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Cf L.C. Page; Estes & Lauriat (DLB 49). W.H. Merriam started Troy business in 1840; became Merriam, Moore and Co. in 1850, name changed to Nims & Knight in 1882, incorporated 1892 as Joseph Knight, with headquarters in Boston. (Brief Studies).

----. [1884?]. 158x250mm, 369p. [Family Edition]. Verso titlepage: Copyright by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1884. Elaborate bordered pages with alternate openings printed light brown and light green. Brown cloth stamped black, red and gold (design resembles quarter binding with black background, flowers red); beveled edges, aeg. Floral endsheets. No extra leaf at rear. Similar stamping to (Houghton Mifflin) HM7-8 (title stamps differ) and (Crowell) Cr6a; title stamp is same as (Nims) N1a, N1b. S&EH: inscribed 1891.

----. 1885. Half emerald-green goatskin finished in pale greenish-gold cloudy pattern paper, spine gilt. Boston Public Library.

----, nd. 160x253mm, 369p. Titlepage: Illustrated. Verso titlepage: Copyright by T.Y. Crowell & Co., 1883 and 1885. At foot of page: Berwick & Smith, Printers, Boston. Bordered pages as above. Light brown cloth stamped red, black and gold as [1884?]; beveled edges; aeg. Floral endsheets. Extra leaf at rear which has cartouche of Berwick & Smith, Boston. Same stamping as HM7-8 (title stamps differs)and Crowell Cr6a; title stamp is same as N1a, N1b. BAP NK1.

----, nd. 156x250mm, 369p. Block as NK1. Binding is bright green cloth stamped red, black and gold, spine with a circular cartouche (of the author?) in lower right corner. BAP NK2.

----, nd. 170x250mm, 369p Padded, blind-stamped leather with flowers in center and a woven design at bottom. Each page decorated. Brigham Young.

----, nd. University of Toronto: rebound.

1886 PTLA: Lucile-Owen Meredith. Family Edition. Fully illustrated, and uniform with Family Editions of Longfellow, Whittier and Tennyson. 1 vol., 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt edges...$2.50; 1 vol, 8vo, full crocodile, flexible...$4.00; 1 vol., full American seal, padded, flexible, gilt edges...$5.00.

1887 PTLA: Lucile-Owen Meredith. Family Edition. Fully illustrated, and uniform with other volumes of this series. 1 vol., 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt edges...$2.50; 1 vol., 8vo, full American seal, padded, flexible, gilt edges...$5.00.

----. 160x253mm, 369p. Decorative borders replaced with black lines ending in a device. Binding as NK2 in dark green cloth. S&EH; Harvard.

1888-1890 PTLA: Family Edition of the Poets... 1 vol., octavo, cloth, gilt edges... $2.50; 1 vol., octavo, full American seal, padded, flexible, gilt edges... $4.00; 1 vol., octavo, full fancy embossed leather, padded covers, round corners... $5.00... Lucile By Owen Meredith. Fully illustrated, and handsome border around each page.

----, 1888? University of Virginia.

1891 PTLA: as 1888 with full fancy embossed leather reduced to $4.00.  

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