A Collection of 10 Uniformly Bound Books by Bumpus with Matching Bookends.
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Contains the works of Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies; Boswell's Life of Johnson in three volumes; The Collected Essays of Charles Lamb in two volumes; The Oxford Books of English Prose and Verse.
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Provenance:
Bindings and bookends contain the signature "R. & T. S." with the date 1937.
Condition:
Very minor scuffing, rubbing, and superficial scratches to spines. Sporadic and minor marks on spines. All boards securely attached with very minor wear to joints and hinges. Boards with prominent damp stains and sunning. Very minor shelf and edge wear. Endpapers foxed with very minor damp stains. The works of Shakespeare have more prominent damp stains to leaves, primarily to the first few and last few leaves, with some foxing. Text blocks fairly clean with very minor toning and very sporadic very minor foxing; some leaves having damp stains to edges.
Bookends with scuffing and scratches. Darker discolouration to one bookend. Binder's stamp in gilt to the bottom sides of the bookends.
