Description:

Group of 8 Antique Books, comprising a French Missel; Hawthorne, Nathaniel ' The Marble Fawn', Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Vol. 1 & 2; Giovanni de la Casa, Galateo: or a Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners', London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, M.DCC.LXXIV; Rabaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1897; Joseph Haydn, The Great Musicians edited by Francis Hueffer, by Pauline D. Townsend, London: Samson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1884; F. S. Ellis, 'The History of Reynard the Fox', illustrated by Walter Crane, London: David Nutt, MDCCCXCVII; and Frederick Lewis Allen, The Lords of Creation, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1935.

Measurements: Height: of largest 8 5/8 in. x Width: 6 in. x Depth: 2 in.

Condition:

As is vintage condition, general wear, some toning to pages.

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