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[Limitation statement]: "The large paper edition of this volume consisting of fifty copies, all of which are numbered and signed, was printed in December, 1885. This is No. 36 [signed] Charles Whittingham & Co." Size of binding: 6 3/4 in. x 9 3/4 in. x 1 3/4 in (thick), signed limitation page; [i]-xlvi (including contents & introductory essay), [1]-367 pp., finely printed on laid, watermarked paper: JW [Whatman]. Bound in full, red morocco leather, with five raised bands on the spine, gilt titling, and floral designs gilt in compartments, double-line borders gilt on covers, with gold-embossed monogram, with titlings: Annesley Hall Brighton + Fide Parta Fide Aucta, in banners above & below the monogram. Gilt dentelles on leather turn-ins; headbands, top-edge gilt; dark brown, blue & gold marbled endpapers. Presentation in ink on the front of the first blank flyleaf: "Minnie Sharp-With much love from Mrs. & Miss Hebb. April 13th 1892. Annesley Hall Brighton." This appears to be a specially bound copy, possibly given as a prize book. Former owner's printed book label pasted to the front marbled paper paste-down. Light edge wear, rubbing to cover corners; a few age-related tan spots to flyleaves. Overall, a fine copy, and a well-preserved example of a presentation or prize binding. The scan shows the spine & front cover. Weight: 3 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item. Authors representated (with short notices by Saintsbury): Malory, Hugh Latimer, Thomas Elyot, Ascham, Raleigh, Spenser, Sidney, Richard Hooker, Lyly, Bacon, Jonson, Burton, Edward Herbert, Hobbes, Izaac Walton, William Chillingworth, Thomas Browne, Thomas Fuller, Edward Hyde, Milton, Jeremy Taylor, Henry More, Richard Baxter, Cowley, Evelyn, Algernon Sidney, Bunyan, William Temple, George Saville, Dryden, Locke, Robert South, Aphra Behn, Gilbert Burnet, Charles Leslie, Defoe, Richard Bentley, Swift, Steele, Addison, Bolingbroke, Conyers Middleton, Berkeley, Pope, Richardson, Mary Wortley Montagu, Joseph Butler, Chesterfield, Robert Paltock, Fielding, Johnson, Hume, Sterne, Thomas Gray, Walpole, Gilbert White, Smollett, Adam Smith, Joshua Reynolds, Goldsmith, Burke, Gibbon, Boswell, Philip Francis, William Paley, Thomas Holcroft, Henry Mackenzie, Frances Burney, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Cobbett, Ann Radcliffe, Robert Hall, James Mackintosh, Maria Edgeworth, Scott, Sydney Smith, Coleridge, Southey, Jane Austen, Lamb, Landor, Henry Hallam, Hazlitt, Thomas Moore, John Wilson, De Quincey, William F. P. Napier, Mary Russell Mitford, T. L. Peacock, Henry H. Milman, P. B. Shelley, Edward Irving, John G. Lockhart, Carlyle, Macaulay. Seller Inventory # ABE-530116219
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