Description: Group of 3 books, including two cloth bound copies of Rasselas: a) The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale, with The Vision of Theodore and The Fountains: A Fairy Tale, by Samuel Johnson, published by Hogan and Thompson, Philadelphia, 1850, 230 pages. 8vo, red cloth with gilt decoration to the boards and the spine. All page edges gilt. Illustrated with a full-color frontispiece and with black and white plates, all with tissue guards; b) Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, London, 1873, 162 pages. 18mo, embossed cover, gilt fore edges. c) A Journal of the Plague Year; or, Memorials of the Great Pestilence in London, in 1665, by Daniel Defoe, A New Edition, Attentively Revised, and Illustrated with Historical Notes by Edward Wedlake Brayley., published by Thomas Tegg and Son, London, 1835, 376 pages. 18mo full grain leather with marbled boards. Dimensions are: a) 9 1/4 inches long X 5 5/8 inches wide; b) 5 7/8 inches long X 4 inches wide; c) 6 1/8 inches long X 4 inches wide. All measurements are approximate.