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[Fine Bindings] Shelf of Thirteen Finely Bound Volumes. Comprising of An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England by Thomas Rickman (third edition, half calf over marbled boards, spines elaborately gilt tooled); The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby in 2 vols. (eighteenth edition; three quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt rules and titling in compartments); Ten Thousand A-Year by Samuel Warren in 2 vols. (1854; half polished calf over marbled boards, morocco spine labels in gilt); The Boys Own Book of Natural History by J.G. Woods (first prize award for “general work” at The High School of South Hamstead; schools insignia and title tooled in to front cover, prize label affixed to ffep, prize inscription to verso); Oeuvres de Monsieur de Fontenelle in 3 vols. (1758; full contemporary calf, spines in gilt; frontispiece); The Beauties of Shakespeare (1821; full contemporary calf with gilt borders and cornerspieces, compartments with several fleuron gilt tools); A Tour to Alet and La Grande Chartreuse and A Narrative of Demolition of the Monastery of Port Royal des Champs in 3 vols. (1816; original half calf over marbled boards, spines in gilt). 16mo/8vo. Occasional rubbing to spines or boards; contents generally very good.