A GROUP OF FIVE ENGLISH AND FRENCH LEATHER/CLOTH BOUND VOLUMES, 19TH CENTURY, comprising a Centenary Edition, "Woodstock or The Cavalier: A TALE OF THE YEAR SIXTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE," by Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1871, cloth boards, 503 pages, 8 1/4" x 5 1/2"; a twelve page front/back leather bound volume with gilt brass clasp and bosses by Jenner & Knewstub, 33 St. James's St, containing mid 19th century monograms of royalty, nobility, and various people of note, some with hand inscribed name, gilt edged pages, 9" x 6 1/2"; a waxed cloth covered volume of "The WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE," Bliss Sands & Co., London, 1896, Printed by Neill and Co, Edinburgh, 1,099 rag edged pages, 10 5/8" x 7 5/8"; a leather bound volume "LA PLANÈTE MARS ET SES CONDITIONS D'HABITABILITÉ.," by Camille Flammarion, Tome 1, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1892, 608 pages, 10 7/8" x 8"; and another selection. (5)

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