"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust

New York, NY: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, no date [circa 1900]. 20 volumes; octavo. With frontispiece illustrations. Bound in recent dark green half morocco with matching cloth sides, gilt titles on black squares and gilit tooling on red squares to spine. Top edges gilt. Neat ownership inscriptions, to the title..... More
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1782; 1787; 1787; 1788; 1788; 1788. [Late Antiquity] FINELY BOUND QUARTO EDITIONS, first three volumes New Edition, final three volumes First Edition. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (29 x 23 x 31cm), pp.xx; 704; pp.[12] 640; pp.[12] 640; pp.[4] xvi; 620; pp.[12]..... More
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