THE LONDON STAGE: A COLLECTION OF THE MOST REPUTED TRAGEDIES, OPERAS, MELO-DRAMAS, FARCES AND INTERLUDES (4 VOL)
London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825. Hardcover. Good + / Good. Item #62518
Four Volume Set. Rebound. 3/4 leather lined in gilt over patterned paper-covered boards with gilt title, five raised bands, and volume number to spine. Previous owner's bookplate to first free endpaper at all volumes except volume one, pages have light to moderate scattered soiling and foxing throughout particularly to margins, and heavy soiling and foxing to front flyleaf, frontispeice and title page. Text block is sunned and foxed. Top edge sprayed gilt, but tarnished. Boards are scuffed and rubbed with bumping, rubbing and chipping to edges, corners and ends of spine. Chipping to paper cover at boards of volume one and two, and cracking to leather along spine particularly to volumes two, three and four. Binding is sound. Inner hinges cracked, but still hold at volumes one, two and three. Front inner hinge cracked and rear inner hinge detached from spine at volume four. Clear plastic dust jackets have moderate to heavy shelf wear.
Price: $400.00