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137 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 1014. Bindings: Poe (E. Allan) - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. E. Clarence Stedman, & Geo. Ed. Woodberry, 10 vols. roy 8vo New York (Charles Scribner’s Sons) 1894 - 95 Portraits & plates, unopened, t.e.g., cont. hf. blue mor. raised bands, four panels tooled gilt, & two gilt lettered panels. V. good set; also Ingram (John H.) ed. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, 4 vols. 8vo Lond. (A. & Co. Black) 1899. Hf. titles, port. & illus. t.e.g., later hf. dark blue mor. spine gilt decor. in six panels divided by raised bands. V. good. (14) €600 - €800 1015. Bindings: Bronte - Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters, 7 vols. 8vo London (Smith, Elder & Co.) 1883. Engd. port. frontis, decor. titles & illus. plts., cont. tan calf, gilt spines, raised bands & mor. labels. Good set. (7) €750 - €1000 1016. Bindings: Wilde (Oscar) [Collected Works] Edited by Robert Ross, 15 vols. roy 8vo London (Methuen & Co.) 1908. Limited Edition, 1000 Copies Only. T.e.g., later attractive crushed hf. green mor., raised bands, spine gilt in 5 compartments, sixth compartment with gilt lettered mor. labels, green marble sides. Exquisite set. (15) €2000 - €3000 1017. Attractive Uniform Set Bindings: Pope (Alexander) The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose, 10 vols. roy 8vo Lond. (Printed for J. Johnson, J. Nichols & Son...) 1806. Ed. by Rev. W. Lisle Bowles. Portraits and plates, half titles; plus Pope (Alex) The Iliad of Homer, 5 vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1806. New Edn., hf. titles, end. port. frontis Vol. I; and, The Odyssey of Homer, 4 vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1806. Both ed. by Gilbert Wakefield, hf. titles. Together 19 vols. All uniform recent calf backed marble boards, raised bands, gilt decoration, with red and black mor. labels. V. good. (19) €700 - €900 1018. Bindings: Swift - The Works of Jonathan Swift D.D. Dean of St. Patricks, Dublin, Accurately revised in Six Volumes, Vols. 1 - 6, in 12 parts, plus Vols. 7, 8, & 9, in 6 parts Edited, etc. by John Hawkesworth & Deane Swift. Together 9 vols. 4to Lond. (For C. Athurst, C. Davis, C. Hitch,.. andW. Bowyer) 1755-1775., red & bl. titles, and engraved plates, recent attractive calf backed marble boards, raised bands and profusely gilt spines. Good. (1) €1250 - €1750 1019. Bindings: Holmes (Oliver Wendell) The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 13 vols. & Life and Letters, 2 vols. together 15 vols. uniform roy 8vo Boston & New York Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (Riverside Press) 1892. Artists Edition, Limited, No. 733 of 750 copies with port. & illus. plts. thro.-out, uncut, t.e..g. In cont. full crushed crimson mor., gilt dble. gilt fillets outside center gilt tooled panels with corner decorations, with silk backed loose ends & inset green crushed mor. pastedowns, raised bands, and profusely tooled gilt panels. V. good set. (15) €700 - €1000 1017 1018 1015 1019 1016 1014