London: Scholastic (Point, David Fickling Books), 1995, 1997 & 2000. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First UK editions, first impressions. Original hardcovers (maroon, green, black). Northern Lights is in the first state jacket with 'Point' on the spine and rear flap. 1. This appears to be an ex-library copy. The spine.....
London: Macmillan, 1938. 8vo. 8 volumes, set. Limited edition. One of 630 sets. First complete edition. Original red buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Spines uniformly slightly faded. Covers a little spotted and rubbed. Light foxing to the endpapers and prelims. Very good +. Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville.....
London: William Heinemann, 1923-36. 8vo. 30 volumes, set. Limited edition. #63 of 530 sets (of which 500 were for sale). Signed by the author on the limitation page of volume 1. Numbered in each volume. Original quarter vellum with parchment boards, gilt. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed and partly unopened.....
Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press (volumes 1-3) & A & C Black (volume 4) for the Hakluyt Society, 1955-74. 8vo. & portfolio. 6 volumes, set. Original navy buckram, with a gilt block of Cook on each front board. Five volumes in d/ws and a portfolio. Illustrated throughout in black.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1963-8. 8vo. 11 volumes, set. First editions thus. Original various-coloured cloth, gilt. All but two in acetate or printed jackets. Top edges stained to match the cloth and/or the jacket. Illustrated by John Tenniel, Robert Micklewright, Charles Mozley, Margery Gill, Barry Driscoll, Susan Einzig, Edward Ardizzone.....
London: Faber & Gwyer (Faber and Faber), 1928-31. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. First editions thus. Original blue buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece to each volume. Spines faded. Very slight foxing to a few of the endpapers. Near fine. Volumes 1-4 were published by Faber & Gwyer in.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1953. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Original brown quarter buckram with marbled cloth boards, gilt. Three volumes of the Plays on a thin but opaque paper, one volume of the Poems on a matching japon vellum - both papers specially designed and made for this edition. Without.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. #793 of 1450 sets (there were also 90 copies in one volume on Oxford India paper). Original quarter parchment with brown Italian printed paper boards. Spine title gilt. All edges untrimmed. Title page printed within dark red border. 53 illustrations by.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Limited edition of 1375 sets (475 for Random House in the USA). #209. Original full niger morocco, flexibly sewn, with green oval in centre of each front cover placed within gilt surround and lettered gilt, 'Que scay-je?'. Raised bands on spine.....
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, 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 & 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 spines, 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.....
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, 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.....