b, Ca. 1890’s 12 books encased in a lovely green cloth box with gold tooled lid.

Notes

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H.D. Thoreau: Walden, Dr. Johnson: Table Talk, W.S. Landor: Imaginary Conversations, William Hazlitt: Essays, Ruskin: Sesame and Lilies, Sir Thomas More: Utopia, Thomas A. Kempis: The Imitation of Christ, Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia, Thomas Carlyle: Essays, Sir Francis Bacon: Essays, Emerson: Essays, Montaigne: Essays