London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1880. 16mo. 12 volumes, set. 10 volumes of Poetical Works + 2 volumes of Dramatic Works. Publisher's red limp morocco. All edges gilt. In a modern red buckram hinged box with a printed paper label and marbled paper interior. A little loss to the.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1955. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. First editions. Original navy cloth, gilt. The top corners of the last two volumes are a little pushed. The jackets on the last four volumes are tanned on the spines and have a few nicks and marks. Volume 1 has the.....
London: Bell & Hyman, 1970-1983. 8vo. 11 volumes, set. First editions. Original green buckram, gilt. Top edges stained green. Volume 1 has a few light marks to the upper board. Most volumes are a little faded on the spine. Volume 5 has the pencil ownership of John L. Nevinson, and.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971. 8vo. Revised reprint. First published in 1935. Original navy cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/ws are faded on the spines and there are a few small, scattered marks on the back panel of volume 1. Fine in near fine d/ws. A smart set.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1963. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. Original light olive green cloth, gilt. Printed on India-paper specially made by Robert Fletcher and Son and with divisions marked by the insertion of Japon vellum leaves. In original acetate jackets. With reproductions of 105 of the sixteenth-century woodcuts of Bernard.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1968. 8vo. Four volumes, set. First editions of this revised translation. Original brick red cloth, black spine panels, gilt. Some light marking to the boards of volume 3. Near fine. Memoirs of a revolutionary in Tsarist Russia and self-imposed exile in various countries of Europe, including.....
London & New York: Constable & Co. Ltd and Gabriel Wells, 1924-34. 8vo. 10 volumes, set. Limited edition of 675 sets. Original plum cloth with black leather labels on the spies, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Portrait frontispieces. Spines a little faded. A few of the spine labels are.....
London: J. Wallis and Richard Phillips and Hurst, Robinson, and Co, 1803-24. 8vo. 26 volumes (bound as 25), set. Contemporary full polished tree calf with gilt tooling to the spines and red and black leather labels. Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood from Original Designs. Numerous illustrations throughout. Folding.....
Oxford: Basil Blackwell for the Shakespeare Head Press, 1926. 8vo. 10 volumes, set. Limited edition of 1030 copies (of which 1000 were for sale). Original brick red buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt. The first and last volumes of Tom Jones have been knocked towards the top of the spines. Covers.....
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd & Smith, Elder and Company, 1903-4. 8vo. 15 volumes, set. Limited edition of 775 copies. Contemporary full straight grain red morocco by Birdsall of Northampton, with five raised bands, gilt. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece in volume 1. Just a little scuffing.....
Paternoster-Row, London: H. D. Symonds, 1797-8. 8vo. 15 volumes, set. Uniformly bound in contemporary tree calf, gilt, with black leather spine labels, 'Barr's Buffon'. The first ten volumes are 'Quadrupeds' and the last five volumes are 'Birds'. Top edges stained brown, others yellow with red speckles. Numerous engraved illustrations throughout.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965-78. 4to. 3 volumes, set. Volumes 1 & 2 published in 1965, volume 3 in 1978. First editions. Original green buckram, gilt. Top edges stained green. Black and white photographic plate section at the end of volume 2. Volumes 1 & 2 have the book label.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. 4to. 2 volumes, set. First editions. Original brown buckram, gilt. Top edges stained brown. Colour frontispiece in each volume. Black and white photographic plate section in volume 2 and numerous drawings by the author. Nick to the top edge of the front panel of the.....
London: Lawrence & Bullen, Limited, 1904-8. Folio. 4 volumes, set. Rebound in uniform navy buckram, gilt. With Plates in Colour after Shirley Slocombe, and numerous Illustrations selected and arranged by the Author. Bindings a bit faded. Contents clean. A fine set. The last volume was originally to be called, 'The.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1984. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. Experiment in Autobiography (2 volumes) first published in 1934 and reissued for the first publication of H. G. Wells in Love. Original black hardcovers, silvergilt. Near fine in near fine d/ws. Experiment in Autobiography, subtitled 'Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. Reprints. First published in 1938. Original quarter green buckram, gilt, with paper-covered boards. Top edges stained grey. Map endpapers. Top edges lightly dust-spotted. Each volume has the attractive book label of Edward John Kenney (1924-2019), the Cambridge Latinist, on the front pastedown.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. 8vo. 5 volumes, set. Reprints. First published in 1924. Original black buckram, lettered in gilt. Frontispiece in each volume. Top edges a little dust-spotted. Each volume has the attractive book label of Edward John Kenney (1924-2019), the Cambridge Latinist, on the front pastedown hidden under.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Small 8vo. 21 volumes, set. Reprints. First published (as the New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) in 1948. Original quarter maroon cloth over maroon paper-covered boards, silvergilt. With original illustrations by 'Phiz', George Cruikshank, etc. About half the volumes, the longer novels, are a bit sprung at.....
London: Bell & Hyman, 1971-1983. 8vo. 11 volumes, set. Volume 1 is a third impression and volumes 2 & 3 are second impressions (first printed in 1970), the others are all first impressions. Original green buckram, gilt. Top edges stained green. All volumes are a bit cocked and shaken. There.....
London: Richard Bentley, 1861-2. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. First and Second Series each in 3 volumes. Uniform half green morocco with green cloth boards, gilt, by Hatchards. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Marbled endpapers. Folding pedigree of the Granville family, backed with linen, bound in at the front of.....