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Hardcover. Edition Definitive. 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 5 of 50 for L. Dean Holder and noted as "Edition Definitive" (Printed for the members of the Union Club Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. 1902). Bookplates of Virginia Hawley Holden descendent of the Harriet Beecher Stow family. A series of entertaining biographies for the literary tastes of the time. Frontispieces hand-colored colored with captioned tissue guards in each volume. Wide text margins, interior clean, fresh and perhaps never read. Raised bands decorated in gilt, floral designs surrounded by lacy arabesques. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards and matching endpapers. Teg. Fine. 15 Vols.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condizione: Fine. Limited Edition. Complete 15 volume set; Edition De Luxe, this set numbered 990 of 1,000 copies. Collection of ten literary biographies [see below], beautifully bound in an elegant and refined "arts and crafts" style; contemporary three-quarter green morocco, gilt-decorated spines including floral motifs highlighted in red. Top edges gilt, other edges uncut; green and gold marbled end papers. Richly illustrated with hand-coloured frontispiece plates in each volume and, throughout the set, a further 75 b/w plates with captioned tissue-guards. In fine condition with minimal rubbing to extremities. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. Following the Grolier Society's successful Beaux & Belles of England, this collection of entertaining biographies was published including: Lawrence Sterne, Horace Wallpole, Beau Nash, Fanny Burney, Lady Montagu, Peg Woffington, Mrs Jordan, Colley Ciber and Captain Gronow. A fine set, beautifully bound. Size: Royal 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm). Book.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Astral Edition. Limited edition of 50 copies published ca. 1900. Each volume has blue morocco leather on spines and corners with marbled boards and the same marbled end pages. Spines have five raised bands with four panels decorated with gilt borders and corner rosettes, two panels have gilt borders with gilt printed titles. Illustrations are in color and black and white each with a separate printed (in red) tissue guard. This copy printed and specially bound for Anna L. Lathrop with initials in gilt on each volume on upper leather portion of front panel. Printed on Grolier laid paper with top edge gilt and 2 edges untrimmed. All volumes are/were mis stamped copy 143. Titles in single volumes: Charles James Fox by B. C. Walpole together with the character of Mr. Fox by R. B. Sheridan. Horace Walpole written by himself. Mary Wortley Montagu written by herself. Beau Nash by Oliver Goldsmith together with the Comedy of Beau Nash by Douglas Jerrold and Beau Fielding by Grace and Philip Wharton. Fanny Burney written by herself. Titles in two volumes: Colley Cibber written by himself. Laurence Sterne written by Percy Fitzgerald. Captain Gronow written by himself. The Life and Adventures of Peg Woffington written by herself. Mrs. Jordan by James Boaden. Outstanding set.

20 x 8.5 inches. Condizione: Fine. 20 x 8.5 inches.