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CUNNINGHAM, Peter (1816-69). The Story of Nell Gwyn and the Sayings of Charles II, edited by Henry B. Wheatley, London: W. W. Gibbings, 1892. 8° (242 x 152mm). Half title, engraved frontispiece on india paper, mounted, and 8 plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH APPROXIMATELY 24 ENGRAVED PORTRAITS. Contemporary crushed brown morocco by Howell of Liverpool, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt, wide elaborate dentelles gilt, gilt edges. NUMBER 125 OF 250 COPIES INITIALLED BY THE PUBLISHERS.
With Count Lavalette's Memoirs (London, 1894, number 124 of 125 copies, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED), J. Fitzgerald Molloy's Memoirs of Mary Robinson "Perdita" (London, 1895, number 125 of 125 copies, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED) and Gleeson White's English Illustration 'The Sixties': 1855-79 (London, 1906), all near-uniformly bound in red and blue morocco gilt. (4)
With Count Lavalette's Memoirs (London, 1894, number 124 of 125 copies, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED), J. Fitzgerald Molloy's Memoirs of Mary Robinson "Perdita" (London, 1895, number 125 of 125 copies, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED) and Gleeson White's English Illustration 'The Sixties': 1855-79 (London, 1906), all near-uniformly bound in red and blue morocco gilt. (4)
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