. Seventh edition.

6. TENNYSON, Alfred. The Works. L: Macmillan and Co., 1884. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Provenance: J. Allison Smith (prize inscription and binding); E. Burton (signature, 1920).

7. STODDARD, John L. Lectures. Chicago et al: Geo. L. Shuman & Co., 1925. 15 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth.

8. St. James’s Magazine. L et al: W. Kent and Co., et al, 1864. 7 volumes, 8vo. Later half morocco.

9. WILLMOTT, Robert Aris. Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature. L: Thomas Bosworth, 1854. 8vo. Original cloth rebacked in later morocco. Third edition.

10. DICKENS, Charles. Cricket on the Hearth. L: Bradbury and Evans for the author, 1846. 8mo. Original cloth mounted on modern half morocco.

11. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Works. Boston et al: Houghton Mifflin and Company, [1883]. 15 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth.

12. BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. The Decameron. John Payne, translated. Philadelphia: J.P. Horn & Company, 1928. 2 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary half morocco (hinges reinforced). LIMITED EDITION, one of 1550 sets of the “Certaldo Edition.”

13. BRONTE., Charlotte. Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters. L: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1882. 7 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary half calf (rebacked).

14. WHYTE-MELVILLE, G.J. Songs and Verses. -- Helen’s Babies. L: Chapman and Hall et al, n.d. 2 volumes, 8vo. Bound uniformly in half calf.

15. MILLER, Thomas. Common Wayside Flowers. L et al: George Routledge and Sons, 1880. 4to. Contemporary morocco gilt, stamped with Bristol Grammar School Founded by Robt. Thorne 1536, stamp-signed by Bickers & Son. Provenance: prize inscription, 1883).

16. PIGNOTTI, Lorenzo. Storia Della Toscana. Pisa: Niccolo Capurro, 1815. 12mo. Later half paste-paper boards.

17. MACAULAY. Lord Macaulay’s Essays. L et al: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. 8vo. Provenance: Darwin Arlon? of Iking Edward VI’s School, Macclesfield (bookplate, binding). “Popular edition.”

18. FLETCHER, John. Works. L: R. Lomas, 1806. 5 volumes (of 8), 8vo. 19th-century calf.

19. MEREDITH, George. Works. L: Constable and Company Ltd., 1909. 26 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary half morocco stamp-signed by James Macdonald Co., New York City. Provenance: Marshall Field (bookplates); sold The Monastery Hill Bindery (laid in description). “Memorial edition.”

20. DUMAS, Alexandre. [Works]. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1893. 11 volumes, 8vo. Later half morocco. Provenance: sold The Monastery Hill Bindery (laid in description). “Handy Library Edition.”

21. LAROUSSE, Pierre. Dictionaire. Paris et al: Librairie Larousse, 1899. 12mo. Original cloth rebacked in later morocco. 104th edition.

22. HEWLETT, Maurice. Little Novels of Italy. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1899. 8vo. Later quarter morocco. “Tauchnitz edition.”

23. BESANT, Walter and James RICE. The Ten Years’ Tenant and other Stories. L: Chatto & Windus, 1885. 8vo. Later half morocco. Provenance: Joseph Greene (bookplate). “New edition.”

24. KEIGHTLEY, Thomas. The Fairy Mythology. L: H.G. Bohn, 1860. 8vo. 19th-century polished calf. “A New Edition.”

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[BINDINGS]. A group of 126 volumes, most in fine full, half, or quarter leather bindings, including works relating to American and European lectures, literature and poetry.