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ENGLISH BINDINGS]. ENGLAND. LAWS AND STATUTES. POST OFFICE. A Collection of the Statutes now in force relating to the Post Office, London: Printed by Mark Baskett, by the assigns of Robert Baskett 1767, 12mo, 175 x 110 x 19mm. (6 7/8 x 4 5/16 x 3/4in.), contemporary red morocco tooled in gold to a cottage-roof design with three bird tools, a bee and smaller insect tools, flower and vase and other small tools, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, black morocco gilt-lettered label in one, an ornamental panel in the rest; board edges and turn-ins with a broad gilt hatching, marbled endpapers, g.e., top corner of upper cover bruised, slight wear to other corners, tiny chip at foot of upper cover, slight wear to top and bottom of both joints ---The Royal Kalendar...for the Year 1791[--Rider's British Merlin: for...1791], London, n.d., 2 parts in one, 12mo, 157 x 92 x 31mm. (6 3/16 x 3 11/16 x 1 1/4in.), contemporary red morocco tooled in gold, broad border of alternating fern leaf and a wavy strand, corner ornaments of a vase with two bird tools, central panel of a flying bird, musical emblems, a woman carrying a basket on her head, a vase and a swan tool, smooth spine in five compartments, dated 1791 in one, a repeated ornamental panel in the rest, board edges with gilt hatching and encircled stars, marbled endpapers, g.e., a pair of metal clasps, lacks fasteners. (Maxwell) (2)