Beschreibung:

Includes: 1) Charles Dickens Sketches by Boz. Chapman and Hall, with eight illustrations, no date, printed by Virtue and Co., 292 pages; 2) John Tyndall. The Forms of Water in Clouds & Riovers, Ice & Glaciers. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1885, ninth edition, 192 pages; 3) Lord Macaulay. Lays of Ancient Rome. Longmans, Green, 1882, new edition, prize binding, 167 pages; 4) Florence Montgomery. Seaforth. Bernard Tauchnitz, 1878, Volume II only, 271 pages, bookplate inside front cover; 5) J. Macgregor. A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on the Rivers and Lakes of Europe. Sampson, Low, Son and Marston, 1866, sixth thousand, with numerous illustrations and a map, prize binding awarded to sculptor William Hamo Thornycroft with his decorated signature on gold leaf; 6) The Life and Remains of Henry Kirke White. T. Nelson and Sons, 1852, long gift inscription, 521 pages; smallest 6"h x 4.25"w, largest: 7"h x 4.75"w
Good, varying amounts of wear to covers, bindings sound, some staining and foxing to pages, most with marbled endpapers, page edges marbled or gilt