A large group of miscellaneous volumes

including Bible in English. [The Holy Bible]. Cambridge: John Field, 1660 [colophon: 1659], Edmund Lodge, Portraits of Illustrous Personages of Great Britain, Vol. I-IV, London, 1821, volumes of Works of Charles Dickens, Boston, Fields, Osgood & Co., 1869 and volumes of Waverly Novels, London, R. Cadell & Company, 1831; mostly leather-bound. Approximately 487 volumes.

With minor abrasions, tears, scuffs, surface dirt to leather, all consistent with age and use. Tooled and gilt leather bindings with some rubbing to gilding in areas. Some further losses to other spines. The bibles - Small losses, cracks and breaks to bindings and spines.
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