[Book bindings] Fine set of 1 full vellum and 15 halfvellum book bindings

all with gilt spine and one or more morocco letterpieces, all but one with gilt top edge, one signed Rivière & Sons, England, 1861-1908, small 8vo and 8vo.

Contains 5 parts from the series "The World's Classics" (Thackeray in 2 vols., Borrow, Lamb and Ingoldsby), 4 works by John Ruskin (1 in full vellum with bookplate of Constance Flower), also The Pearl of Orr's Island (...) by Harriet Beecher Stowe (London, 1861, 1st ed.?) and Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson (1907, frontispiece by W. Crane, school prize of the Harrow School to inside front board), and poems by A.L. Gordon, F. Leighton, R.W. Emerson, M. Arnold (bound by Riviere & Son and with pasted mark of Goulden & Curry) and G. Herbert. (total 16)