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![The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and...](/pictures/thumb/52845.jpg?v=1568819749)
[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1906. [Illustrated Novels Set] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, later impressions. Six novels in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm). Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock; the other titles by Thomson. 40 wood engravings per volume. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt..... More
![The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and...](/pictures/thumb/52846.jpg?v=1584802507)
[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1910. [Illustrated Novels Set] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, later impressions. Six novels in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm). Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock; the other titles by Thomson. 40 wood engravings per volume. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt..... More
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, Translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Bensley, Cooke and Collingwood, 1815. FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Three volumes. Quarto (29 x 20cm), unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with many copper engravings by Charles Heath, after Richard Westall. Contemporary horizontal grained red full morocco with gilt titles to spine and gilt decorations to..... More
![BASILIKA. The Workes [works] of King Charles the Martyr: with a Collection of Declarations,...](/pictures/thumb/53425.jpg?v=1553873645)
BASILIKA. The Workes [works] of King Charles the Martyr: with a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, And other Papers Concerning the Differences Betwixt His Said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament.
London: Printed by James Flesher for R. Royston, 1662. [English History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (35 x 24cm), pp.[12] 118; [10] 458 [2]; 733 [7]. Complete with the frontispiece, engraved title page, and three further double-page-spread engraved plates. Also with the title page and preliminaries to..... More
The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain. Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot by W. H. Bartlett; with Descriptions by William Beattie.
London: George Virtue, 1842. [British Coastal Topography] FINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS. In two volumes. Quarto (28 x 22cm), unpaginated. With 96 of the original 126 steel-engraved plates, including frontispieces and title page vignettes after various artists, engraved by the Finden brothers and Bartlett. One leaf of text faces each engraving, to..... More
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, October 1891. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 624. With 39 engraved plates by 'Phiz' and a frontispiece of the young Dickens by Maclise. Reprinted from stereotype plates. Contemporary green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE: "Veller" title and two "Buss" plates; bound without the half-title. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.iii-xvi; 609; [1]. With 41 engraved plates, as well as an engraved frontispiece and decorated title page. Later green half straight grained morocco, with raised..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1890's]. [Classic iterature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xvi; 609 [3]. Illustrated with forty-three engravings by Seymour and Phiz. Contemporary dark green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and pebble-grained green cloth over boards. All edges..... More
![Charles Dickens' Complete Works. The University Edition. [Including] Pickwick Papers, The Old...](/pictures/thumb/54763.jpg?v=1568387173)
Charles Dickens' Complete Works. The University Edition. [Including] Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, [etc.]
Boston, MA: Estes and Lauiat, 1882. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND SET. Fifteen volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 55cm). With occasional wood engraved plates by various artists. Fine contemporary dark brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and marbled paper over boards. All edges and..... More
![Celebrated Crimes [Includes the classic tales of Martin Guerre and The Man in the Iron Mask]....](/pictures/thumb/53407.jpg?v=1583755554)
Celebrated Crimes [Includes the classic tales of Martin Guerre and The Man in the Iron Mask]. Translated by I.G. Burnham. Illustrated with Photogravures after Original Drawings by De Los Rios, Prodhomme, Wagrez, etc.
Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1895. [True Crime] Octavo (20 x 14 x 30cm), eight volumes. With several full-page illustrations, all with tissue guards. Handsomely bound in half red morocco, gilt, with matching red cloth sides, top edges gilt, gilt-patterned endpapers. Some foxing within, lightly handled to exterior; a very good set..... More
The Bells.
Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1881. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Square octavo, 24 thick leaves. An unusual presentation in publisher's linen backed grey paper covered boards with silver, gilt and brown pictorial upper; all edges gilt. Upper inner joint starting. Black and white illustrations and text printed on recto side only. Boards a...... More
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. A Tale of Slave Life in America.
London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1853. [Anti-Slavery Novel] EARLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 392 [2]. Liberally illustrated with more than 150 engravings, including a frontispiece and decorated title page. In later green half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy label on spine, and green cloth over boards..... More
The Illustrated Natural History: Birds.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. FINELY BOUND. Large Octavo, pp.[4], 786 [2]. With frequent in-text steel engravings by the Dalziel Brothers. In contemporary prize binding for Sir Joseph Williamson's Free School, Rochester. Full tan calf, recently re-backed with original gilt-decorated spine pasted over. Large armorial crest stamped to both..... More
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