London: Published for the Proprietors at the Office. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards and end papers. Covers the time period 1841 -1859 lacking volumes 1852 and 1857. A few headbands worn and one board is detached, a few headbands torn and a couple of weak hinges. Internally clean.....
London: Ainsworth Magazine/James Mortimer, 1843. Hardcover. Frontispiece, 1-30p, 93-122p, 187-218p, 281-316p, 375-404p, 469-496, 1-18p, 95-108p, 189-206p, 439-468p. Contemporary quarter calf with a gilt ruled spine over marbleized boards. Possibly an American binding. The complete novel bound up from various issues of Ainsworth's Magazine (1843). Bound without the separately issued title.....
London: R. Dodsley, 1744. Hardcover. Engraved title page, xi, 142p, [1]. Contemporary calf. Hinges cracked and weak. Headband worn and boards rubbed. Half title bound before the title page. Small marginal stain on a few preliminary leaves. Third edition. Mark Akinside (1721-1770) was a poet and a physician. A tremendously.....
London: Stanley Paul & Co, 1910. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xiv, 327p; viii, 329-696p. Publishers red cloth. A fresh clean set with a bookplate on the inside front board. A fresh clean set. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
New York: Odyssey Publications, 1967. vi, 61p. Publishers paper covered boards. A facsimile reprint limited to 500 copies of the 1896 edition. The text follows Samuel Smith's translation. Nicely illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Some soiling to the boards and a small chip a the front hinge at the foot of.....
Ediniburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885. 359p. Contemporary leather over boards with a richly gilt spine and the arms of Dulwich College on the front board. Marbled end papers and the prize leaf attached on the inside front board. .awarded to M. B. Milne Midsummer 1888". Marbled foredge. Signed binding.....
London: J. Edwards, Pall Mall and T. Payne, 1798. Hardcover. xi, 270p. Contemporary green morocco with gilt ruled boards and spine. Marbled end papers and gilt foredge. Inner hinges reinforced. Early inscription on the inside front blank and the name F. Reginald Forbes on a preliminary leaves. Spine a little.....
London: J. Cundee, 1802. Hardcover. Engraved frontispiece, ix, [3], 260p, [4]. Contemporary calf rebacked with new richly gilt spine. The rebacking seems older and the marbled end papers were professionally replaced. Some light dryness to the boards and wear along the tips. Occasional editorial corrections in the text and a......
London: John Sharpe, 1819. 176p. Contemporary brown morocco with richly gilt boards and spine. Bound by Taylor & Hessey with their stamp in blind on the rear endpaper. The firm employed a very talented, but anonymous fore-edge painter. Nicely printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press with six engravings.....
Edinburgh: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1812. Fourteen volumes. Early three quarter mottled brown calf gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers. Later edition of the collected works of these contemporaries of Shakespeare. The playwrights Beaumont and Fletcher were regarded in their time as two men so closely in harmony as.....
London: Methuen & Co, 1912. vi, [3], 2-325p, 31p. Original cloth with a gilt decorated spine and front board. Kept in protective dark blue cloth slipcase with a leather spine label. First edition with the Methuen catalog listing dated September 1911 bound at the end. A fresh clean copy.
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1912. Hardcover. Original dark green morocco with richly gilt spine and boards. Marbleized end papers and silk book mark. Binding signed Baynton Binder, Bath, Eng. Includes four sepia-tone plates. Some very light rubbing to the front hinge otherwise a fresh clean copy of a rather nicely.....
No Binding. Number 217. Two sided printing on a folio sheet. Paper foxed. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.
Philadelphia: The John S. Winston Company. 2 volumes. Frontispiece, 516p: 565p. Quarter polished blue calf with richly gilt spines over cloth boards. Nicely illustrated. Small binders stamp on the inside front blank marked "The Atelier Bindery for Charles Scribner & Sons" A fresh clean set in a very attractive binding.....
London: H. Haines, 1735. Hardcover. xxxi, 246p, [2]. Contemporary English calf with a gilt ruled spine and boards. Marbled end papers. Binders sticker "Wood, Binder Worcester" on the inside front end paper. Third Edition and dedicated to Sir Robert Walpole. Written by the English politician and political philosopher Viscount Henry.....
Edinburgh: John Bell Apollo Press, 1781. Hardcover. Engraved frontispiece, 192p. Contemporary calf with gilt ruled spine and red title label. From the Library of William Orr with armorial bookplate, but the name almost entirely scratched out. Later signature on the inside front blank and small ownership stamp on the inside.....
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1838. Hardcover. 4 volumes, [x], 676p, [1]; [iv], 632p; [iv], 626p; 571p+Index. Contemporary quarter calf with marbled end papers with the gilt monogram of the EARL OF MALMESBURY at the top of each spine. Probably James Howard Harris 3rd Earl of Malmesbury (1807-1889). ALSO INCLUDES.....
London: J. Torbuck. Hardcover. Engraved frontispiece, xxxvi, 253p, [7]. Modern half calf over marbled boards. The lower margin on the title page has been trimmed cutting off the print year. But, the collations seems to match the 1738 edition as cataloged in Keynes A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne #16.....
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1896. Hardcover. 51p. Contemporary green morocco with richly gilt spine and boards. Marbled end papers and inside dentelles with a gilt foredge. Gilt ruled boards with designs at each corners. The binding is stamped 'Mercier se de Cuzin' at the inside bottom of the front board.....
London: John Nimmo, 1889. xxviii, 243p. Publishers cloth over boards. Untrimmed edges. Nicely printed by Chiswick Press limited to 500 numbered copies whereof this is #418p. Headband worn and ink spot on the front board otherwise internally clean. Scarce. Old signature in pencil on the inside front blank.
London: Henry Bohn, 1854. Frontispiece, lxxxvi, 639p; iv, 638p, [8]. Contemporary calf with gilt ruled boards and the Arm of Harrow School on the boards. Marbled endpapers and gilt foredges. Incomplete. More published. School prize inscription on the front blank. Bound by Crossley & Clark with their stamp on the.....
London: Akerman, Walker & Co, 1822. Hardcover. lxxiv, 444p; 494p, Contemporary green calf with richly gilt spine and boards. Gilt fore edge. Includes twelve hand colored plates drawn by John Clark (1771-1863) Scottish aquatint engraver and painter. Some light offsetting from the plates, otherwise a fresh clean set. 8vo -.....
London: John Baker, 1710. Hardcover. Frontispiece, 199p, 167p, 226, [2], 393-410p, [18]. Contemporary calf. 17 plates including the frontispiece and foldout plates. From the Library of the 18th century Italian scholar and archaeologist, Giovanni Paolo Ricolvi (1712-1748) with his bookplate on the inside front board. Lower edges of the first.....
London: Hodgson & Co, 1822. Hardcover. x, 226p. Contemporary calf with a gilt spine and marbleized end papers. Includes Cantos i-v. Cantos i-2 were first published in 1819 and cantos iii-v were published in 1821. From the Library of the Knapp family with their anonymous bookplate on the inside front.....
London: John Murray, 1817. No Binding. 80p. disbound. Light foxing and small chip at the upper corner of the title page. Lacks half title. Light marginal foxing. Lowndes I p339. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.