Description:
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895 Author's Edition. Very good. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895 till 1898, 22 volumes. Tall 8vo. Bright red cloth with elaborate gilt decor on spines(thistle design) and gilt lettering on spines and front covers. Frontispiece in each volume.Some other plates in a few volumes. Top edges gilt. The other edges are rough and uncut. A nice fine set clean inside.Vol.8 contains "The Body Snatchers'. Vol. 16 contains two poems not in the 'Edinburgh Edition': 'Ditty: The Cock shall crow' and 'The Last Sight: Once more I saw him'. Vol.18 has the 'Preface to the America Edition of Fleeming Jenkin', not published in England until 1907. Vol.22: Sketches, Criticisms, etc..
