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1046. Eight Leather Books on Poetry, Philosophy and Fiction

"Milton's Complete Poetical Works", by William Vaughn Moody, The Cambridge Edition of the Poets, edited by Horace E. Scudder. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1899. Fine, full leather binding with marbled boards, tooled and gilt spine with leather compartment inserts. Gilt edges, 8vo. "On The Improvement of Society by the Diffusion of Knowledge:", by Thomas Dick, LL.D. Glasgow: William Collins, n.d. Illustrated with engravings, 8vo. Embossed leather boards with tooled and gilt edges and spine. "The Scape Goat", by Hall Caine. Leipzig:Heinemann and Balestier, 1891. Copyright edition. 1/2 leather with marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine with raised bands. 12mo. "The Essays of Elia" and "The Last essays of Elia", by Charles Lamb, with an introduction by George E. Woodberry. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1892. In two vols, 12mo. Both with small etching on title page. 3/4 leather with marbled boards, decorated spine. "The Ethics of Dust", by John Ruskin. Kent:George Allen, 1886, fourth edition. 12mo, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, gilt title on spine. "Sesame and Lilies", by John Ruskin. Kent: George Allen, 1889, tenth edition. Red cloth with embossed title on spine, 8vo. "The Works of John Locke, in Nine Volumes" regarding "Some Considerations of the Conseqences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money". London: Longman, Law and son, Johnson, et al, 1794. Fourth volume only. Marbled covers with leather spine with gilt lettering, 8vo.



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