1819-1830 The Delphin Classics

Condition

In the original publisher's paper covered boards. Externally generally sound with shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, minor chipping to the extremities of the boards and rubbing to the occasional volume, a touch of edge wear; general light soiling to the boards and age toning to the spine. Tears and losses to back strips of XLIV, LXXXI, XLVII, LXXIII, and XCIII, with back strips of volumes CXLI and LIVII absent. Faint handling mark to the front board of nos. I, IV, XI XXXIV, XXIX, XXXII, LVI, LVII, LXIII, and LXIV. Minor staining mark to the front board of no. XXXIV. Small library stamps to the front board of the majority of volumes. A little loss to the paper of the front board of volume XLVII, LIV and LXXV. Joints to nos. VII, XI, XXII, XXX, XXXIII, XCIV, LXXI, and CXXXI starting. Front joint of Volume XI is starting, with boards held by cords only. Front joint of volumes CXXXV, CXXXIII, CXXXVI, XLIX starting, with boards holding firm. Rear joint is strained to CXIX. Rear joint is starting to Volumes III, VI, XVIII, XXIV, XL, CXIII, and CXV. Rear joint to no. LXXXV strained, held by cords only. Rear joint of no. XIX has failed, with board held by the front joint. Front joint no. IX, XL, XXX, XXXIX, LXXXIV, LXXV and CXIX are starting. Front joint of no. LXXXVI cracked, binding held by endpapers. Front joints to CXVII, CXIII, CXX, and CXVI have failed, front boards are detached but present. CI, with cracked joints, front and rear board loose but present, light soiling to the rear of the text block. Back strip and front board of volume XLVII detached but present, both boards and back strip of volumes XCIX, LXXXII and LII detached but present. Boards of volumes LIVII and CXXXIX detached. Boards of volumes CXLI and CXXXII loosely held. Minor chipping to the spine of no. II, V, XIX, XI, XVII, XXXVII, XXIX, XXXVI, LXV, LXXXIV, LXXXV, CI, CVI, and CVII. Loss to the head and tail of the spine of no. XIX, XXI, and XXIX. Loss to head of the spine on no. I, II, IV, XIX, CXVII, CXVIII, and CXX and paper to spine is lifting, exposing interior of the spine. Tearing to the spines on no. XXV and XL. A few ink marks to the spine of IV and VII. Spine is lifting to XI, CXIII, CXXI, and CXIX. General bumping particularly noticeable to the extremities of XVI, XCV, CXXX. Volume CXXIV has the odd mark to the front board. Volume CXXIII has some slight loss to the paper of the front board, front joint is starting a little to the tail. Volumes LXIX, LXVII have slight loss to the paper of the front board. Tidemarks and loss to the front board of volume XCV. Loss to the head of the spine of volumes XIII, CXXX, XXVII, LXXXVI and LXVIII. Small perforation to the tail of the spine of LXXIV. Loss to the tail of the spine of XIV. Loss to the paper of the rear board to volumes LXXXVII and CXXVI. Minor loss to the tail of the spine of no. XXXII, minor chipping to the joints, holding firm. Backstrip no. LIX laid down. Backstrip is lifting to the tail of volume XCII, CXXIV. Backstrip is loose to volumes XXVIII, XC. Head of the backstrip of volume XVII is detached but present, with the remainder of the backstrip held at the rear board. Backstrips of volumes LXX, LXXI, LXXXIX are loose. Backstrip lifting to the head of volume LXVII. Front and rear hinges starting to volumes XCIV, CXXXVII, with boards holding firm. Rear hinge to no. XXV is strained. Rear hinge to II, III, V, VI, XXIV starting. Hinges to no. XXX and CXXI have failed, and boards are hanging by cords only. Front hinges to no. VIII and XXXIII are starting. Front hinges to no. VII and X are tender. Front hinge of No III, XI are weak. Rear hinge to no. III, LI and CXV is attached by cords only and may detach with further handling. Hinges to no. XXXIX and CXIV have failed; boards and spine are detached but present. Front hinge to CXVIII has failed, front board is detached but present. Rear hinge is held by cords only. Front and rear hinge of volume XCI strained, with boards tenderly held. Front hinge strained to volume LXXXVIII and held by two cords only. Front hinge has failed to volumes XC, XCIII, LXXXIX, CXXVII; front boards are loose but present. Textblock is held to the rear board of XC by a cord only. Front board is held by cords only to volume XV, XXVIII. Rear hinge starting to LXXXVIII . Rear hinge has failed to XIV, XVI, XVII with rear boards held by a cord only. Front and rear hinges failed to volumes LXXXIX, XCII, with rear board held by two cords only (paper in the case of XCII). Rear joint starting to CXXVI and LXXXVI. Rear joint starting at the tail of LXVI. Front joint starting to volume LXX and LXVII. Front joint starting at the tail of volume CXII and LXXIII. Front endpaper detached to XCIII. Front free-endpaper of no. CXIV is torn. Tidemark to the head of the front pastedown in no. XL and to rear pastedown of no. XI. Small bookseller sticker to the front pastedown of volumes XVI, XVII, XIX, XX, XXII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI XXVII, XXVIII, XXX, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, LXIII, CVIII, CXXVIIII, and CXXIX. Internally, generally firmly bound though some volumes are tender. Binding tender to p. 497 no. LVI, holding firm; p. 769 no. LXXXV, held by three cords only; p. 3049 of no. CII, holding firm; and to p. 5640 no. CVI, held by two cords only; p. 5001 no. CV; binding of volume CXLI tender. Binding is tender to LXXXVI (noticeably at pages 928 and 929), XCV, CXII and LXXII. Binding is tender to Volumes XV, XXVIII, XIV, XVI, XVII. Some light spotting or handling marks to the odd leaf, particularly to the first and last few, otherwise the pages are generally bright and clean throughout. Some leaves unopened. Large mark to top corner of page 1729 of no. XIX. Half title and title page bound in to the rear of no. XXXVII. Half title and title page to vol. I, II, III, IV, and V, 'Quinti Curtii Rufi' bound in to no. LXXIX. Half title and title page for vols. II - IV of 'P. Papinii Santi' as well as for vol. III 'L. Annaei Flori' and vol. II 'Boethi', vol. III 'Justini' bound in to no. LXIV. Title page to vol. I 'Pub. Terentii Afri' and half titles and title pages for vol. II-IV of 'Pub. Terentii Afri' bound in to no. LXI. Half title and title page for vol. I-III 'D. Magni Ausonii' to no. LVII. With remarks on 'The Review Relative to Stephens' Greek Thesaurus in the Quarterly review No. 48 bound in with vol. XXXI. Subscribers leaflet bound in with no. XXXII. Insert of fifteen pages of the front of No. I, with list of 'Subscribers' Names Already Received to the New and Corrected Edition of the Delphin Classics; with the Variorum Notes'. The Classical Journal No. XLIII bound into the front of no. XX. With 'Delphin Classics with the Variorum Notes' sheet bound in with no. X, XXI, and LXIV. Publisher's advert bound into the front of no. XXV and XL. Publisher's adverts to the front of volumes XII, XXVII, and CXXVIIII.

Overall: Good