Autobiography A Collection Of Lives 1826. Leather SET of 8 Books

  

A Collection of the Most Instructive & Amusing Lives. Autobiography A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published Written by The Diarists Themselves. Gilt tooling to covers and spines. Hunt and Clarke, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. Set is incomplete should be Volumes I to XXIV, However, only 8 books are included here.

II Hume, William Lilly (astronomy). III & IV Jean-François Marmontel (history, opera, poetry, novels). V Robert Drury (sailor, Madagascar captive). VI George Whitefield (Methodist), Voyage from London to Savannah. James Ferguson (astronomer, instrument and globe maker).

VIII Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Prince Eugene of Savoy. IX Augustus Von Kotzebue (dramatist, writer, Siberian exile). Covers in overall good condition for books 199 years old. Some loss of the leather to edges of the covers and top and bottom of the spines (see photos).

Titles on spine mostly worn away as are gilt bands. All covers still firmly attached and binding good, no loose pages. Books are clean and unmarked ie no inscriptions, annotations etc.

Some browning / foxing to endpapers and early pages. Frontispiece and title page also foxed / browned with age. A couple of light foxing spots / brown marks to a small number of pages but overall main text blocks good in this regard. We will respond to you within 24 hours and do our best to help you. All items are guaranteed to be as described / seen in the listing.

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