277 lots.

"Catalogue no. 985."

"... containing elegant editions of the works of the most popular authors in special bindings, including Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s autograph edition of Burroughs' works, autograph edition of Emerson, large paper edition of Fiske, autograph editions of Higginson, autograph edition of Stowe, autograph edition of Warner, manuscript edition of Thoreau, large paper edition of American Statesmen, and large paper edition of the Great Classic Poets. Quirinal edition of the literature of Italy, Vinland edition of Norroena, Racinet's Costume, Astral edition of Rousseau's Confessions, Victorian edition of the Drama, Rambouillet edition of Immortals, Joe Jefferson edition of Irving. Works of Balzac, Beaconsfield, Browning, Dickens, Tolstoi, Trollope, Mark Twain, Lytton, Marryatt, Maupassant, Lover, Lowell, Lever, Lamb, Kingsley, Johnson, Jesse, Lady Jackson, Daudet, Doran, Moliere, Motley, Parkman, Poe, Dumas, Dryden, Schiller, Goethe, Scott, Shelley, Stockton, Flaubert, Gautier, Strickland's Queens, Swift, Thackeray, Gibbon, Goldsmith, Hewlett, Haliburton, Grote and Fielding. Rare collection of books illustrated by Cruikshank and Rowlandson, and first editions of the works of Thackeray. Works of Jefferson, Hamilton, Webster, Clay, King, Lincoln, Monroe and Franklin, etc., etc., etc., etc."

McKay, 6586

Place of sale: Philadelphia.

Dates of sale: December 3 and 4, 1908.