Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. Tall 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Limited editions. #1199 of 1450 and #903 of 1300, respectively. Bound on flexible back in full tan niger morocco with cloth joints, gilt. Bottom and fore-edge untrimmed, top edge trimmed and gilt. Marbled endpapers. Printed in Monotype Cochin and Jan.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1960-77. 8vo. 8 volumes, set. First editions. Original green cloth, gilt. The cloth of the 5 volumes published in the 1960s is a different colour to that used for the 3 volumes from the 1970s. They were published out of sequence. Some very slight rubbing to.....
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962-5. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. First impressions of volumes 3 & 5-12. Volumes 1 & 2 are third impressions. Volume 4 is a second impression. Original grey cloth, gilt. Top edges stained purple. The fly of volume 7 is stuck to the front paste down. Volume 6.....
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962-4. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. Volumes 1 & 2 are second impressions, the rest are first impressions. Original grey cloth, gilt. Top edges stained purple. Volumes 1 & 2 have very slight staining to the foot of the spine. Lacks the colourful d/ws. Near fine. The standard.....
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1907-13. 8vo. 24 volumes, set. First editions. Original green buckram with lettering and floral design in gilt to the spines and a gilt embossed floral roundel on the front boards. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Tissue-guarded photogravure frontispiece to each volume by Alvin Langdon Coburn.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1993-94. 8vo. 5 volumes, set. Volumes 1-3 are second impressions, volumes 4 &5 are first impressions. Original grey buckram, gilt. Mint in d/ws. The standard edition of the letters with index and appendices.
London: Harvill Secker, 2012-2018. 6 volumes, set. First UK editions, first impressions. Original hardcovers. Volume 6 has a silk marker ribbon. Mint in d/ws. Time to make your own mind up about this opinion-dividing sequence? Lots of time.
London: John Lehmann, 1948-9. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Original ochre and buff cloth, gilt. D/ws by Keith Vaughan and John Minton. Illustrated throughout both volumes with drawings and black and white photographic plates. Volume 1: Slight foxing to edges of text block. Frontispiece and title page browned as usual (cheap.....
London: John Lehmann, 1948-9. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Original ochre and buff cloth, gilt. D/ws by Keith Vaughan and John Minton. Illustrated throughout both volumes with drawings and black and white photographic plates. Volume 1: Frontispiece and title page browned as usual (cheap paper). D/w rubbed and dust-soiled with a......
London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co, 1828-32. 12mo. 5 volumes, set. Mixed editions. First published between 1824 and 1832. Volume 1. fifth edition, 1830; volume 2. new edition, 1829; volume 3. third edition, 1828; volume 4. first edition, 1830; volume 5. second edition, 1832. Uniform black half-leather over marbled boards, gilt.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First editions. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edges stained blue. Jackets designed by Michael Harvey. Fine in fine d/ws.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1968. 8vo. Second impression. First published in 1932. Original navy cloth, gilt. Spines of d/ws a bit faded. Fine in near fine d/ws.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, 1950 & 1959. 8vo. Three volumes, set. First editions. Recently rebound in full maroon leather, gilt. With marbled endpapers. In cloth-covered slipcase. Illustrations by the author to title pages of the first two volumes and a frontispiece to the last. Slight foxing to fore edge.....
London: Allen Lane (The Penguin Press), 2002. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Firsts thus. Original black cloth, gilt. The slipcase is very slightly rubbed. Fine in fine d/ws. Each volume has a separate translator (Lydia Davis, James Grieve, Mark Treharne, John Sturrock, Carol Clark and Peter Collier, & Ian Patterson). The.....
London & New York: Collins, Oxford University Press & HarperCollins, 1983-2000. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. First editions. Original cloth. Heads and tails of spines gently pushed with light wear to d/ws. D/w of volume 3 is price-clipped. Near fine in near fine d/ws. Volume 1 is published by Collins, volume.....
London: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1834. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. First editions. Later cross-grained maroon full morocco with titles to spines and 'R.H. More' signature in gilt to each front board. Top edges gilt. Covers very slight rubbed at edges. Ink presentation inscription dated 1873 to half-title of volume.....
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.....
London: Heinemann, 1966-75. 8vo. First editions except for volume 2 which is a second impression from 1975. The d/w of volume 1 is from about 1975, with reviews of all four novels on the back panel, and was produced for a smaller book. Original hardcovers, gilt. The d/ws of volumes.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1953. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Original brown quarter buckram with marbled paper boards, gilt. With the original slipcase and glassine jackets. Illustrated by Reynolds Stone. Glassine jackets have several very short closed tears. The slipcase is a bit worn. A lovely set in near fine condition.....
[London] & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House Inc., 1929-33. 8vo. 7 volumes, set. #1188 or 1050 copies. Full tan niger morocco ruled and lettered in gilt. Raised bands on spines. Top edges gilt on the rough, others untrimmed. Just a tiny amount of rubbing to the spines.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1973. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. D/ws price-clipped with a little rubbing to edges and a nick at the head of the spine of volume 1. Fine in near fine d/ws.
London: Heinemann & Picador, 1992-2011. 8vo. 5 volumes, set. First editions, first impressions. Original hardcovers. Volumes 1-3 published by Heinemann, 4 & 5 by Picador. Volumes 3-5 signed in ink on the title page. The spine of the d/w of Never Mind is very slightly faded. The foot of the.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Neat ink ownership on fly of volume 2. D/ws a bit faded and tanned to the spines. A couple of tears to the bottom edge of the front panel of the d/w of volume 2.....
London & New York: Eyre & Spottiswoode and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929-31. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. Limited edition. #256 of 976 (including 26 lettered A to Z). Later half brown morocco over light brown cloth with five raised bands, tan leather labels in two compartments on each spine and hunting.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1982-90. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. Original blue black cloth, gilt. The jacket of volume 1 is clipped and slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/ws. The first collected edition of Tennyson's letters remains the standard work. Uncommon as complete sets.