A large group of miscellaneous volumes

including The Works of Théophile Gautier, Vol. 1-24, The Jenson Society, 1906. James Anthony Froude, History of England, Vol. I-XII, London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1870, and J.R. Green, A Short History of the English People, Vol. I-III, Macmillan and Co., London, 1892; mostly leather-bound. Approximately 390  volumes. 

With signs of age and normal wear. With minor abrasions, tears, scuff and surface dirt to leather, all consistent with age and use, not extensive. Tooled and gilt leather bindings with some rubbing to gilding in areas. Some further losses to other spines.
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