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The Works of William Thackeray. Including: Vanity Fair, Pendennis, Barry Lyndon, etc.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1899-1900. [Literature] THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION, FINELY BOUND. Thirteen volumes, octavo (21 x 15 x 56cm). Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous other plates and in-text illustrations. Smartly bound in contemporary dark red half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt titles and..... More
Sherlock Holmes: A Study In Scarlet, Sign of Four, Hound of the Baskervilles and Valley of Fear: The Complete Long Stories.
London: John Murray, 1929. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION of this omnibus volume; the first collected edition of the original four Holmes novels, with a brand new preface from Conan Doyle. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.640; [6]. Recent red half calf with raised bands and gilt titles to twin black labels..... More
Elegant Extracts. From The Most Eminent Prose Writers.
London: John Sharp, no date [circa 1810]. [Extracts] FINE REGENCY BINDING. Eighteen volumes, small octavo (14 x 9 x ). Beautifully bound in contemporary deep red straight grain morocco, gilt and blind tooling to boards, gilt titles and extensive gilt decoration to spines. All edges gilt, blue endpapers. Each volume..... 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
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