Description

This is a very good hardcover two volume set in the original publisher's decorated dark blue cloth bindings. The bindings and endpapers were designed by Rossetti. The boards are dark blue with bright gilt designs, the endpapers are pale blue with similar designs in light black. The tops of both spines were apparently chipped and repaired professionally at some point with a blue-black cloth. The blue cloth covers are very clean, the gilt designs still very bright. Internally the endpapers have some foxing. Text pages quite clean. There are brief neat signatures from two people in the same family in Leeds, that owned the set at one time, one on each of the title-pages. Also an old booksellers listing for a similar set, clipped probably from an old catalog, is taped on to the inside back cover of volume 1. Edited with preface and notes by William M. Rossetti. 8" high X 5" wide, 528 & 521 pages. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.