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J. J. Rousseau. ELOISA: OR, A SERIES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS. 4 vols. (complete). Dublin: Printed for Peter Wilson, 1767. Fifth edition. Text in English, translated from the French. Speckled leather with gilt-stamped spines and gilt-titled red and green morocco labels, all edges and endpapers light green. 12mo; 242; 260; 266; 232pp. ESTC T185990. (Boards with areas of rubbing and losses to leather, with edgewear and corners bumped and rubbed; joints with light creasing, (2) volumes with cracking at joints; spines with chipping, one with crack and one with residue and significant wear at head; interiors with light scattered foxing and occasional writing, grime, and small edge chip; vol. 2 with pgs. 249-252 partly detached; overall pages extremely bright.)
Alexander Pope. THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ. Vols. 1-4, 6 (5 of 6 total volumes). London: Printed for C. Bathurst, J. Rivington & Sons, et al., 1788 (volumes 2-4 dated 1787). Tree calf, with gilt-ruled spine with gilt-titled red morocco labels, all edges speckled. 12mo; 317; 360; 292; 314; 366pp. (3) volumes with plates. ESTC T5459. (Boards scuffed and rubbed, spines creased with rubbed ends and leather loss to vol. 6 at head, joints rubbed; bookplate and writing on paste-downs, vol. 1 with a free endpaper removed; interior with toning, offsetting, and scattered foxing, with an occasional mark or grime, with pages overall quite clean; occasional corner loss, vol. 6 with significant loss to pages 359-366.)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; T. Smollett, trans. THE ADVENTURES OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. 4 vols. (complete). Glasgow: Chapman & Lang, 1803. Text in English, translated from the original Spanish. Half leather over marbled paper-covered boards, rebacked in gilt-stamped polished calf with raised bands and gilt-titled red morocco label, edges and endpapers marbled. 8vo; xviii, [2], 282; 297, [1]; 329; 311, [1]pp. Each volume with frontispiece. (Scuffing and discoloration to boards with edgewear and rubbed corners; all volumes with ownership signature and book plate on free endpaper verso, occasional free endpaper lacking; interior with mild toning, expected offsetting, foxing mostly concentrated at endpapers and frontispieces, with occasional grime, writing, small stain, or minor tear; overall pages clean and bright.)
6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in. each; 7 x 4 1/2 in. each; 8 5/8 x 5 5/8 in. each