First edition edited by J. Payne Collier. Five octavo volumes (8 13/16 x 5 7/8 inches; 224 x 152 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume I. Title-pages printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials.

Twentieth-century three-quarter red morocco over red buckram boards. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. A fine set of this important edition.

Carpenter, p. 114. Lowndes, p 2478.

HBS # 65807 $1,000