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[BINDINGS - RECLAIMED WOOD]. A pair of titles, comprising:
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The Collected Library
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[BINDINGS - RECLAIMED WOOD]. A pair of titles, comprising:



1) BUNYAN, John. Pilgrim's Progress. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. 8vo. Illustrations by Joseph Swain after Charles Bennett. 20th century brown morocco, covers with large wooden panels stamped in blind "Warranted made of the oak taken from Elstow Church previous to restoration 1880" and with a mounted portrait of Bunyan, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, all edges gilt.

2) BURNS, Robert. The Scottish Keepsake or The Songs of The Ayrshire Bard. Ayrshire: William and Andrew Smith, n.d. [ca 1860?]. 32mo. Red morocco-backed pictorial wooden boards "made from the rafters of Burns' cottage."

Together, 2 works in 2 volumes, both bound with reclaimed wood related to the authors, condition generally fine.


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