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LOT 628
SOLD €380,00

Ten English language vols.: (1) Convolute with 6 rare chapbooks

All published in London, 1803 (1x) and n.d. (5x, ca. 1803), contemp. halfleather, sm. 8vo.

Contents occ. stained ,but otherwise good. Binding worn/ dam. Nice collection of rare titles, comprising: (A) The perilous cavern; or Banditti the Pyrenees (...). London, A. Neil, 1803, 38 pp., 1 engr. plate; (B) The fair wanderer; or The history of Caroline Dormer, a reformed prostitute. Written by herself. London, n.d, 42 pp., 1 engr. plate (dated 1803); (C) Monkcliffe Abbey, a tale of the fifteenth century. By S. Wilkinson (...). London, Kaygill etc., n.d., 42 pp., 1 engr. plate; (D) The hermit of mount Dragon, a Sardinian narrative, and The sufferings of Zimeo, a negro tale. London, J. Ker etc., n.d., 46 p., 1 engr. plate; (E) A tale of terror: or, a spectre without a castle! A gothic Romance (...). London etc., Tegg and Castleman etc., n.d., 40 pp., 1 engr. plate (dated 1803); (F) The preservation of Charles and Isabella, or The force of friendship. By John Corry. London, B. Crosby and Co. etc., n.d., 36 pp., 1 engr. plate (dated 1803). With: (2) Henrietta, countess Osenvor, a sentimental novel in a series of letters to Susannah Fitzroy. By Mr. Treyssac de Vergy (...). London, printed for J. Roson, 1770, 2 parts in 1 vol., IX,(3),227,(1); (4),255 pp., contemp. half calf, gilt spine w. 2 contrast. mor. letterpieces, large 12mo. Library stamp and owner's entry on title, bookplate on upper pastedown. The binding was once part of a larger, uniformly bound series of similar works, our work is complete in itself. -and a nice miniature book (5 x 3 cm) plus complete set of 7 vols with the works of Shakespeare in the Tauchnitz edition of 1843-1844 (nicely bound by N.H. Michell (Amsterdam). (total 10 vols.)

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