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CASQUET OF LITERATURE 1875 VOL. I-II in 1 Volume Partial Leather Gibbon BLACKIE

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Title: CASQUET OF LITERATURE 1875 VOL. I-II in 1 Volume Partial Leather Gibbon BLACKIE

Description: CASQUET OF LITERATURE VOLS. I & II in one Volume.A Selection of Poetry and Prose From the Works of the Most AdmiredAuthorsEdited with Biographical and Literary Notes by Charles Gibbon.
London, Glasgow & Edinburgh: Blackie & Son Ltd. 1875.Three quarter black leather binding with mottled cloth boards.Five ridged spine with gilt titles and gilt on ridges.BW frontis with tissue guard to each volume.Marbled page edges and endpapers.Leather corners, edges and spine edges worn, slight cracking to upper spine edge of front cover.Tightly bound with clean endpapers with Bound by Blackie & Sons sticker to lower left side of rear endpaper.Lightly tanned unmarked pages.Front free endpaper & following blank page is cracked on inner edge.Stain to lower left side of title page.Pencilled numbers to upper corner of blank page facing rear fep.Good condition.RARE!

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