"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "
— Oscar Wilde

See below our stock of Walter Scott First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Limited Edition to 500 numbered copies of which this is No. 279. Publisher's quarter brown morocco with gilt titles to spine, green cloth boards, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Binding slightly rubbed. A clean and tight copy. The third book of a trilogy, edited by..... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1887. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 503; [3]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1814. Second Edition, in ORIGINAL BOARDS. Three volumes. Octavo, with half-titles, edges untrimmed. Frontispiece illustration to each volume. A rare survival in the original grey-paper covered boards, with blue paper spine and printed title labels (lacking from vol. II). Some general wear to the fragile..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xliv; 559 [3]. Small print, mainly in two columns. Contemporary brown full morocco for Stonyhurst College, with raised bands, gilt titles and further gilt decoration to spine, as well as gilt school stamp to..... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1887. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 490; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1886. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 438; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell & Co., 1827. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S BOARDS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xxviii; 351 [1]; pp.[4] 374 [10]. Publisher's light brown pasteboards, with plain printed paper title labels to spines. All edges untrimmed. Twin black ink ownerships to fly-leaf..... More