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Listing includes complete set (7 volumes) of The Works of Mrs. Hermans; with a Memoir of Her Life, by Her Sister. All items are leather bound with gilt on the boards and marbled edges. Volume I: Memoir of Mrs Hemans, Wallace's Invocation to Bruce, England and Spain; or Valour and Patriotism... Item is in acceptable condition. Wear to the boards and spine including scratches, tears, and staining. Wear to edges; lighter marbling as a result. Scuffing and staining along top edge. Staining due to age from front paste-down endpaper through title page and final page through free endpaper. Tears in spine between front and back paste-down endpapers and free endpa pers. Loose spine; exposed spine between pages 112-113 and 194-195. Detached section from page 351 to the back free endpaper. Volume II: Tales and Historic Scenes, The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy, Modern Greece... Item is in acceptable condition. Wear to the boards and spine including scratches, tears, and staining. Small stain along top edge. Staining due to age from front paste-down endpaper through title page. Tears in spine between front and back paste-down endpapers and free endpa pers. Loose spine. Volume III: The Sceptic, A Tale of the Secret Tribunal, Superstition and Revelation, The Caravan in the Deserts... Item is in acceptable condition. Wear to the boards and spine including scratches, tears, and staining. Scratch along top edge that has caused small tears and creases on pages 170-222. Staining due to age from front paste-down endpaper through title page. Tear in spine between front paste-down endpaper and front free endpaper. Slightly loose spine; exposed spine between pages 222-223. Volume IV: The Forest Sanctuary, Lays of Many Lands, Miscellaneous Pieces, Dartmoor, Welsh Melodie... Item is in acceptable condition. Wear to the boards and spine including scratches, tears, and staining. Small white stain along top edge. Staining due to age from front paste-down endpaper through title page. Tears in spine between front and back paste-down endpapers and free endpa pers. Loose spine; exposed spine between pages 146-147 and 158-159. Volume V: The Verses of Palermo, Songs of the Cid, On A Flower from the Field of Grutli, On a Leaf from the Tomb of Virgil... Item is in acceptable condition. Wear to the boards and spine including scratches, tears, and staining. Staining due to age from front paste-down endpaper through title page. Slight tears in spine between front and back paste-down endpapers and free endpapers. Slightly loose spine. Volume VI: Songs of the Affections, Miscellaneous Poems, National Lyrics. Item is in acceptable condition. Wear to the boards and spine including scratches, tears, and staining. Staining due to age from front paste-down endpaper through title page. Tears in spine between front and back paste-down endpapers and free endpa pers. Slightly loose spine. Crease on page 304. Volume VII: Songs of a Guardian Spirit, Songs of Spain, Songs for Summer Hours... Item is in acceptable condition. Wear to the boards and spine including scratches, tears, and staining. Staining due to age from front paste-down endpaper through title page. Tear in spine between front paste-down endpaper and front free endpaper. Slightly loose spine; exposed spine between pages 146-147.