A COLLECTION OF BOOKS -- PYNE, William Henry (1769-1843). The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore. London: 1819. 3 vols, quarto (337 x 280mm). Hand-coloured aquatint plates. Contemporary green morocco gilt (textblock detached in vol. I with covers crudely secured by tape, extremities rubbed). Provenance: The Society of Writers to the Signet (binding). Abbey Scenery 396; Lowndes V, 2015; Prideaux p.348; Tooley pp.197-200. [With:] SWIFT, Jonathan. Works ... second edition. Edinburgh: 1824. 19 vols, octavo, contemporary calf (some covers detached). [With:] SHAKESPEARE, W. Works ... fourth edition. London: 1880. 10 vols, octavo, contemporary red half morocco. [With:] ELIOT, George. Works. Edinburgh: [n.d.] 24 vols, octavo, contemporary red half calf. [With:] DRYDEN, Works. London: 1808. 18 vols, octavo, contemporary tree calf (rebacked). FITZGERALD, E. Letters & Literary Remains. London: 1902. 7 vols, octavo, contemporary green crushed half morocco. [With:] CHURCHILL, W.S. Lord Randolph Churchill. London: 1906. 2 vols, octavo, plates, contemporary brown crushed half morocco. [With:] Catalogue of the library of the Earl of Dudley, at 7 Carlton Gardens, SW. [London:] compiled by Hatchards, 1907. Quarto, manuscript shelf listings, contemporary green crushed morocco. [And:] a large quantity of other works, mainly literature and history.