A lot of five antique books as shown in antique, used condition. All published around 1900.
Goethe's Works, People's Edition: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels from the German. By Thomas Carlyle in two volumes. Copyright 1882. Published by Thomas Y Crowell & Co, New York. The cover cloth is brown with embossed decoration and a gilt title. There is shelf-wear on the lower backstrip with some cloth missing. There is a large white spot on the back cover. The pages are soft and mostly white with mild toning. 387 pages. Size: 7 5/8".
The Days of Bruce by Grace Aguilar. A Story from Scottish History. Published by James Nisbet & Co. Copyright 1895. Overall condition is poor. The cover is discolored with toning beginning with lighter shading at the top cover, transitioning to darker near the bottom. The cover decoration is lightened. There is heavy soiling and sunning on the backstrip and gilt title block is rubbed. There is a large light streak down the center of the back cover. The title page and frontispiece are detached together. The pages are stiff and moderately toned throughout. 472 pages.
Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens. Published by Collins Clear Type Press around 1910 (no date). It has a romantic red cloth cover with art nouveau and floral lines. The cover has some soiling and the backstrip has some sunning. There is a half-inch white spot on the upper backcover. The hinge is fully cracked and detached from the inner spine, falling open. The title page has very heavy toning. The pages are soft with very heavy toning in the margins. There is a frontispiece illustrations. The last two pages have a lot of underlines. There are occasional other light page notations. 702 pages.
The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber. Published by Frederick Warne and Co with steel portrait and illustrations. Likely published around 1880 (no date). A Lansdowne Poet. The cover is bright red with gilt decoration and embossment. The backstrip is sunned and the gilt decoration is fading. There is shelf-wear on the upper backstrip. The back cover is bright red with reverse-embossing. The endpages are brown and good. There is gilt on the foredge. The pages are moderately toned with Victorian red borders. There is heavy foxing on the last page. There are many partial and full page black and white illustrations. 433 pages.
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. An autobiography of a horse. Published around 1900 by Henry Altemus Company ( no date). The cloth cover has an illustration on the cloth of a seascape and a paste-on title on white paper. The cloth is toned on the backstrip and there are tears and fraying on the upper and lower backstrip. The hinges are good. There is a full color frontispiece. The pages are soft with moderate toning throughout and a few additional illustrations. Size: 6.75". 250 pages + advertising.
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