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London: Whittaker and Co., 1848. Nine volumes, complete. Half green morocco leather over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt panels and titles, all edges gilt, engraved title pages. "Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo." (Wikipedia). Showing some expected general overall wear and rubbing, prelims foxed, remains an attractive set in original leather bindings. Size: 12mo. Leather. Very Good.

London: Baldwin & Craddock, 1832 Complete Eighteen-Volume Set of Edgeworth's Tales and Novels as issued by Baldwin & Craddock 1832-33, small octavo, finely bound in contemporary 3/4 blue calf & marbled boards, 2 brown morocco labels per volume, 6 spine compartments separated by 5 raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved additional title pages & frontipieces, nice shape with some slight chipping to ends & edges, boards rubbed here & there in spots, leather title label to volume II (Moral Tales I) has fallen away, handsome bookplate to pastedowns, no markings, pages clean & unfoxed, a very nice complete set, scarce as such; FULL CONTENTS: Castle Rackrent, Essay on Irish Bulls, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification (Vol I); Moral Tales (Vols II - III); Popular Tales (Vols IV - V); Tales of Fashionable Life (Vols VI - X); Belinda (Vols XI - XII); Leonora with Letters on Several Subjects (Vol XIII); Patronage and Comic Dramas (Vol XIV - XVI);… Read More

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1833. Complete in 18 volumes. Books measure 16.5x11.cm. Engraved frontis and title to each volume. Bound in period half morocco, marble boards, raised bands, gilt tooling, full marble edges and endpapers. Morocco rubbed, scuffed on head and tail of spines. All bindings in very good clean firm condition. Internally, some light spotting, browning to frontis and titles. Pages in very giood clean condition. A very nice well bound set. . Half Calf. Very Good. Small 8vo.