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Edinburgh: Arch, Constable and Co., 1820. Leather. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Ten volumes (volumes 3 & 5 missing) Tan full Morocco leather with embossed basketweave design, gilt titling on black spine labels, elaborate gilt tooled decoration on spine, blind-stamped floral border within gilt tooled borders on front and back, marbled textblock edges, coloured endpapers, green ribbon markers, Vol. 1 has black and white frontispiece. Vol. 1 has a half-inch open tear at top end of spine, spine cover split at front gutter, lower inch of cover and first few pages cracked; Vol. 2 has a half-inch open tear at top end of spine, upper two inches of front gutter split, creases on first free end-paper, upper inch of front gutter split, lower spine label has small open tear; Vol. 4 spine worn at top, upper inch of front gutter split; Vol. 6 has half-inch closed tear at top of spine and a one-inch closed tear at bottom end of spine; Vol. 7 has a half-inch open tear at…