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Together 27 vols., 18mo., on laid paper, with 2 copper-engraved frontispieces and 13 copper-engraved plates, neat twentieth-century signature on front free endpaper of first volume [only]; attractively bound in late eighteenth century calf, backs with flat gilt bands, second compartments with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, third compartments with black lozenge numbered and tooled in gilt, ALL MAIN LABELS PRESENT, wanting all but two number-labels (but numeration legible in blind), a few volumes expertly rebacked in calf to style, headbands frayed (but all bindings wholly sound), an unusually crisp, clean set in sympathetically refurbished period binding. With fine early nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down of all volumes. The extended set comprises: The Works (18 vols., 1765); The Letters (6 vols., 1767-1775); Supplement (3 vols., 1779). The plates, by I.S. Mueller, ad idential with those of thr 12mo edition (second issue), 1751. NCBEL II, 1054; Teerink & Scouten 92. See also Scott, pp.179-184. EXTENDED SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.