three-19th-century-leatherbound-books
Lot 270
Three 19th Century Leatherbound Books
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To include: The Poetical Works of Walter Scott (Edinburgh: A. C. Black, 1857), small 8vo (7-3/4 in.), full calf with gilt embellishments, the boards embossed with the gilt arms of the nearly 500 year-old Highgate School in London (shelf wear manifesting as minor edge losses to the calf); plus...The Works of William Shakespeare...with a Glossary and Notes and a Memoir by Alexander Chalmers, A.M. (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1853), illustrated with steel engravings, three-quarter leather over marbled boards, with gilt title plate on spine, 4to (9-1/2 in.) (wear to boards); plus...The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1879), three-quarter leather over marbled boards, with gilt, small 4to (9-1/4 in.) (wear to boards).