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[000131] Mitford, Rev. John (Ed), The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, and the Rev. William Mason WITH The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason, to Which are Added Some Letters Addressed By Gray to the Rev. James Brown, Richard Bentley, London, 1851, First Edition. Good+. Half Calf and Cloth, 8vo. Three volumes – Volume One – xxv, [1], 446pp; Volume Two – [4], 414pp and Volume Three (Correspondence of Gray and Mason, pub. 1853) – xxxviii, 486pp.

Uniformly bound in half-calf, raised bands, spines in six panels, leather title label to second panels, volume numbers in gilt to fourth, remaining panels with central flower device in gilt, t.e.g., marbled endpapers.

Slight rubbing to extremities, spines very slightly faded, occasional light foxing but generally bright and clean.

From the library of William Henry Mason, with his bookplates to front pastedowns