Literature. A very large collection of English literature and history, mainly cloth-bound library sets, 19th and early-20th century, including: 1) Ruskin (John). The Stones of Venice, 2nd edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1858. 3 volumes, 8vo, original brown cloth gilt, familial gift inscriptions to Sidney J. Daltry (1858-1939), English clergyman and missionary to Persia and South Africa, volumes 1 and 2 recased, 2) Conrad (Joseph). [The Works.] Medallion Edition, London: The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd, 1925. 21 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth with silhouette portrait of Conrad gilt to front covers, photogravure frontispieces, 3) Burke (Edmund). The Writings and Speeches. [Edition statement on spines: Beaconsfield Edition]. London: Bickers & Son, Ltd., c.1910. 8vo, original cloth, photogravure frontispieces, a few spines with loss, 4) Hakluyt (Richard). The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English nation, Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1903-5. 12 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, numerous plates and maps, 5) Grote (George). A History of Greece. A New Edition, London: John Murray, 1888. 10 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth, folding maps, partly unopened, 6) Gibbon (Edward). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: for T. Cadell [and others], 1828. 8 volumes, 8vo, later cloth, and numerous others, including sets of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Alison's History of Europe, George Meredith, Washington Irving, the Dictionary of National Biography, and more, and many single- or two-volume works (qty: 38 boxes) Provenance: John Harold Fawcett CMG (1929-2019), British diplomat, many works containing his armorial bookplate, with the motto 'Non nobis solum sed patriae' ('Not for ourselves alone but for our country') . Fawcett served as ambassador to North Vietnam, 1974-1975, counsellor and head of chancery, Poland, 1975-1978, deputy high commissioner, New Zealand, 1978-1986, and ambassador to Bulgaria, 1986-1989 (thirty-eight boxes) The lot sold as seen, not subject to return.