Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1880-1. 8vo. 8 volumes in 7, set. Contemporary half vellum, gilt, over red and black marbled boards. Dark blue leather labels, gilt, at the top of each spine. All edges marbled and matching endpapers. Wood-engraved illustrations in the first five volumes and vignettes...
London: David Nutt, 1901. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Original dark maroon leather sides over red buckram, gilt. Spines slightly faded. Leather slightly scuffed. Bookplate to each front paste down. Very good +. #XXVII-XXXII in the Tudor Translations First Series edited by W.E. Henley. The bookplates are of Dr. James Curle...
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...
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1919-20. 8vo. 37 volumes, set. Limited edition of 500 sets, signed by the author in volume 1. Original navy cloth, with gilt oak and acorn design to the spines and a gilt oak and acorn roundel with Hardy's initials to each upper board. Top edge...
London: David Nutt, 1890-92. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. First editions. Extra-illustrated with 384 portraits and plates. List of extra illustrations tipped in to the front of volume 1. Original maroon buckram with black leather labels to the spines, gilt. Spines faded and covers rubbed and marked. Some offsetting from the...
London: Country Life, 1955-8. 4to. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original green buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Volumes 1 & 3 have no d/ws. Both are slightly faded on the spines and with a few light marks. Volume 2 is in a rubbed...
London: Country Life, 1955-63. 4to. 3 volumes, set. Early and Late are first editions, Mid is a second, revised edition from 1963. Original green buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Spines uniformly faded. Small ink stamp 'AB' to front endpaper and title page of...
London: The Bodley Head, 1970-79. 8vo. 11 vols, set. 4 volumes are first editions thus, the others are second impressions. First published 1967-74. Original teal cloth, lettered in gilt. Volumes 1 and 8-11 have price-clipped d/ws with a blue tint, the other d/ws are off-white. The d/ws of volumes 8-10...
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...
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 dust-wrappers. The standard edition of the letters with index and appendices.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1952. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original maroon cloth, gilt. D/ws price-clipped, faded on spines and edge worn. Tear to d/w of volume 1 at the top of the spine. Near fine in very good + dust-wrappers.
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1913-1919. Crown 8vo. 25 volumes, set. Limited edition of 1050 sets. Signed on the half-title. Original buff quarter cloth over pale blue boards. Paper labels to spines (and spare label inserted at rear of each volume). Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Silk marker ribbons. Printed...
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1913-1919. Crown 8vo. 25 volumes, set. Limited edition of 1050 sets. Signed on the half-title. Original buff quarter cloth over pale blue boards. Paper labels to spines (and spare label inserted at rear of each volume). Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Silk marker ribbons. Printed...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911-45. 12mo. 37 volumes, set. Publisher's limp red/burgundy leather, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Some volumes illustrated. Eight volumes are in their original d/ws. Bindings generally near fine with just trivial rubbing to the spine ends and some slight fading to the spines. Some.....
London: Harvill Secker, 2012-2018. 6 volumes, set. First UK editions, first impressions. Original hardcovers. Volume 6 has a silk marker ribbon. Mint in dust-wrappers. 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....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974-81. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. First editions. Original brown buckram, gilt. Top edges stained pink. Frontispiece to each volume. Fine in fine dust-wrappers.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1984-2008. 8vo. 5 volumes, set. Original navy cloth, gilt. Slight speckling to the top edges of the text block otherwise fine in fine dust-wrappers. Complete sets are very uncommon.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Revised second edition. First published in 1973. Original black cloth, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrappers. A critical old-spelling edition of the complete works. Volume 1 contains Dido, Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta, The Massacre at Paris. Volume 2...
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...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Limited edition of 1375 sets (475 for Random House in the USA). #87. 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: Frances Lincoln, 2007. 4to. 3 volumes, set. First complete English language edition. Original buff cloth, gilt. In card slipcase. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrappers and slipcase.
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 green slipcase with cut away sides. With reproductions of 105 of the sixteenth-century...
Edinburgh: James Thin, The Mercat Press, 1971. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Facsimile reprint of the 1805 edition of Ossian with notes and illustrations by Malcolm Laing. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Original blue cloth, gilt. Spines slightly faded. Small mark to each front board where a price sticker has been removed. Near fine.