Including (6vols) THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, in Twenty-Four Volumes, London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878-79, number 744 of 1,000 copies, crown quarto, bound in full red morocco with gilt decoration, comprising Vols II, V, VI, VIII, IX, and XVIII; (7vols) SWIFT, JONATHAN, The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., with Notes and A Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott, second edition, in 19 volumes, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., 1824, bound in 3/4 leather; (6vols) PLUTARCH'S LIVES, Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Englished by Sir Thomas North, anno 1579, with an Introduction by George Wyndham, London: David Nutt, 1895-96, finely bound in 3/4 leather with gilt spines; and (4vols) EDWARD GIBBON, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, New Edition, in four volumes, Halifax: Milner and Sowerby, 1854, bound in 3/4 leather with gilt spines and marbled boards

Provenance: Private collection, Mount Kisco, NY

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Plutarch and Gibbon in excellent shape; Thackeray and Swift sets lacking numerous volumes; Swifts in excellent shape; Thackerays with wax remnants on boards; 1 detached from binding and with loose rear board; 2 others with loose boards; 1 with chip to top of spine; 1 with abrasions to spine