A very good reading library of standard authors mostly 19th century

including Voltaire, Casanova, Sir Walter Scott, Joseph Conrad, Washington Irving, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Gibbon, George Eliot, Charles Darwin, William Shakespeare, George Meredith, James Fenimore Cooper, Honore de Balzac, Ivan Turgenev, and a set of The British Poets, mostly bound in full or half morocco or calf.  Approximately 711 volumes.

Generally good condition, some binding edges worn, some gilding to edges rubbed, some bindings with covers separated due to age and use. Highlights of the larger sets include: Voltaire (63 vols.); Shakespeare, Chalmers (7 vols.); Waverly Novels (19 vols.); Scott's Novels (47 vols.); Irving's Works (13 vols.); Joseph Conrad (26 vols.); Curtius, History of Greece (5 vols.); Prescott's Works (9 vols.); Memoirs of Jacques Casanova (12 vols.); Ivan Turgenev (5 vols.); British Poets (39 vols.); History of the French Revolution (5 vols.); George Eliot's Works (2 vols.). Please note that all volume counts are approximate.
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