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 on the rough, others untrimmed. Minor worm damage to the bindings of volumes 1...
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: Country Life, 1921-37. Folio. 9 volumes, set. Six volumes are first editions, the other three volumes (Periods II. Vol. I., III. Vol. I., and IV. Vol. I.) are second impressions from 1929. Original quarter blue buckram with blue cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. (The blue of the...
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...
Cambridge: The University Press, Cambridge, for The Limited Editions Club, 1951. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. #70 of a Limited Edition of 1500 copies. Decorative cloth boards. Top edges gilt. Slipcase with paper label. Illustrated with auto-lithographs by Barnett Freedman on 225 separate stones printed at The Curwen Press. Spines a....
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...
Stratford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1929. Crown 8vo. 14 volumes, set. Limited edition of 525 sets. Original green buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Gilt lettering dulled on spines. Each volume has the armorial bookplate of Hall of Otterburn, Northumberland and a Henry Sotheran label on the front paste...
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...