Elegant Extracts in Prose [and] Poetry Selected for The Improvment of Young Persons. Four Volumes in Matching Leather Bindings


Author: Various.
Illustrator: With Three Engraved Title Pages; Lacking One
Edition: Unknown
Price: £35




Description:

Published in 1816 by F. C. and J. Rivington and Others, in London.
Seller notes: PAGES: vol. 1- Engraved title-page, xvi, (8) contents, 1- 496; vol. 2- (No Engraved Title-page & lacking one leaf:497/98 ) 499 - 1035; Vol. 3- xvi n(including Engraved title-page & contents), 1 - 592; Vol. 4- Engraved title-page, 593 - 1064. BINDING: The four volumes are bound in matching leather. with gilt ruling and lettering to spines and gilt lettered label. CONDITION: The bookplate of Walter Hill, Kensington House to front pastedown of each volume; lacking one the engraved title-page of volume 2 and the first leaf of text 497/98; the engraved title-page of vol. 3 has a piece missing from the middle, an ink inscription to front blank endpaper ov vol. 4, occasional light foxing and browning; an attractive binding.



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