Bindings.

Bindings. Collection of leather bindings, including:
The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar. Edited by R. Chambers, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1881. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary red half morocco gilt,
The Lives of the Engineers … By Samuel Smiles … Sixth Thousand, London: John Murray, 1862. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary maroon morocco prize-binding with royal arms and lettering ‘Royal Military College, presented for attention to and progress in the study of mathematics’ gilt to front covers, all edges gilt, prize plates dated 1866 and addressed to Albert E. W. Goldsmid to front pastedowns, volume 1 inscribed by the author ‘with great admiration for Major Goldsmid’s proficiency as a mathematician, Samuel Smiles, 30 Jany 1885’,
The Life of the Moselle, from its Source in the Vosges Mountains to its Junction with the Rhine at Coblence. By Octavius Rooke, London: L. Booth, 1858. 8vo, contemporary red calf gilt, all edges gilt, inscribed ‘To Albert E. W. Goldsmid, for progress in German, G. F. Allfree, Romanoff House, Xmas 1861’,
The Works of the Rev. George Crabbe, London: John Murray, 1823. 8 volumes, 12mo, contemporary blue half sheep,
and others including various French literature, variable condition (qty: 69)

Albert E. W. Goldsmid (1846-1904) was a British army officer remembered as the founder of the Jewish Lads’ Brigade (now the Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Brigade).