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See below our stock of Walter Scott First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
New York, NY: The American News Company, no date [circa 1890's]. [Classic Literature] EARLY JACKET, 'Excelsior' edition, printed from the last revised edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 593 [9]. With a pair of facing wood engraved frontispieces. Publisher's green cloth elaborately decorated in black and gilt to spine and..... More
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: George Routledge and Sons, no date [circa 1900]. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 740 [2]. With six engraved plates by Corbould. Printed on this paper with small print. Contemporary burgundy full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt ruling..... 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
Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coates, no date [1885]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes in one. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[4] 14; 3-241 [1]; pp.246 [4]. With a steel engraved frontispiece to each volume, and one further engrave plate. Contemporary blue half calf, with gilt titles to red label and..... 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
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1887. [Historical Romance] FINELY BOUND, Waverley Novels Centenary Edition, Vol. XXII. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 480 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary green full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin red labels, and further gilt tooling to spine..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coates, no date [1885]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes in one. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] 14; 3-315 [1]; pp.52; xviii; 53-297 [5]. With an etched frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary blue half calf, with gilt titles to red label and further gilt decoration to..... More
London: Robert Hale, 1982. [Scottish Love Poetry Anthology] FIRST THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Anne Ransom, not priced. Jacket toned, otherwise crisp and clean. Near fine. A fine selection of Scottish erotic verse from the..... More