54 volumes including several signed bindings: The French Revolution: A History, by Thomas Carlyle, London/New York: J. M. Dent and Sons/E. P. Dutton & Co, 1929, two volumes (complete), signed Riviere & Son bindings polished mottled calf, covers with blindstamped and gilt foliate borders, spines with blindstamped and gilt pictorial decoration, red and brown morocco spine labels, five raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, aeg; Works of Jonathan Swift (Miscellanies; Tale of a Tub; Gulliver's Travels; etc.), London: Charles Bathurst; 1747, 13 volumes, full leather; The Letters and Works of Lady Wortley Montagu, ed. Lord Wharncliffe, London: Richard Bentley, 1837, three volumes complete; Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, four volumes; The Court of the Tuileries, two volumes; Curiosities of Literature and A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature, by I. D'Israeli, six volumes total complete, The Life of Samuel Johnson, six volumes, Thomas Carlyle, A History of His Life in London, two volumes (volumes I & II, spines labelled III & IV), The Miscellaneous Writings of Macaulay, two volumes complete, Louis the Fourteenth and the Court of France, by Miss Pardoe, three volumes complete, The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, signed Riviere & Son binding; The Life and Correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalf, signed Bickers and Son (volume II only), History of England, by Lord Mahon, signed Mansell binding, seven volumes complete, Lorna Doone, by R. D. Blackmore; The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison; Gay's Fables' and Somerville's Chase, by Rev. George Gilfillan
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all with light wear to extremities, scattered scratches, scuffs, and small losses to leather, a few chipped spines, some bumped corners, scattered light staining and areas of light foxing throughout; Swift with some staining to leather, particularly to spines; Memoirs of Napoleon hinges tender, some cracked; Barrie plays hinges cracked; Macaulay with notable flaking and losses at edges