The Victorian Age of English Literature (2 volumes complete)

NY: Lovell, Coryell & Company. Good. 1892. Hardcover. Front cover of Vol I nearly detached, rear hinge of Vol I starting, edgewear to both volumes, some tipped in letters have some edgewear or splits to fold, bookplate (ex-libris George A. Zabriskie) in Volume I; Mrs. Oliphant. The Victorian Age of English Literature (2 volumes complete). New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, 1892. Octavo (8" x 5.5"). xvi + 624 + lxxiii + 9 pages. Full gilt-tooled red morocco, top edges gilt, gilt rules, 5 raised bands with floral decoration to panels, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles with corner devises. This two volume set is a labor of love, created by collector and bookbinder George A. Zabriskie in the early 1900s. It includes 37 original tipped-in notes, letters or manuscript poems from and signed by historically significant authors, mostly women, mentioned in the book (see list below). It also includes an original 6-line note handwritten by author in Volume I, and an original 2 page handwritten signed letter by author tipped-in to Volume II. In addition to the 16 illustrations (with captioned tissue guards) included by the publisher, there are approximately 30 portrait plates (removed from other documents and skillfully bound in by Zabriskie) of people mentioned in book. Authors with original, tipped-in signed items include: Samuel Rogers, Maria Edgeworth, James Montgomery, Joanna Ballie, Amelie Opie, Barbara Hoffland, TA Trollope, Mary Howitt, Lady Blessington, Thomas Campbell, Sophia Lockart, Lady Duff Gordon, Hannah More, T.B. Macaulay, L. Aiken, Harriet Grote, Robert M. Milnes, Thomas Talfourd, James Sheridan Knowles, Samuel Warren, Frederick Marryat, Mary Somerville, Francis Power Cobbe, Emily Pfeiffer, Lewis Morris, Jean Ingelow, Letitia E. Landon, Felicia Hermans, Dina M. Mulock, Margaret Gatty, M.E. Branddon, F.L. Linton, Rhoda Broughton, Allan Cunningham, Agnes Strickland, Anna Jameson, and Shirley Brook. ; 8vo; xvi + 624 + lxxiii + 9 pages; Signed by Author .