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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott.
Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell and Co., 1830. Complete in 11 volumes, 8vo. Fine contemporary binding by Root & Son in burgundy straight grain half morocco with gilt tooling and titles to spines, marbled boards and end papers, top edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece and title page to each volume. Boards a.... More
The Waverley Novels. The works include: Waverley, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, etc.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1886-1887. [English Literature] The Centenary Edition, complete in 25 volumes; Octavo (18 x 12 x 64cm). Frontispiece illustration to each volume. Contemporary decorative binding by Blackwell in green half morocco with gilt titles and gilt tooling of leaves and thistles to spines, marbled boards and... 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 Leopold Shakespeare. The Poet's Works in Chronological Order, from the text of Professor Delius, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and "Edward III.," and an Introduction by F.J. Furnivall.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, no date [circa 1880]. [Shakespeare's Works] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[2] cxxvi; 1056. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, and frequent in-text wood engravings. Contemporary red half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. Red cloth... More
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[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 Works of John Locke, Esq. Including: An Essay concerning Human Understanding, Some Thoughts concerning Education, Some Considerations of the Consequences of Lowering the Interest, and Raising the Value of Money, An Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coin, Some Thoughts concerning Education, etc.
London: Printed for Edmund Parker,... 1740. The Fourth Edition. 3 volumes; Folio. Contemporary full calf boards, recently respined to style with red title label and gilt; edges tinted. With portrait frontispiece and 1 plate. Original boards scratched and marked, corners repaired. Browning and foxing throughout. Bookplate to paste downs. A.... More
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