New York & London: Doubleday, Oxford University Press & HarperCollins, 1983-2000. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. First editions. Original cloth. D/w of volume 1 worn at head and tail of spine. D/w of volume 3 is price-clipped with publisher's price sticker for £40. Volume 4 is foxed along the fore edge...
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 dust-wrappers. Volume 1 is published by Collins, volume...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1953. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Original brown quarter buckram with marbled paper boards, gilt. Without the original slipcase. Illustrated by Reynolds Stone. A fine set. 'The text and order of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a choice of modern readings noted marginally: to which...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1953. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Original brown quarter buckram with marbled paper boards, gilt. With the original slipcase and glassine wrappers. Illustrated by Reynolds Stone. Glassine wrappers 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. #818 or 1050 copies. Full tan niger morocco ruled and lettered in gilt. Raised bands on spines. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Minor worm damage to the bindings of volumes 1, 2 and 5...
London: Chatto and Windus in association with Cassell and Company, William Heinemann and Longmans Green and Company, 1911-12. 8vo. 25 volumes, set. Limited edition. Number 1490 of 2060 sets. Original red cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume. Spines uniformly slightly faded. A few corners...
London: A. Zwemmer, 1988. 4to. 2 volumes, set. First edition. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edges stained blue. Illustrated throughout in black and white. D/ws faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrappers.
London: Castle Press, 1948-50. 4to. 2 volumes, set. First editions. Original black cloth, gilt. Volume One: Jacket designed by Hans Tisdall, with illustrations by Mervyn Peake and Gertrude Hermes. Volume Two: Jacket drawn by Leslie Hurry, with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone and Lynton Lamb. Both volumes contain black and white...
London: Country Life, 1920-37. Folio. 9 volumes, set. First editions with the exception of Period II. Vol. I which is a second impression. Original quarter blue buckram with blue cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. (The blue of the buckram used varies owing to the length of time between...
Glasgow: The University Press, Glasgow, for The Limited Editions Club, 1938. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Limited edition. #791 of 1500 sets. Bound in linen, each volume lithographed with a design in colour by Barnett Freedman. Designed by John Easton. The type is Eric Gill's Perpetua and it is printed on...
London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. 12mo. 8 volumes, set. Navy half morocco over navy cloth, gilt, by Bickers & Son, Leicester Square. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Marbled endpapers. Tissue-guarded frontispiece photographic portrait of the author in The Warden. Slight discolouration to the cloth of both boards of Barchester...
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, 1948-54. Crown 8vo. 11 volumes, set. Firsts thus. First published between 1864 and 1880. Original brown buckram, gilt. Issued in powder blue slipcases in two volumes, except for The Duke's Children. With illustrations by Lynton Lamb, T.L.B. Huskinson, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Hector Whistler and...
Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1993. 4to. 2 volumes, set in slipcase. First edition. Original black cloth printed in bright blue. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrappers.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1952-1955. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edges stained blue. Jackets designed by Biro. Men at Arms: Small Foyle's label on rear pastedown. Price-clipped d/w is a bit faded on the spine with small loss to the tips and spine ends...
London: Country Life, [1910]-1925. 4to. 4 volumes, set. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and drawings. All volumes are a bit bumped and worn. Volume 1 is rubbed with loss to cloth at tail of spine and with discolouration along lower and leading edges. Remains...
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1952. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First published in this edition in 1941, this is the second impression. Original blue buckram, gilt. Bookplates on verso of flyleaves. Near fine.