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1874 "The Canterbury Tales and Fairie Queene" and More Antique Books

Item Details

Title and Author/Editor The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene with Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser (Edited by D. Laing Purves, 1874), History of the Johnstown Flood (Willis Fletcher Johnson, 1889), The Works of Daniel Webster: Volumes III and V (1854), Cincinnati: The Queen City 1788-1912: Volumes II and IV (Rev. Charles Frederic Goss, 1912)
Genre Anthologies, History
Illustrator Various
Type of Illustration Various
Binding Cloth on board, Three quarter leather with marbled boards
Dust Jacket No
Edition Statement Later Edition, First Edition
Number of Books 6
Additional Information Four volumes feature marbled text edges and endpapers; one volume features a gilt top text edge.

Condition

- heavy wear to leather binding with material loss, rubbed edges, red rot, soiling and bumped corners; incomplete sets; musty; cracked hinges; dampstains; cocked spines.

Dimensions

10.5" W x 10.5" H x 8.0" D

- measures group.

Item #

ITMG191298

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