[BINDINGS] -- [LITERATURE] -- [HISTORY]. A group of 4 works, most in contemporary full leather bindings, including works related primary to literature and history, comprising:

1) LYTTON, Edward George Earle Bulwer. The Caxtons a Family Picture. Edinburgh and L: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849. 3 volumes. 20th-century brown morocco gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY ZAEHNSDORF. FIRST EDITION.

2) KIPLING, Rudyard. Kim. L: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901. 20th-century red calf gilt, edges gilt. FIRST EDITION.

3) [HAMILTON, Anthony, Count]. Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second. Sir Walter Scott, editor. L: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. Later maroon crushed levant gilt extra, STAMP-SIGNED BY RENÉ AUSSOUR; slipcase. FIRST EDITION.

4) HARRAL, Thomas. Henry the Eighth and George the Fourth. L: C. & H. Baldwyn, 1820. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, sides decorated in blind and gilt with gilt-stamped Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, edges gilt. FIRST EDITION.

Together, 4 works in 6 volumes, various 8vo and 12mo sizes, most in contemporary full morocco or calf bindings, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally very good.

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