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MUSSET, ALFRED DE. The Complete Writings. New York: Edwin C. Hill Company 1905. 10 vols., 8vo, publisher's red crushed levant morocco, covers with double gilt fillet border, small cream onlaid morocco fleur-de-lys cornerpieces, spines in four compartments, cream onlaid morocco floral ornament in one, two gilt-lettered, the fourth with gilt fleurs-de-lys and fleuron, gray morocco doublures with gilt and onlaid red morocco flowering plant border and central ornament, dark red silk liners, t.e.g., others uncut, gilt-stamped "Edwin C. Hill Company" on upper doublures, occasional rubbing to raised bands, joints and extremities of spines. LIMITED EDITION, no. 20 of 58 copies on Japanese vellum, various translators, engraved ornamental general titles printed in green, volume titles in red and black, frontispieces and plates by M. Bida, Henri Pille and others, in two states (on Japanese vellum and either colored or on mounted China paper), lettered tissue guards. (10)

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MUSSET, ALFRED DE. The Complete Writings. New York: Edwin C. Hill Company 1905. 10 vols., 8vo, publisher's red crushed levant morocco, covers with double gilt fillet border, small cream onlaid morocco fleur-de-lys cornerpieces, spines in four compartments, cream onlaid morocco floral ornament in one, two gilt-lettered, the fourth with gilt fleurs-de-lys and fleuron, gray morocco doublures with gilt and onlaid red morocco flowering plant border and central ornament, dark red silk liners, t.e.g., others uncut, gilt-stamped "Edwin C. Hill Company" on upper doublures, occasional rubbing to raised bands, joints and extremities of spines. LIMITED EDITION, no. 20 of 58 copies on Japanese vellum, various translators, engraved ornamental general titles printed in green, volume titles in red and black, frontispieces and plates by M. Bida, Henri Pille and others, in two states (on Japanese vellum and either colored or on mounted China paper), lettered tissue guards. (10)