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Description: Title: Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs and Other Illustrations
Authors: Evert A. and George L. Duyckinck
Publisher: Charles Scribner
Printing Year: 1856
Number of Volumes: Complete 2 volume set

Notes: Bound in blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, this antique set is a scarce literary reference work. The work is illustrated with engraved frontispiece portraits of Benjamin Franklin and J. Fenimore Cooper, with intact tissue guards. The work also contains numerous in-text engravings. The volumes show external age/wear, with chipping and tearing to spine covers. The books are solidly bound with clean, lightly age-toned pages. The books measure approximately 7 3/4" x 10 1/2". Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $9.50