Elegant Extracts: Being A Copious Selection Of Instructive, Moral, And Entertaining Passages, From The Most Eminent Prose Writers / British Poets / Epistolary Writers.

Elegant Extracts.

Verlag: London: John Sharpe / Piccadilly: & R. Jennings, Poultry, [c.1820].

Beschreibung

18 Volumes. 12mo [but bound in 4's]. Full burgundy morocco, gilt, all edges gilt. Fuchsia end papers. A handsome gilt binding with gilt harps on all covers and heavy gilt designs on all volumes. Three sections of six volumes apiece: Prose / Poetry / Epistles. Each volume has an engraved title page at the front, and a second engraved title page midway through (each volume contains two 'books'). This set bears the ownership signature of "Eliza. Teresa Palmer / 1823" on the blank front flyleaf of each volume. Scattered moderate foxing and some offsetting from engravings, a few volumes have minor discoloration to margins; an attractive and clean very good set, with all hinges in good order.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 56095

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Elegant Extracts: Being A Copious Selection Of Instructive, Moral, And Entertaining Passages, From The Most Eminent Prose Writers / British Poets / Epistolary Writers.
• Verlag: London: John Sharpe / Piccadilly: & R. Jennings, Poultry, [c.1820].
• Einband: Hardcover
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