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[COLOR-PLATES]. Group of Eight Illustrated Books. [V.p., ca. 19th–20th century]. Includes: Two illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Including The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by George Herbert Palmer. (1929). 4to. Red cloth boards with pictorial cover and gilt letter spine. [And] LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Courtship of Miles Standish. Tercentenary Edition. (1920). Cambridge, Boston, and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Publisher’s boards with pictorial cover. — Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London: George G. Harrap & Co., [n.d.] Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. — Lives of Great and Celebrated Characters, of All Ages and Countries […] and Other Curiosities of Human Nature. New York: World Publishing House, 1876. — WALPOLE, Horace. Constable’s Edition of The Castle of Otranto and the Mysterious Mother. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1924. LIMITED EDITION, 1 of only 550 copies printed at the Chiswick Press. Illustrated with color plates. Considered to be one of the first gothic novels. — MCCUTCHEON, George Barr. The Day of the Dog. New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1904. Illustrated by Harrison Fisher. — STROTHER, D.H. Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. Illustrated from drawings by Porte Crayon. Attractive later binding. —ROBINSON, Charles N. Old Naval Prints Their Artists & Engravers. London: The Studio, Limited, 1924. Limited edition number 452/1000. — 8vo and 4to. Leather, cloth, pictorial, and marbled boards. VARIOUS EDITIONS. Condition varies. Worn with soiling, rubbing, ownership marks, toning, or loose pages. Generally good or better.