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Family Secrets. or hints to those who would make home happy.
London: Fisher, Son and Co., no date [1843]. [Literature] ILLUSTRATED Three volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 8cm). Brown half calf over brown cloth sides, gilt titles on darker brown calf squares to spine. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and half title page plus another twenty-five plates spread between..... More
![Complete Novels of Jane Austen]. Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park;...](/pictures/thumb/59148.jpg?v=1617209045)
[Complete Novels of Jane Austen]. Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1904-1909. [Complete Novels] FINELY BOUND COLOUR PLATE EDITION, later printings. Complete in 10 volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 24cm), pp.xxxii; 163 [3]; pp.[6] 218 [2]; pp.x; 191 [3]; pp.[2] 210 [2]; pp.viii; 245 [3]; pp.[6] 249 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 245 [3]; pp.[6] 258 [2];..... More
![Complete Novels of Jane Austen]. Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park;...](/pictures/thumb/58871.jpg?v=1616607182)
[Complete Novels of Jane Austen]. Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897-1905. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED SET, later impressions thus. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (21 x 14 x 22cm), pp.[2] xxx; 352 [6]; pp.[2] xvi; 342 [4]; pp.[2] xviii; 429 [5]; pp.[2] xviii; 437 [67]; pp.[2] xvi; 444 [6]. With frequent engraved illustrations by Brock..... More
The Vox Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933-4. [Classic Literature] FIRST VOX ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13 x 21cm), 7 volumes. With colour plates and in-text black and white illustrations by Maximilien Vox. Prefatory letter, in French by Maximilien Vox and an introduction by Emile Legouis. Publisher's patterned grey cloth..... More
![The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen [set of works, comprises 5 volumes of the novels]: Sense...](/pictures/thumb/58588.jpg?v=1608140163)
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen [set of works, comprises 5 volumes of the novels]: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Emma, and 2 volumes of Letters. The text based on Collation of the Early Editions by W.R. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes, and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1923, 1932. First Oxford Edition. Large Paper. Limited to 1000 sets. Seven volumes. Coloured frontispieces. Beautifully bound in recent half blue oasis morocco with gilt titles and ornate gilt tooling to spines, blind rule to boards, cloth sides, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Internally clean..... More
The Novels of Jane Austen. The works include: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey with Persuasion, and Lady Susan with A Memoir of J. Austen and The Watsons.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1882. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. In six volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), with tissue-guarded frontispiece engraving by Pickering to each volume. Finely bound circa 1920s by Roger de Coverley in half mid-blue crushed morocco, gilt, over marbled sides with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Internally clean..... More
Novels [Being: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, A Memoir, Lady Susan, and The Watsons.]
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1875-1883. New Edition. Six volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm), Pickering's engraved frontispiece illustrations to each volume. Publisher's green cloth, blind embossed floral panel design to boards, titles and publisher's imprint in gilt to spine, coated brown endpapers. Housed in an elegant fleece-lined slipcase..... More
The Holy Bible. A Critical Commentary and Paraphrase on the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha.
London: Richard Priestley, 1822. FINELY BOUND. Quarto (32 x 26 x 28cm). Bound in contemporary diced tan calf, gilt titles on black calf squares to spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Bishop Patrick to volume I, folding map of the Holy Lands in volume V. Bookplate of..... More
The Novels of the Sisters Brontë: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, Shirley, Villette, The Professor. The Thornton Edition.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1907. [Prose Works] FINELY BOUND THORNTON EDITION. Complete in 12 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm). Illustrated with numerous plates consisting of photographic reproductions of Bronte country. Handsomely bound in recent brown half morocco with red and green title labels, gilt tooling to spines, and matching brown cloth..... More
The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte & Her Sisters. Haworth Edition. With Introductions to the Works By Mrs Humphrey Ward.
London: Smith Elder, 1910. 7 volumes. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Elegantly hand-bound by Robert Riviere and Son in half green morocco, gilt, with spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, gilt panelling, gilt rule to sides, green buckram boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Gently toned to spine, minor..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1899. [Poetical Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING, an india paper edition. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xvi; 748; pp.viii; 786 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author to each volume. Small print in two columns. Finely bound for Harrow School..... More
The Works of Lord Byron. With His Letters and Journals, and his Life, by Thomas Moore.
London: John Murray, 1835. [Verse] FINELY BOUND. 18 volumes, being the poetry complete in 17 volumes, with Galt's Life of Byron (First Edition) as the 18th volume. Octavo (17 x 11 x 45cm). Engraved frontispiece and engraved title page to every volume. Finely bound by Kaufmann for booksellers Estes and..... More
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Tales of Canterbury, Boece, Troilus and Criseyde, The House of Fame, The Legende of Good Women, The Romaunt of the Rose
Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-Upon-Avon and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1928-1929. [Literature] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. The Shakespeare Head Press edition. Eight volumes, quartos (29 x 21 x 26cm). Liberally strewn with hand-coloured illustrations. Beautifully bound by James MacDonald of New York in brown..... More
Winston S. Churchill. 1874-1965.
London: William Heinemann, 1966-1988. [Political Biography] FIRST EDITIONS. Illustrated with photographs throughout. In eight volumes, being the complete set of the Life. Octavo (24 x 17 x 51cm). Handsomely bound in burgundy half morocco with raised bands, black leather title labels lettered in gilt, 'lion rampant' motif in gilt to..... More
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[War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London: Cassell and Company, 1941-6. [History] COMPLETE WAR SPEECHES IN FIRST EDITION, smartly bound. Seven volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. Handsomely bound in dark blue half morocco, with gilt titles and gilt lion motifs to spines, raised bands, twin red title labels lettered in..... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1948-1954. [Military history] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Elegantly bound in navy blue half morocco with twin red title..... More
The Works of Wilkie Collins. Including The Woman in White, The Moonstone, After Dark, The Evil Genius, The Dead Secret, etc.
New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, no date [circa 1900]. [Literature] THE WORKS. Complete in 30 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 89cm). With frontispiece illustrations and many other full-page plates. Handsomely bound in brown half calf, gilt titles and decoration to spines, matching buckram boards, all edge speckled. Internally clean..... More
The Works of Joseph Conrad. Including: Almayer's Folly, Tales of Unrest, Typhoon, Nostromo, Lord Jim, An Outcast of the Islands, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, Chance, Allmayer's Folly, Victory, The Rescue, The Inheritors, Romance, The Mirror of the Sea, The Arrow of Gold, The Shadow Line, etc.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1925. [Literature] THE WORKS. Complete in 20 volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm). Frontispiece photogravure to each volume. Facsimile signature of the author printed to first and final leaves. Handsomely bound in half dark blue oasis morocco with gilt titles and gilt raised bands to spines, blue cloth..... More
The Works of Joseph Conrad. Including: The Nigger of the Narcissus, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Youth, etc.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1920. [Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 24 volumes. Octavo (22 x 16cm). Frontispiece photogravure to volume one, vignette 'Sundial' illustration to title page of each volume, which features text printed in two colours. Handsomely bound in half dark blue oasis morocco with..... More
The Leatherstocking Tales. [The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder; The Pioneers; The Prairie].
London: Macmillan and Co., 1900 and 1901. [American Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST BROCK EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 522 [2]; pp.[2] xxviii; 398 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 463 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 455 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 437 [3]. With 40 illustrations by Brock to..... More
The Works of James Fenimore Cooper. [Including 'The Last of the Mohicans'; 'The Pathfinder'; 'The Deerslayer' etc.] The Mohawk Edition.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, no date [circa 1895]. [American Literature] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE SET. 32 volumes, ctavo (22 x 15 x 96cm). Printed by the Knickerbocker Press. Each volume with a photogravure frontispiece reproducing illustrations by F.T. Richards. Contemporary tan half calf with gilt titles to contrasting red..... More
The Leather - Stocking Tales. Comprising: The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, and The Prairie. With Illustrations by H.M. Brock and an Introduction by Mowbray Morris.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1900-1901. [Literature] ALL FIRST BROCK-ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. 5 volumes, octavo (19 x 13 x 19cm). Abundantly illustrated with line drawing black and white full page plates. Finely bound in mid-green half calf with raised bands, gilt decoration, twin red title labels to spines; cloth boards; top edges..... More
Poems: by William Cowper.
London: W. Kent & Co., 1859. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vii-lxxii; 274 [2]; pp.viii; 336 [2]. With 75 in-text engravings after Gilbert. Contemporary brown full morocco for Hatchard's, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and panelled decoration..... More
The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence.
London: William Tegg and Co., 1849. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 736; [2]. With six steel engraved plates by various artists including a frontispiece, as well as an engraved vignette title page. Contemporary full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and extensive gilt decoration..... More
The Works of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman.
London: William Pickering, 1986-1989. [Science / Evolution] THE COMPLETE WORKS, Pickering Masters Series. Octavo, 29 volumes. Handsomely bound in dark green half morocco over green cloth boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, top edges gilt. The complete works in 29 volumes edited by Paul H. Barrett and R...... More