Including:
Thanet, Octave (ed.): The Best Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1890
McMahan, Anna B. (ed.): The Best Letters of William Cowper - A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1893
Hughson, Shirley Carter (ed.): The Best Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley - A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1892
Stanhope, Philip Dormer: The Best Letters of Lord Chesterfield - A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1893
McMahan, Anna B. (ed.): The Best Letters of Horace Walpole - A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1890
Johnson, Edward Gilpin (ed.):The Best Letters of Charles Lamb - A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1898
Ainger, Alfred (ed.): The Essays of Elia - Macmillan & Co., New York, 1903
Lamb, Charles & Mary: Tales from Shakespeare - Macmillan & Co., New York, 1903
Lamb, Charles: Poems, Plays, and Miscellaneous Essays - Macmillan & Co., New York, 1902
Ainger, Alfred: Charles Lamb - Macmillan & Co., New York, 1901
Ainger, Alfred (ed.): The Letters of Charles Lamb, in two volumes - Macmillan & Co., New York, 1904
Lord Wharncliffe (ed): The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, in three volumes - Richard Bentley, London, 1837
Gibbon, Edward: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volumes I, II, and V - Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, c. 1902
McMaster, John Bach: A History of the People of the United States, in eight volumes - D. Appleton & Co., New York & London, 1916
Clough, A. H. (ed.): Plutarch's Lives, in five volumes - Little, Brown, & Co., Boston, 1885
Russell, William: The History of Modern Europe, in four volumes - Longman, Brown & Co., London, 1850
Green, J. R.: A Short History of the English People, illustrated edition, in four volumes - Bigelow, Brown, & Co., New York, 1892
Mackenzie, Henry: The Works of Henry Mackenzie, Esq. with a Sketch of His Life - J. F. Dove, London, 1826
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, centenary edition, in twelve volumes - Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston & New York, 1903
Southey, Robert: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey with a Memoir of the Author, in ten volumes - Little, Brown, & Co., Boston, 1860
The largest 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (62).
Condition
Individual condition reports not available for this lot. Three of 'The Best Letters' with damage to the spine, resulting in a separated cover or back cover. The first volume of Lady Montagu's letters with a front cover separated from the spine. All with wear consistent with age and use.
Notwithstanding this report or any discussion concerning condition of a lot, all lots are offered and sold "as is" in accordance with our conditions of sale.
