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Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Paris: Baudry at the English, Italian, Spanish, German, and Portuguese Library; and Bobee and Hingray, 1828. First edition. 32mo (measures 4.6 x 3 inches approx.). lxxvi,252; [iv],311,[1]; [iv],267,[1]; [iv],285,[1]pp. §Issued as part of the twenty-eight volume series 'The British Classics; Comprising the Choicest Works in Prose and Verse, of the best Ancient and Modern Authors; With Original Prefaces. Edited by J.W. Lake', c.1827-32 which included such period favourites as Colman the younger, Canning, Pitt, Fox, Byron, & Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Volume one contains a seventy page Life of R.B. Sheridan by the editor. Full contemporary green morocco, gilt lettering, spines elaborately decorated in gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. All four original ribbon markers present. Touch of slight rubbing to extremities A very good, bright set - very neat & attractive, and beautifully preserved.