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CUNNINGHAM, PETER. The Story of Nell Gwynn. London: Privately printed, 1862. LARGE PAPER EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY with numerous engraved plates, mostly portraits and some views (many inlaid to size). 2 volumes, 4to, full blue morocco, covers with gilt-decorated border incorporating overlapping heart shapes, spines in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt-decorated panel incorporating heart motifs in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, morocco doublures and watered silk free endpapges, t.e.g., others uncut, backstrip torn at head of first vol., a little other wear to extremities. With an autograph letter signed from the author laid in. (2)