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: 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: 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.....
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.....
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: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1926-7. 12mo. 26 volumes (set?). Publisher's navy limp calf leather, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Just the tiniest amount of rubbing to the spines of a few volumes, otherwise in very fine condition. Many of the marker ribbons are frayed and some are.....
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.....
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. Tall 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Limited editions. #1144 of 1450 and #542 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: 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.....
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.....
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: 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: 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: 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: 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.....
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 & 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.....