Bindings - Goldsmith, Oliver "A History of the Earth and Ani...

Hammer

£55

Bindings - Goldsmith, Oliver "A History of the Earth and Animated Nature", 2 vols 1852., A. Fullarton & Co. 1952, colour engraved  vignette on half titles portrait frontis, colour plates bound to the back of the volumes, all edges gilt, marble end papers, Vol. 1 plates bound at the rear of the book, Vol. 2 colour plates with tissue guards throughout text, half leather. gilt titles, raised bands but all rather bumped and rubbed, "Leisure Hour 1873 and 1874", half-leather "Sunshine 1885-87", "Milliner's Gallery of Nature", half-leather, "History of Essex", initial pages missing,  bound, full leather, re-backed with contemporary leather laid down, prize binding for Palmer's Grays School, Farrar Frederick W. "St Winifred's or the World of School", London Adam & Charles Black 1908, illustrated by Gordon Browne, school prize plate inside front board, marbled end papers, full maroon morocco with gilt decorations to the backstrip and boards, and another Thackeray, William Makepeace " The Virginians" MacMillan & Co. 1910, school prize plate inside front board, marbled end papers, full red morocco, marbled edges, gilt decorations, gilt dentelles to edges, gilt titles, Dickens, Charles "... David Copperfield ...", MacMillan & Co 1930, full purple leather with gilt titles, backstrip faded and two other volumes  (1 box)