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[PRAYER BOOK]. The Book of Common Prayer.... Oxford, 1745. 8vo, contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt, covers gilt with Crucifixion scene in center surrounded by concentric circles of citron and dark blue morocco onlay, further surrounded by a large gilt circle tooled with gilt tongues and other small tools , g.e., with FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF A GROTESQUE: A VASE FILLED WITH FRUIT SURMOUNTED BY A PARROT, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, joints and corners worn and repaired; minor browning and staining; red half morocco folding slipcase. Selden, bookplate; Lynde Selden, book label -- SCOTT, Sir WALTER. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. London, 1806. 8vo, contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e., with A FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF SCOTT'S BIRTHPLACE, NEAR EDINBURGH, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, slight wear to joints; minor browning and staining. Charles Bery Caldwell, New Grange, County Meath, bookplate; Selden, bookplate; Lynde Selden, book label -- KIPLING, RUDYARD. Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black & White -- Plain Tales from the Hills. Both London, 1926. Two works in one volume, small 8vo, straight-grained maroon morocco gilt, g.e. by RIVIERE, with A FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF A VIEW NEAR TONK IN RAJASTHAN, turn-ins gilt, slight wear; slight browning. Albert Henry Wiggin, bookplate; Selden, bookplate. (3)
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Estimate should read $1000-1500.