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Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1883. 11 vols. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), bound by Hatchards of Piccadilly (stamp-signed in gilt) in full green straight-grain morocco, marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g. Riverside edition, limited to 500 copies of which this is 286. Previous owner's bookplate tipped to front pastedown each volume: Howard Martin Gibbs. Spine uniformly faded to tan; light foxing to preliminaries; minor shelfwear.


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