The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction: Containing Original Essays; Historical Narratives; Biographical Memoirs; Manners and Cutoms; Topographical Descriptions; Sketches and Tales; Anecdotes Vol. XXVIII [July 2-Dec. 31 1836 (nos. 785-813)] [provenance: Charles Coleman Sellers]

London: J. Limbird, 1836. Hardcover. Title continued: "Select Extracts from New and Expensive Works; Poetry, Original and Selected; The Spirit of the Public Journals; Discoveries in the Arts and Sciences; New Facts in Natural History &c." viii, 472 p.: frontispiece portrait of Felicia Hemans, many full-page and in-text illustrations; 22 cm. Original half calf with marbled paper over boards. Includes index. Bookplate of former owner Charles Coleman Sellers on front fixed endpaper. In Fair Condition: front board is detached but present; loss of leather at corners; half of leather on spine lacking, along front joint (revealing that the waste paper used in binding the volume included unused musical staff paper); frontispiece and title page are also detached, but present; first signature is starting to separate from the text block; remainder is solid; some browning on earlier leaves, but otherwise clean. Fair. Item #003925

Price: $18.00