The majority 19th-century and half bound leather over marbled paper-covered boards, to include: (2) volumes of The British Classics including the eighth volume of The Spectator and the first volume of The Idler (London, 1803 and 1810); one volume of The Plays of William Shakespeare (Edinburgh: Thomas Turnbull, 1804); one volume of The Life of Samuel Johnson... by James Boswell (London: John Murray, 1835); (4) volumes of The Poetical Works of Robert Southey (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1837-38); Trevelyan by [Lady Caroline Lucy Scott] (London: Richard Bentley, 1837); Richard Savage: A Romance of Real Life by Charles Whitehead (London: Richard Bentley, 1845); (2) volumes of What Will He Do With It? by "Pisistratus Caxton" [Edward Bulwer-Lytton] (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859); one volume of The Adventures of Philip... by W. M. Thackeray (Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1862. Copyright ed.); (3) volumes from The Collection of German Authors (Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1867-68. Text in English); (6) volumes of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels (various editions, 1830s-1870s); one volume of St. Katherine's by the Tower by Walter Besant (Leipzig: Heinemann and Balestier, 1891); one volume of Popular British Ballads (London: J. M. Dent & Co.; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1894); David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Biographical ed.).

Largest 7 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.; smallest 5 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.

Generally good to very good condition with typical age wear such as scuffing, toning, and edgewear to boards, rubbing and light cracking at joints, chipping and pealing at spine; pages with toning and occasional foxing, minor damp stain, hinge cracking, and bookplate or writing; (2) with heavier joint cracking, one Waverley Novel in poor condition with interior damage; mostly broken sets; The Plays of William Shakespeare rebacked.