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Richard Bentley: Bentley's Miscellany

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Richard Bentley: Bentley's Miscellany
<B>Richard Bentley: <I>Bentley's Miscellany</B></I>.</B></I> (London: Richard Bentley, 1837, 1838, 1839), six volumes, Quarter-leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering on spine, 8vo (5.75" x 9"). Volume I: 363 pages with index, nine pages of Bentley's Miscellany January-June 1837 and notes to correspondents. Front board and spine detached together from textblock. Volume II: 636 pages with index, 10 pages of Bentley's Miscellany July-December 1837 and notes/notices to correspondents. Good with 3.5" crack along front edge of spine. Volume III: 628 pages with index, 12 pages of Bentley's Miscellany January-June 1838, and notes/notices to correspondents, vii-page 2 is loose, 1.5" crack along bottom front edge of spine. Volume IV: 632 pages with index, 12 pages of Bentley's Miscellany June-December 1838. Front hinge starting, and page 1 loose. Volume V: 673 pages with index, 10 pages of Bentley's Miscellany January-June 1839, and notes/notices to correspondents. Includes "The Cremation of Shelley, on the coast of Tuscan, Under the Directions of Lord Byron". Missing table of contents, marbled paper chipped near spine. Volume VI: 658 pages with index, 12 pages of Bentley's Miscellany, July-December 1839, and notes/notices to correspondents, plate and page 17-18 leaf loose. Each volume with bookplate on front pastedown and boards lightly rubbed and top surface of leather missing in places. Includes installments of <I>Oliver Twist</B></I> by Charles Dickens pseudonym Boz, illustrated by George Cruikshank, as are many of the stories in this set. Foxing largely limited to plates and adjacent pages. <I>From the Betty Bennett Collection.</B></I><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)