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Antique 19th Century Leather-Bound Book Set of 5 Substantial Volumes

Antique 19th Century Leather-Bound Book Set of 5 Substantial Volumes

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This is a beautifully curated five-volume collection of substantial 19th-century antiquarian books with leather bindings. The set showcases a grand variety of publications from the Victorian era. The largest volume in the collection measures 8 by 11 inches and is 3 inches thick, while the smallest volume measures 5.5 by 8 inches.  This collection includes: 

  • The General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1860): Published in Boston by William White. This massive legal tome contains 1,126 pages bound in a full leather cover. The volume remains in great condition for its age.
  • The Great Centennial Exhibition (1876): Written by Phillip T. Sandhurst and others, and published by P.W. Ziegler & Co. This historically significant, heavily illustrated 544-page book commemorates America's centennial. It features a full leather embossed cover in good condition for its age, showing some missing leather on the spine.
  • Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. CXXVI (July-December 1879): Published by the Leonard Scott Publishing Co. (New York). This 782-page compilation of historic literary essays, commentary, and reviews is bound in a half leather cover and remains in great condition.
  • Principios Generales de Literatura é Historia de la Literatura Española (1884): Written by D. Manuel de la Revilla and D. Pedro de Alcántara García, published in Madrid by Librería de Francisco Iravedra. A 19th-century educational textbook and critical reference manual covering the fundamental principles of literary theory alongside a comprehensive historical overview of Spanish literature. This comprehensive 528-page historic volume is bound in a full leather cover in good condition, with the title worn from the spine.
  • The Dolliver Romance, Fanshawe, and Septimius Felton (1891): Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. This elegant 521-page literary volume features a half leather cover and is in fantastic condition.

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