STERNE, LAURENCE. The Works Of Laurence Sterne; InFour Volumes: Containing The Life And Opinions of TristramShandy, Gent.; A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy; Sermons, Letters, Etc. With A Life Of The Author Written By Himself. London: Sharpe and Sons, 1819. Four octavo volumes. Matched bindings of three-quarter brown calf with title panels fo maroon and dark green, gilt lettered. Raised bands and spine ends decorated in gilt. Brown cloth sides. Bound biy Geo.Winstanley of Manchester. Armorial bookplates of Henry Cooke. Text is perfectly clean and tight, however foxing appears on the frontis etchings and versos of volumes one and two. There are no frontispieces in volumes three and four, probably published thusly. Offset from etching on title page of volume one and ink stain on fore-edge of pages 19 to 43, intruding onto margins only of pages 40 to 43. Foxing on pages 68 & 69 of volume 4, otherwise - as mentioned - text is clean. Traces of rubbing on leather. The Works of Frederick Schiller. Translated from the German. Boston: S.E. Cassino and Company., 1884. Illustrated, four volumes, 8 vo. 3/4 tan gilt and tooled leather with marbled covers and matching end papers and paper edging. red and black gilt title inserts. Bumped, chipped, volume two back cover starting at 1". Good.
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