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Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Claude A. Shepperson (illustrateur). A smart collection of eleven volumes from The Gresham Publishing Co., with illustrations. Eleven volumes. A collection of volumes in matching binding from important author's, with a biographical introduction to the front of each volume by various writers. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and five plates. Collated complete. This set includes: Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest. Written by George Henry Borrow, an English writer of novels and of travel based on personal experiences in Europe. Illustrated by Claude Allin Shepperson, a British artist, illustrator, and printmaker specializing mainly in social scenes and landscapes. After Dark. Written by Wilkie Collins, an English novelist and playwright. Illustrated by Gordon Browne, an English artist and a prolific illustrator. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Written by Charles Dickens, an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters. Illustrated by William Rainey, a British artist and illustrator. Coningsby, or the New Generation. Written by Benjamin Disraeli, a British statesman, Conservative politician, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Illustrated by Claude A. Shepperson. Ormond: A Tale. Written by Maria Edgeworth, a prolific Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. Illustrated by Frederick Pegram, a prolific English illustrator and cartoonist. Scenes of a Clerical Life. Written by Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Illustrated by Christiana Mary Demain Hammond, known as Chris Hammond, an English painter and illustrator. The Scarlet Letter and The House with the Seven Gables. Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist and short story writer. Illustrated by John Henry Frederick Bacon, a British painter and illustrator Westward Ho! or The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh. Written by Charles Kingsley, a priest of the Church of England, university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. Illustrated by William Rainey. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer. Written by Charles Lever, an Irish novelist and raconteur. Illustrated by Carton Moore Park, a British painter, illustrator and teacher. The Heart of Mid-Lothian. Written by Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Illustrated by Claude A. Shepperson. The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Written by William Makepeace Thackeray, an English novelist and illustrator. Illustrated by William Rainey. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with frontispiece loosening to The Scarlet Letter. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper of the odd volume. Very Good. book.