Lot 307

[BINDINGS] -- [BIOGRAPHY] -- [LITERATURE]. A group of 45 volumes, all in full or half leather bindings, including works related to biography and literature, comprising:

Status:

Closed

Estimate: $700 - $900

Estimate$700 – $900

Status

Closed

[BINDINGS] -- [BIOGRAPHY] -- [LITERATURE]. A group of 45 volumes, all in full or half leather bindings, including works related to biography and literature, comprising:

1) BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. L: John Murray, 1839. 10 volumes. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED BY THE ADDITION OF APPROXIMATELY 102 PLATES. 20th-century green morocco gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY MORRELL. "New edition." EXTRA ILLUSTRATED.

2) [BURNS, Robert]. The Works of Robert Burns; With His Life. Allan Cunningham, editor. L: Cochrane and M'Crone, 1834. 8 volumes. Contemporary calf gilt, edges marbled (rebacked). FIRST EDITION.

3, 4, 5 & 6) [VARIOUS AUTHORS]. [The British Classics]. The Spectator. 8 volumes. -- The Guardian. 2 volumes. -- The Tatler. 4 volumes. L: C. Whittingham for John Sharpe, 1803, 1804, 1804. -- The Rambler. 4 volumes. L: W. Suttaby, 1809. Together, 18 volumes (of 34). Uniformly bound in 19th-century half calf gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY HATCHARDS. FIRST EDITIONS.

7) [VARIOUS AUTHORS]. Golden Treasury Series. L: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909-1913. 9 vols. Uniformly bound in polished green calf gilt, edges gilt.

Together, 7 works in 45 volumes, various 8vo and 12mo sizes, all in full or half morocco or calf bindings, condition generally very good.

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