Cyclopædia of English Literature. CHAMBERS (Robert).

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A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors from the Earliest to the Present Times.

Woodcuts throughout the text.

Two volumes. Large 8vo. [256 x 174 x 105 mm]. xix, [i], 811, [1] pp; xv, [i], 815, [1] pp. Bound in contemporary half calf, marbled paper sides. The spines divided into six panels by gilt tooled raised bands, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label and numbered in the third on a green goatskin label, the others with centres and corners, marbled endleaves and edges.
Philadephia: [printed in Edinburgh by W & R Chambers for] J. B. Lippincott & Co, [c.1875]

A little light foxing but a fine copy. Library Hub records five Lippincott editions, dated 1856, 1859, 1864, 1867 and 1902-04. This edition is not dated but there is a gift inscription dated 1875 on the front endleaves.

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