HOOPER, CLARKE and Co.- Salesman's Sample Dummy Hardcover - 1870

New York/Chicago: Hooper, Clarke and Co., 1870. HOOPER, CLARKE and Co.- Salesman's Sample Dummy- Hooper, Clarke and Co.-New York/Chicago c1870- 1st Edition- Hardcover;-12mo-VG++/ no dj as issued- 1/2black leather and green cloth- rubbed at spine and extremities but tight and clean- top page edges are gilt- Contents: Frontis of Dickens + title-Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Little Dorrit)-6pp about the books and price- $1.50 a volume in genuine 1/2 morocco!!!!!!, the book selections available: The Waverly Novels, Knight's Half Hours, Charles Dickens Works, Taine's English Literature, George Eliot's Works, Washington Irving's Works, Thackeray's Works, Bulwer Lytton's Works, Alexandre Dumas Works, Gibbon's Roman Empire, Victor Hugo's Works, Guizot's France, Macaulay's England, Green's English People, carlyle's Works, McCarthy's History of Our Times, Plutarch's Lives, Rollins Ancient History, Hume's England, Rawlinson's Monarchies, Rawlinson's Egypt, Rombaud's Russia, Josephus History of the Jews. Binding types, Frontis + tile page Decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbons, 19 plates-gravures one side of page + 12pp of excerpts from some of the volumes- inner and back inside cover-4 samples of leather bindings available- all for the SCARCE Author's Editions.-SEE PHOTOS- Hooper and Clarke desolved their partnership in 1890- Some of the plates were engraved by master engravers J.C. Buttre, Henri Manesse, etc.-Very SCARCE and collectible!- Non-fiction-literature-books-salesman's-sample-dummy-illustrated (2617). 1st Edition. 1/2 Leather & Cloth. VG++/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Illustrated. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.