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Collected Works & Sets
The Collected Works of Yeats, in Verse and Prose. Being the Writings, Plays and Poems.
Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. FIRST COMPLETE WORKS. 8 volumes. octavo. Portrait frontispiece (including a Sargent charcoal drawing that makes Yeats look like Dr. Nikola without his cat) to four volumes (alternate: vol.I, III, V, and VII), title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's pale green linen spines with titles..... More
History of Europe. From the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV. [and] From the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII [1774-1852].
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1843-59. [European History] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE SET, various editions. Nineteen volumes. Octavo (22 x 16 x 97cm). Finely bound by W.J. MANSELL, successor to James HAYDAY in contemporary tan full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels to spine, further..... More
Secret Court Memoirs: Memoirs of Henri IV King of France and Navarre, by the court historian of Louis XIV. [and] Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, written by herself. [and] Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz. Containing all the great events during the minority of Louis XIV and the administration of Cardinal Mazarin. [and] Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan, written by herself. [and] Secret Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV and of the Regency, by the Duchesse d'Orléans, mother of the Regent. [and] Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI taken from the Memoirs of Madame du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and from the Journal of the Princess Lamballe. [and] Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France; with sketches and anecdotes of her private life by Madame Campan, first lady-in-waiting to the Queen. [and] Secret Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud in a series of letters from a gentleman at Paris (Stewarton) to a nobleman in London. [and] Secret Memoirs of the Court of the Empress Josephine, with anecdotes of the courts of Navarre and Malmaison, by Madame Ducrest. [and] Secret Memoirs of the Court of Berlin; or, the Character of the King of Prussia, his ministers, mistresses, generals, courtiers, favourites, and the royal family of Prussia, by Count Mirabeau. [and] Memoirs of the Courts of Sweden and Denmark during the reigns of Christian VII of Denmark and Gustavus III and IV of Sweden. [and] Memoirs of Catherine II and the Court of St. Petersburg during her reign and that of Paul I, by one of her courtiers.
London: Printed for the Grolier Society, no date [1904]. [Regal and Imperial Court Memoirs] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE SET, Edition De Luxe limited to 1000 copies. Complete in 20 volumes. Octavo (23 x 16 x 80cm). All text in English. Each volume with a title page and frontispiece printed on Japanese..... More
The Works of Shakespeare, with three hundred and forty illustrations by Sir John Gilbert.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1889. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.560; pp.560. With a frontispiece engraving of the Bard by E.W. Robinson to volume I, and frequent vignette wood engravings by Gilbert throughout. Text printed in two columns. Contemporary red half calf..... More
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[The Novels of Jane Austen, comprising] Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; and Emma]. The Series of English Idylls.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1907-1909. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRSTS THUS, the complete first Brock Colour editions. Six volumes. Octavo (20 x 13 x 19cm). Each volume with 24 colour illustrations by Brock, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Recent biscuit-brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
The Works of William Thackeray. Including: Vanity Fair, Pendennis, Barry Lyndon, etc.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1899-1900. [Literature] THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION, FINELY BOUND. Thirteen volumes, octavo (21 x 15 x 56cm). Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous other plates and in-text illustrations. Smartly bound in contemporary dark red half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt titles and..... More
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Tales of Canterbury, Boece, Troilus and Criseyde, The House of Fame, The Legende of Good Women, The Romaunt of the Rose
Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-Upon-Avon and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1928-1929. [Literature] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. The Shakespeare Head Press edition. Eight volumes, quartos (29 x 21 x 26cm). Liberally strewn with hand-coloured illustrations. Beautifully bound by James MacDonald of New York in brown..... More
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[Lives of the Rakes and Dandies]. Madame de Pompadour, Five Fair Sisters, The Fascinating Duc de Richelieu, A Fair Conspirator, The Women Bonapartes, The Brood of False Lorraine, Rival Sultanas, The Pearl of Princesses, The Hand of Léonore, A Gallant of Lorraine, Unruly Daughters.
London and New York, NY: Harper and Brothers; London: Hutchinson and Co.; London: Methuen and Co., Ltd.; London: Eveleigh Nash Company; London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1904-1925. [Biography] FINELY BOUND COLLECTION. Eleven titles bound as fourteen volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 62cm). Finely bound by Fox in red straight..... More
The Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides. With numerous Additions and Notes, by the Right Hon. John Wilson Crocker. To which are added, Two Supplementary Volumes of Johnsoniana by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murohy, Tyers, Reynolds, Malone, Nichols, Steevens, Cumberland, and others. And Notes by Various Hands.
London: John Murray, 1839. [Literary biography] FINELY BOUND. Ten volumes, small octavo (17 x 11 x 28cm). With upwards of fifty engraved illustrations. Later binding by Ramage in brown half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spines, marbled boards and end papers; top edges gilt. Edges a little..... More
The Works. Comprises: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and Hugh Thomson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [Classic English Literature] FIRST EDITIONS THUS - each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Five volumes, octavos (20 x 13 x 18cm). With an introduction by Austin Dobson in each volume, profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice..... 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 Edgar Allan Poe. Fordham Edition. With an Introduction and Memoir by Richard Henry Stoddard.
New York, NY: A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1900. [Strange Tales] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS. Six volumes, octavo (20 x 14 x 22cm). With facsimile documents (folding), illustrated headpiece decorations and frontispiece portrait. Elegantly bound in recent brown half morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, brown cloth over boards, and..... More
Uniform Collection of Leatherbound works. Including Poems, The Princess, Idylls of the King, In Memoriam, The Holy Grail, Maud, Gareth and Lynette, and Enoch Arden.
London: Henry S. King and Co., 1874. [Poetical Works, Arthurian Legend etc] FINELY BOUND. Eight volumes, o ctavo (16 x 11 x 17cm). Handsomely bound in full dark green calf, delicately tooled in blind, gilt titles on red morocco labels, all edges coloured red, combed marble endpapers. Same dated ownership..... More
Les Miserables.
Boston, MA: Dana Estes [1902]. [Literary Classic] CENTENARY EDITION, Limited to 1000 copies, of which this is Number 831. 5 volumes, Royal octavo (23 x 16 x 21cm). With photogravure frontispiece in colour, other etched illustrations all with captioned tissue guards, title page printed in two colours. Elegantly bound in..... More
The Complete Works, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner with Scenes of a Clerical Life, Felix Holt, Romola, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda.
London: Postlethwaite, Taylor and Knowles, 1908. [English Literature] LIMITED EDITION. 10 volumes, octavo. Frontispiece etchings. Handsomely bound for Bruswick Book Co. in half burgundy morocco with elegant gilt decoration to spines, marbled sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A lovely fine set, inside and out. The St James Edition. One..... More
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[The Complete Novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, comprising:] Wuthering Heights; Jane Eyre; Shirley; Villette; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; The Professor; Agnes Grey. The Shakespeare Head Bronte.
Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. [Complete Novels] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 11 volumes. Octavo (23 x 15 x 46cm). Each volume illustrated with three lithographic plates from drawings by J. Hewer, except 'The Professor' and 'Wildfell Hall' II, which have two, and Wuthering..... More
Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven Edition.
New York, NY: The Lamb Publishing Company, no date [circa 1902]. [Strange Tales] FINELY BOUND SET. 10 volumes. Octavo (21 x 15 x 35cm). With eight half-tone plates to each volume, including a frontispiece, as well as numerous vignette illustrations. An out-of-series copy from a limited edition of 1000 copies..... 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 Life of Napoleon.
London: The Grolier Society / Edinburgh Press, no date [circa 1900]. [History] FINELY BOUND. 6 volumes, octavo (23 x 16 x 23m). Hand coloured frontispieces and illustrations throughout, each with captioned tissue guards. Printed on water marked paper of the Grolier Society. Elegantly bound for/by Brentanos in green half crushed..... More
The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen. Copyright Edition.
London: William Heinemann, 1906-1910. [Literature] FINELY BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF. Eleven volumes, octavo (19 x 14 x 37cm). Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in contemporary deep blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt and leather onlays to spines. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Internally fine. Binding lightly handled. A sumptuous presentation of..... More
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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
The Centenary Edition of Ian Fleming's James Bond Novels. [Set of works / novels comprising: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill, Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesties Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, and Octopussy with The Living Daylights (short stories)].
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novels] All FIRST IMPRESSIONS. Fourteen volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 42cm). Bound in original silver-stamped black cloth in striking dust-jackets with 'retro' style artwork by Michael Gillette. All volumes as new, housed in a custom-made cloth slipcase with fleece lining and ribbon pulls. A...... More