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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin/ Riverside Press. Complete in 3 vols. divided into 6 vols. Quarto. All six vols. attractively bound in flexible leather with gilt lettering. All edges gilt. Vols. 1 and II dated 1880, Vol. 3 dated 1883. Very slight wear at the head and foot of the spines, chip on the outer edge of the front free endpaper of the first volume of Volume II, front free endpaper of the second volume of Volume III detached, otherwise Very Good Plus. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1880.

Cambridge and Boston, MA: The Riverside Press for Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883. Book. VG+. Full-Leather. First Thus. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Complete in three (3) volumes, comprised by Poetical Works (I + II) and Complete Prose Work/Later Poems, issued 1881-83, uniformly bound in full dark brown morocco, embossed decoration in black, lettered in gilt, (5) raised spine bands with (6) decorated spine compartments, beveled edges with gilt-dentilled inner edges, text blocks edged in gilt, marbled endpapers. A notably well-preserved set, much better than typically found, showing modest rubbing along joints and raised bands, some corners rubbed with minor exposure, small chip of loss at heel of Vol. II joint. Front flyleaf of Vol. I shows slight loss along lower fore-edge, of Vol. II shows tape repair to closed tear. xvi,488 + xvi,489-928 + viii,929-1408 pp., copiously illustrated with fronts. portraits and several hundred engravings by noted artists of the era, ranging from full- and… Read More