1886-93 Cassell's National Library
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Description
Publishers' Original Binding, With Slipcase
Six volumes from Cassell's pocket library series, published between 1886 and 1893, and featuring the most popular volumes in 'Cassell's National Library' series, issued in 209 weekly volumes, for 3d in paper covers and 6d cloth bound. Edited by Henry Morley. Comprised of:
Housed in the original slipcase.
Richard Steele & Joseph Addison's 'Sir Roger de Covereley' and 'The Spectator's Club';
George Crabbe's 'Poems';
Silvio Pellico's 'My Ten Years' Imprisonment;'
'The Diary of Samuel Pepys' from 1660 to 1661;
Isaac Walton's 'The Complete Angler;'
Marco Polo's 'Voyages and Travels.'
School prize bookplate pasted to lower board slipcase dated 1893, lightly chipped to extremities and soiled. Prize inscription to front free endpaper Marco Polo's 'Voyages' inscribed to Lauren Simmonds from Catherine Street's Evening Classes in 1893
Condition
In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally very smart with light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Minor damp marking to rear board Silvio Pellico's work and Crabbe's 'Poems.' Internally, firmly bound. Odd light minor spotting to odd leaf, pages otherwise generally bright and clean.
Very Good
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