5 vols. books: Memoirs published 1731-1887 Ruskin, John. PRAETERITA. Kent, Eng.: Allen, 1886. Vol. 2 published 1887. 3/4 leather with banded spine and gilt lettering; each with steel engraving; 8vo. (Spines and covers worn, covers beginning to loosen, vol. 1 spine with small gouge to head, vol. 2 front cover partially detached, books with some penciling on blank pages, interior tight and clean, VG) Boulainvilliers, Count of, trans. THE LIFE OF MAHOMET. London: Hinchliffe, 1731. Full leather with tooled decoration on covers; banded spine with tooled lettering; 8vo. (Both covers detached, spine very worn, endpapers with minor staining, with book plate and pencil markings, pages wrinkled slightly from water, interior generally tight and clean, good condition) Davies, Thomas. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF DAVID GARRICK. 2 vols. new edition. London: Davies, 1780. Full leather with tooled and gilt spine; with portrait frontispiece of David Garrick; 12mo. (Vol. 1 rebacked, boards worn, book plate, front cover of vol. 2 detached, vol. with water stain to lower regions throughout book, endpapers stained, vol. 1 with inscription by owner, binding beginning to loosen, interior with minor staining for age, good condition)