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3 volumes. Early Edition of Lane's Famous Translation, this from a copy annotated by the translator, edited by his nephew Edward Stanley Poole and with a preface by Stanley Lane Poole. With an engraved title-page to each volume and profusely illustrated throughout by many hundred engravings on wood from original designs by William Harvey. Royal 8vo, handsomely bound in the publisher's original decorated cloth, the spines lettered and beautifully decorated in gilt, red and black, the upper covers decorated in all-over pictorial designs in black, red and gilt, the lower cover with central floral device in red and ruled in black at the upper and lower borders. xxx, 555; xii,578; xii, 701, [1], 32 ads. pp. An especially handsome and beautifully preserved set in original state. The bindings in unusually fine condition, strong, tight, bright and clean and with virtually no evidence of wear or use, the text-blocks are clean and fresh and very nice indeed with a minor touch of spotting encountered only very occasionally, an unusually pleasing survival of an important set rarely seen in such condition.