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Condition report
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Some dust-soiling/toning to first and last leaves of each volume, light marginal staining at ends and very occasionally internally; occasional marginal wormholes chiefly to foot of gutter, a short closed tear just touching text on one leaf in vol 4, vol 5 title possibly supplied, it is faintly ruled in red and with a small corner wormhole. Early 18th-century English red morocco gilt with title pieces, all edges gilt, scuffed, spines sunned and dry with joints started, labels of vols 2 and 3 swapped, flyleaf of vol. 4 detached and laid in.
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