BINDINGS- Mason, William: Poems, in 3 Vols.

York, Blanchard, 1796-97. Cont. full calf and later spines. (19x12.5 cm); SWIFT, Jonathan: The Select Works, in 5 Vols. Embellished with engravings. L, Hector McLean, 1826. (14x9 cm). Cont. Full leather, gilt decoration, gilt inner dentelles & a.e.g. VG; PITT, William: The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of Commons, in 4 Vols. Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1806, 1st. Edn. Cont. Full treecalf. Good set; Boccaccio: The Decameron, in 4 Vols. Bound in 2. L, Sharp, 1822. Frontis portrait. (14x9 cm), Fine full polished calf with gilt decoration & gilt inner dentelles, VG; The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, in 3 Vols. L, Dove, 1826. With a frontispiece & an extra engraved title page in vols. 1 & 3 (missing in vol.2), 13x8 cm. Later full polished calf, the Armorial bookplate of "Thomas Cropper Macaulay" to front pastedown; [Addison, Joseph]: The Tatler, with notes and illustrations, in 3 Vols. L, A Wilson, 1814. (15x9.5 cm), Half leather over marbled boards & matching marbled endpapers, VG; Johnson, Samuel: The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets with Critical Observations, in 4 Vols. 1819. With a frontis portrait. (16x10 cm), Cont. half leather and later gilt decorative spines; The life of Benvenuto Cellini, in 2 Vols. L, Hunt & Clarke, 1828. (15.5x10 cm), later half leather over marbled boards, VG; &, Art nouveau Bindings: Two vols. Clair de Lune, 1923; & Aucassin and Nicolete, nd, ca1920. (14x10 cm), Matching cont. full leather with a peacock in brown and green, to upper covers. (28)

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From the library of Michael Kuczynski