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Washington, [D.C.]: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1905. 4to. 30 plates (including 12 chromolithographs), 82 illustrations to text. xiii, [1], 279, [1] pp. Rebound in later half crimson morocco with remnant of printed wrappers mounted an bound-in; ffep heavily toned and foxed, faint dampstain to top portion of textblock through page 35, offsetting from previoulsy laid-in photograph (of the author as an infant?) on front blank Inscribed on the ffep, "To my beloved father & mother, in grateful recognition of untold obligations, from Henry S. Conrad." Conrad later reinscribed this volume, noting that the first inscription was made in 1905, "To my trusted pupil and friend Dr. Geneva Sayre from Henry S. Conrad Jan. 1945." Dr. Sayre (1911-1992) was a byologist and bibliographer; she studied botany under Conrad at Grinnell College. REFERENCE: Nissen, BBI 392

London: J. Dodsley, et al, 1793. 10 vols. 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Sherwin, and 9 engraved plates after Hogarth, Rooker, Edwards, Tomkins, Benjamin West, et al., marbled paper leaf vol. II, pp. 111-12. xx, [4], 296; [4], 307, [1]; [6], 288; [8], 264; [4], 242; [12], 284; [8], 276; [8], 280; xx, 208; vii, [1], 198 pp. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, red morocco lettering pieces; spines and joints rubbed, occasional toning and foxing, bookplate in each volume Early edition of collected works, first published 1760, includes Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, sermons and letters, and Sterne's brief memoirs written for his daughter. REFERENCE: ESTC T14787

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1922-1924. Centenary Edition. 13 vols. 8vo. Frontispiece to each volume, fold-out maps. Contemporary three-quarters blue morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, raised bands, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E.P. Dutton & Company, New York; some light scuffing to spines, bookplate, previous owner's inscription to flyleaf

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, n.d. [ca. 1880]. Cabinet edition. 20 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarters red morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, raised bands, t.e.g., by R.W. Smith; some scuffing and toning to spines, head of one spine chipped

Houghton Mifflin and Company. Later editions. 8 vols. 8vo. Contemporary orange-brown three-quarter morocco, gilt spines with raised bands, t.e.g., by R.W. Smith; spines toned, occasional light shelfwear and spotting to covers and endpapers, small chip to head of the Professor at the Breakfast-table A set of the works of Oliver Wendell Holmes assembled from later uniform editions of his works published by Houghton Mifflin:The Guardian Angel (1885); Elsie Venner (188-); The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1884); The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1885); Pages from an Old Volume of Life (1884); The Poetical Works (nd); The Professor at the Breakfast-table (1885); Medical Essays (1883)

London: C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, et al, , 1770. 9 vols. 8vo. 24 engraved plates (plate XIII bound out-of-order). [6], 288; [4], 272; [4], 362; [4], 336; 345, [15]; [6], 407, [1]; xxxii, 367, [1]; xi, [1], 280; xv, [1], 372 pp. Contemporary tree calf gilt, spines with red and olive morocco title and volume number onlays; a few headcaps chipped, corners bumped, ink smudge on plate I, worming to gutter in portion of vol. VI, a well-preserved set The Warburton edition of Pope's works, first published in 1751. Joseph Spence records Pope as saying in January 1744, "I *must* make a perfect edition of my works, and then I shall have nothing to do but die." Pope was at work on this edition, with critical notes by his friend William Warburton, when he died several months later.PROVENANCE: Charlotte C. Diemer (bookplate in each vol.); Eton prize bookplate, 1945; William Safire (morocco booklabel)REFERENCE: ESTC T5450

London: Strahan & Co., 1872-1873. 6 vols. 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary blue morocco and marbled boards; some scuffing to spines and rubbing to joints

Edinburgh: G. Hamilton, J. Balfour and L. Hunter and A. Stalker at Glasgow, 1752. First Scots edition of the Works, volume IX ONLY. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 199, [1], [2, errata], [2, ad] pp. Contemporary sheep, red morocco spine label; joints cracked, binding heavily rubbed, title-page toned and soiled, with "Volume IX" designation effaced PROVENANCE: J. Nicol Jr., 1820 (inscription on ffep); George Hume, Esq. (signature on title-page)REFERENCE: Teerink 93