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.....
London: William Heinemann, 1923-36. 8vo. 30 volumes, set. Limited edition. #426 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.....
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: William Heinemann & The Bodley Head, 1974-94. 8vo. 22 volumes, set. 9 first editions thus, the rest reprints. Original green cloth, gilt. Most top edges green. Jackets designed by Michael Harvey. Contents clean and fine. Vol. 8 has been bound upside down. Tiny stain to the top part of.....
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.....
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1903-05. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. First editions thus. Original navy cloth, lettered on the spines and with gilt emblems to the front boards. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Portrait frontispieces, except volume 12. 5 folding facsimile plates, 35 folding maps and plans, 55 plates etc......
London & Whitby: The IK Foundation & Company, 2007-12. Folio. 8 volumes, in 11 books, set. Limited edition. #261 of 300 sets. (There were also 700 sets of the standard edition.) Original greige cloth, printed in red and gold. Top edges gilt. Red marker ribbons. Together with two copies 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: 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: 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.....
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1934-6. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Original red cloth, gilt. Top edges stained red. Engravings by Eric Gill. Contents clean and without ownership marks. D/w spines uniformly darkened. A couple of tiny nicks. Volume 2 has a jacket from the leather edition. Fine in.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1957 & 1966. Crown 8vo. 3 volumes, set. Original grey buckram, gilt. Top edges stained blue. Unclipped d/ws are uniformly slightly tanned on the spines. Volume 1 has a couple of nicks to the top edge of the back panel. Fine in near fine d/ws. An.....
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.....
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1913-1938. 8vo. 31 volumes, set. Limited edition of 1050 sets (see note below). Signed on the half-title of volume 1. Original buff quarter cloth with pale blue paper boards. Paper labels to spines (and spare label inserted at rear of each volume). Top edges gilt.....
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: 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.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1947. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed and partially unopened. Endpapers very slightly foxed. Dust-wrappers on volumes 1 & 2 are unclipped. Near fine in near fine d/ws.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1984-2008. 8vo. 5 volumes, set. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fine in fine d/ws. Complete sets are very uncommon.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Limited edition of 1375 sets (475 for Random House in the USA). #190. 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: The Nonesuch Press, 1963. Crown 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. With reproductions of 105 of the sixteenth-century woodcuts of Bernard Salomon. A near.....
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.
London: Bell & Hyman, 1971-1983. 8vo. 11 volumes, set. The first three volumes are fourth impressions (first printed in 1970), the others are all first impressions. Original green buckram, gilt. Top edges stained green. Near fine in near fine d/ws. An handsome set of the definitive, unexpurgated, library edition...
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: 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.....