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£100 - £200

Library of Entertaining Knowledge (8 Vols) Half leather. Various subjects and publishing years from 1833 onwards.
All with brown leather spines and corners. Titles in gilt on spine panels. Spines complete apart from two volumes showing loss. Spine ends mildly scuffed.Paste-down pebble paper boards. Edges and corners lightly scuffed. Pages all clean and tight with minimal light ageing to all. All published by Charles Knight, Titles are: The British Museum, Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles Vol II.(1833), History of British Costume (1834), The Faculties of Birds (1835), The Backwoods of Canada (1836), Criminal Trials Vol II, The Gunpowder Plot (1835), The British Museum, The Townley Gallery Volume 1 (1836), The Hindoos Volume I (1834) Historical Parallels Volume II (1835)

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All with brown leather spines and corners. Titles in gilt on spine panels. Spines complete apart from two volumes showing loss. Spine ends mildly scuffed.Paste-down pebble paper boards. Edges and corners lightly scuffed. Pages all clean and tight with minimal light ageing to all. All published by Charles Knight, Titles are: The British Museum, Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles Vol II.(1833), History of British Costume (1834), The Faculties of Birds (1835), The Backwoods of Canada (1836), Criminal Trials Vol II, The Gunpowder Plot (1835), The British Museum, The Townley Gallery Volume 1 (1836), The Hindoos Volume I (1834) Historical Parallels Volume II (1835)
This lot is part of the collection that came from one of the oldest aristocratic families in British history.