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Gift Books & Fine Bindings
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE: "Veller" title and two "Buss" plates; bound without the half-title. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.iii-xvi; 609; [1]. With 41 engraved plates, as well as an engraved frontispiece and decorated title page. Later green half straight grained morocco, with raised..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1890's]. [Classic iterature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xvi; 609 [3]. Illustrated with forty-three engravings by Seymour and Phiz. Contemporary dark green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and pebble-grained green cloth over boards. All edges..... More
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Charles Dickens' Complete Works. The University Edition. [Including] Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, [etc.]
Boston, MA: Estes and Lauiat, 1882. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND SET. Fifteen volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 55cm). With occasional wood engraved plates by various artists. Fine contemporary dark brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and marbled paper over boards. All edges and..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: The Westminster Press [Hodder and Stoughton], n.d. [c.1910]. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto, pp.[2] viii, 534 [2]. With 20 chromolithographic plates by Frank Reynolds, R.I., each with a captioned tissue guard. In publisher's red cloth with gilt and black titles to spine, and gilt and black titles to upper board, with..... More
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[Works of Charles Dickens, including:] Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, etc.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1868]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, 20 titles in 14 volumes. Not including 'Edwin Drood' (1870). Octavo (18 x 13 x 44cm). Each title with eight engraved illustrations by various artists, some with postscripts by Dickens dated 1868. Contemporary tan half calf with..... More
The Shrine of Death.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886. [Macabre] LIMITED EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.160. With illustrated majuscules, vignettes and headpieces. Number 75 of just 150 copies in this edition, printed by Unwin Bros., Ludgate Hill. Expertly bound in a suitable sombre full black oasis morocco in the..... More
The Letters of Dostoyevsky to his Wife.
London: Constable and Co., 1930. [Literary Correspondence] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 392. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, a plate of his wife, and a sample plate of his handwritting. Recent green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, matching cloth..... More
Familiar Letters on a Variety of Important and Interesting Subjects, from Lady Hariet Morley, and Others.
London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Caddel, 1773. RARE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii; [4]; 460 (final page misprinted as 560, as usual). In contemporary full tree calf with gilt titles to red label on spine. Marbled endpapers. pp.227-230 beginning to come loose. Black ink ownership inscription to verso of..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden. The Globe Edition: Edited with a Memoir, Revised Text, and Notes.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.lxxxviii; 662. Contemporary red half morocco by MUDIE, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Lightly browned throughout. Pencil ownership to first blank dated..... More
The Martian, A Novel.
London: Harper and Brothers, 1898. LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION. Quarto, pp.[4] x, 471 [5]. With 49 engraved plates, including a frontispiece of the author, and six facsimiles of original sketches by the author reproduced by P. Dujardin. Number 138 of just 250 copies printed on large paper. In publisher's quarter..... More
Worthies of the World, A Series of Historical and Critical Sketches of the Lives, Actions, and Characters of Great and Eminent Men of all Countries and Times.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., n.d. [c.1880]. [Historical Biographies]. FINELY BOUND. In two volumes. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[4] 416 [2]; pp.417-832 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engraved portraits of notable characters. Contemporary dark green half morocco with raised bands, gilt title to spines and marbled boards. Marbled endpapers; all..... More
![Celebrated Crimes [Includes the classic tales of Martin Guerre and The Man in the Iron Mask]....](/pictures/thumb/53407.jpg?v=1583755554)
Celebrated Crimes [Includes the classic tales of Martin Guerre and The Man in the Iron Mask]. Translated by I.G. Burnham. Illustrated with Photogravures after Original Drawings by De Los Rios, Prodhomme, Wagrez, etc.
Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1895. [True Crime] Octavo (20 x 14 x 30cm), eight volumes. With several full-page illustrations, all with tissue guards. Handsomely bound in half red morocco, gilt, with matching red cloth sides, top edges gilt, gilt-patterned endpapers. Some foxing within, lightly handled to exterior; a very good set..... More
Tales and Novels.
London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1832-1833. FINELY BOUND. Eighteen volumes, octavo (18 x 12 x 44cm). Finely bound by Riviere for Little, Brown and Co. Early twentieth century brown half morocco over cloth boards, raised bands, gilt titles and extra gilt to spines, gilt top edges, marbled endpapers. All volumes illustrated..... More
Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871-1872. [English Literary Classic] FIRST EDITION. Four volumes, octavo (15 x 10 x 12cm). With half titles, but lacking errata slips. Contemporary black half calf with gilt decoration to spines, and recent replacement title labels in contrasting red and black morocco. Marbled paper over boards;..... More
Articulorum XXXIX Ecclesiae Anglicanae Defensio, una cum nova eorundem versione [In Defence of the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England]. His Accedunt Articuli Lambethani, una cum Rev. and Doct. virorum in eos Censura etc.
Cambridge: Johann Hayes, 1694. SECOND EDITION. Vigesimo-Quarto (very small). In two parts, pp. [2] 143; 75. Text in Latin. With occasional blank pages for notes. In nineteenth century half brown mottled calf with raised bands and gilt titles to red morocco label. Marbled boards. Chip from edge of title page..... More
Winston Churchill. Being an Account of the Life of the Right Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, P.C., C.H., T.D., M.P.
London: Mills and Boon, Limited, 1927. [History / Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2], 272 [24]. With 11 illustrations over eight plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Churchill. In recent red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and red cloth boards. Light browning, more so..... More
Colloquia, cum notis selectis Variorum, Addito Indice novo, Accurante Corn. Schrevelio.
Amsterdam: Ex Typographia Blaviana, 1693. FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Octavo, pp.[12], 784 [20]. With a wood engraved decorated title page, an unpaginated index and footnotes. All text in Latin. In contemporary brown full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to dark red label on spine, and further gilt decoration to spine..... More
The Early Days of Christianity.
London: Cassell and Company, 1909. [Church History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xvi, 664 [2]. With a frontispiece lithographic portrait of the author. In contemporary red full calf with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine and armorial gilt device of the Mathematical School, Rochester, stamped..... More
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1844. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. In two volumes. Octavo (16 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 456; [2]; pp.[6]; 443; [3]. Contemporary tan quarter calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red spine labels, and marbled boards and endpapers. Browning and spotting throughout. Spines lightly toned with some marks and..... More
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[The Novels of Henry Fielding]. The History of Tom Jones; Jonathan Wild; Amelia; Joseph Andrews.
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. [c.1900]. FINE UNIFORM BINDINGS. Four separately published volumes. Octavo, pp.[2] xxx, 455 [1], xii, 442 [2]; pp.xii, 313 [3]; pp.[2] x, 535 [3]; pp.[2] xvi, 333 [3]. Volume I two volumes in one with illustrations. In contemporary red half calf with slightly raised bands..... More
The Works of Henry Fielding.
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., and New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. Twelve volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 38cm). Beautifully bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for E.P. Dutton and Company in contemporary dark red half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt titles and..... More
A Short History of the Worshipful Company of Horners.
Croydon: Published for Private Circulation by George Becker, no date [1936]. [London Guild History] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 138 [8]. With 35 black and white plates. Number 33 of an unspecified circulation, with a Company bookplate to front pastedown addressed to William Henry Cork, SIGNED by..... More
A Winter Season: Being an Attempt to Draw from the Storms of Winter, some Observations, which may warm our Hearts amidst its Cold, with Divine Love and True Benevolence. To which is added, an Essay on the Good Things of this Life.
Edinburgh: John Moir [etc.], 1813. SECOND EDITION, Improved and Enlarged. Octavo, pp.viii, 207. With a frontispiece engraving of the author and an engraved vignette for each Part of the text. In recent quarter cream cloth with black titles to white paper label on spine. marbled boards. All edges untrimmed. Black..... More
All the Sad Young Men.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 267; [1]. Handsomely bound in half dark green oasis with matching cloth over boards, raised bands, and gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine. Original cloth bound in at rear. Lightly toned throughout, with..... More
Flappers and Philosophers.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. [The jazz age]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 269; [1]. Smartly bound in recent green full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to spine, marbled endpapers. Paper stock slightly toned as often found, but clean. A very good copy in a smart..... More