Invenire. 12 issues, comprising volume 1.

12 issues bound into one volume; details below. Each retaining their original wraps and each is No. 144 of 150 copies. Each issue initialed by E. M. Goldsmid and hand-numbered. Half morocco, raised bands, ruled and lettered gilt. Library numerals, gilt, to the bottom of the spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. There is wear to the outer hinges and all extremities, with fading of the gilt to the spine. Internally clean and sound; very occasional foxing. Presentation bookplate to front pastedown endpaper. Bookplate of Manchester Reference Library to the front free endpaper. No. 1: Flagellum Parliamentarium; being sarcastic notices of nearly 200 members of the first parliament after the Restoration (A.D. 1661 to A.D. 1678). July 1881. Pp 24. No. 2: A Journey into England in the year MDXCVIII. By Paul Hentzner being a translation of part of his itinerary. Edited by Horace Walpole. August 1881. Pp 16. No. 3: [No. 2 Continued]. September 1881. Pp 16 - 32. No. 4: [No. 2 concluded]. October 1881. Pp 33 - 56. No. 5: A Garland of Old Historical Ballads. 1600 - 1752. I. Marie Hamilton. II. Rob Oig. III. Willy and Mary. November 1881. Pp 20. No. 6: Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Gaelic or Erse language. 1760. Being a reprint of the first Ossianic publication of James Macpherson. December 1881. Pp 16. No. 7: [No. 6 concluded]. January 1882. Pp 17 - 32. No. 8: The Romance of Octavian, Emperor of Rome. Abridged fromt a manuscript in the Boodleian Library by the Rev. J.J. Coneybeare, and edited with additional notes by E. M. Goldsmid. February and March 1882. Pp 32. No. 9 : [No. 8 continued]. April 1882. Pp 33 - 48. No. 10: The Imprisonment and Death of King Charles I. Related by one of his judges. Being extracts from the memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, the regicide, with a collection of original papers relating to the trial of the king. May and June 1882. Pp 32. No. 11: [No. 10 continued]. July 1882. Pp 33 - 48. No. 12: [No. 10 concluded]. August, September, October and November 1882. Pp 49 - 117.…