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1895 PTLA includes catalog (26 City Hall Place/13 Astor Place) and offers among "Popular Sets" the "Empire Edition. Choice Poets. 5 volumes. Burns, Byron, Lucile, Tennyson, Gems from the Poets, $2.50 retail"; and "Library Edition" (same Choice Poets), "$5:00 retail".

Lucile also appears alone in the "Library Edition -- Twelvemos. A marvel of bookmaking at the low prices at which we offer them. They are bound in extra English cloth, highly polished, marbled sides and edges. Retail price, $1.00. Send for Quotations on Quantities." [Cut illustrates a half binding, paneled spine, marbled paper sides].

----, 26 City Hall Place, 1895. 127x192mm, 263p. Half polished linen-finish cloth, leather spine label. Edges marbled to match cover marbling. Printed endsheets as shown above. S&EH; BAP.

----, 26 City Hall Place, 1895. 127x192mm, 263p. Half calf [i.e., cloth?] finished with marbled paper, spine gilt. Printed paper pastedowns. Kansas State NL 0594651.

...and in the "Empire Edition -- Twelvemos. Bound in Handsome Maroon Cloth, Highly Polished Back, Gilt Top. The most desirable moderate price 12mo on the market. Retail price, 50 cts. Send for Quotations on Quantities." [Cut illustrates a half binding, direct stamped spine, pebbled cloth or paper sides].

----. 26 City Hall Place, nd. 125x197mm, 263p. Maroon cloth stamped blind; gold spine titles. Plain endsheets. BAP

----, nd. 125x197mm, 263p? On spine: Empire Edition. Maroon cloth, Floral ornament in a diamond shape stamped blind on top board on;y, title in gold on spine. University of Washington. 

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