Tunbridge Wells: Longcross Press, 1996. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. D/w slightly faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. The first edition of this idiosyncratic but authoritative companion. 'Perhaps the last one-man reference work in the tradition of Dr Johnson.' I remember the late Simon.....
London: David Nutt, 1899. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Original dark maroon leather sides over red buckram, gilt. Spines faded to brown. Leather slightly scuffed. Armourial bookplate to each front paste down. Very good +. #XXI-XXII in the Tudor Translations First Series edited by W.E. Henley.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. Reprints. First published in 1941. Original green buckram, gilt. Ink inscriptions on front endpapers. Occasional pencil marks in the margins throughout to highlight passages. Near fine. Uncommon. Most sets went to libraries. The former owner has written on the front paste down.....