Volume 2 has a dark stain along the top edge which extends into the printing on some of the pages. The printing can still be read but it is there. It starts small in the crease at page 67, gets progressively bigger until about pages 218-219, then gets smaller and goes away by the 380s. The books were published by Redfield 110 & 112 Nassau-Street, New York, 1855 This is the two first volumes of a 3 volume set but third volume is just literary critics and such so the 2 first are by far the most important. Somewhat dry in places but binding holds well and this is not a bad problem. Follows the first print from 1850.