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[UNIVERSITIES]. A pair of works, including: The Harvard Book. A Series of Historical Biographical and Descriptive Sketches. Collected by F.O. Vaille and H.A. Clarke. Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow and Company, 1875. 2 volumes, folio. Numerous engravings, lithographs and heliotypes of Harvard professors and campus buildings; all under tissue. Original publisher’s large grain morocco gilt, top edge gilt (rebacked preserving original spine). FIRST EDITION. –– Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools. Edited by A.C.M. Croome. London: Walter Southwood & Co., 1913–1922. 3 volumes, 4to. Numerous illustrations from photographs. Original publisher’s red morocco with central gilt medallion to upper covers with pictorial inaly, gilt–lettered spines, top edges gilt, others uncut, gilt stamp–signed by Cedric Chivers. FIRST EDITION. –– Together, 2 works in 5 volumes, condition generally very good.