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(MERRYMOUNT PRESS) LAMB, Charles.
The Life and Works. [c. 1900]
£650
The Library Edition, one of a limited edition of 1000 sets printed on large paper by the Merrymount Press, considered the finest representative of Arts and Crafts publishing in the...
12 volumes, octavo. Recent tan half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, blue morocco labels, marbled sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and... Read more
COWPER, William.
The Life and Works. 1835 & 36
£475
Mixed set of first and second editions.
8 volumes, octavo (158 × 95 mm). Contemporary diced brown calf, spines gilt in compartments, red morocco labels, marbled endpapers and edges. Engraved... Read more
PAINE, Thomas.
The Life and Writings. 1908
£2,250
The Independence Edition of the Centenary Issue. Limited edition of 500 copies signed by the editor Daniel Edwin Wheeler.
10 volumes, octavo. Recent brown morocco, green morocco labels, decoration to spines, raised bands, roll to board, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed.... Read more
(NAPOLEON) [SCOTT, Sir Walter.]
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. 1827
£950
First editions, first impressions. In the aftermath of his financial crash, Scott travelled to France to begin research on his life of Napoleon. He was remarkably thorough in his...
9 volumes, octavo (178 × 105 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, title gilt direct to the spines, flat bands, spines gilt in compartments, triple rules to band... Read more
BOSWELL, James
The Life of Samuel Johnson. 1901
£1,950
Extra illustrated edition, bound by Riviere and Son.
7 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in full blue morocco, gilt titles, decoration, and raised bands to spine, double gilt rule to boards, decorative inner gilt dentelles,... Read more
BOSWELL, James
The Life of Samuel Johnson. 1848
£600
10 volumes, octavo. Bound in contemporary half brown calf, double brown and green labels, gilt decorated spines, marbled boards, endpapers, and edges. Some rubbing to boards and...
10 volumes, octavo. Bound in contemporary half brown calf, double brown and green labels, gilt decorated spines, marbled boards, endpapers, and edges. Some rubbing to... Read more
JOHNSON, Samuel.
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. 1810
£500
A later printing of the author's highly influential work of biography and criticism.
3 volumes, octavo (212 × 127 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, titles to spine gilt, black labels. Portrait frontispieces. Occasional light spotting and browning... Read more
STRICKLAND, Agnes.
The Lives of the Queens of England. 1841-8
£600
An attractive set of one of the most popular of all Victorian historical publications, a founding text in the new genre of popular history, though written with rigour and based on...
12 volumes, small octavo (194 × 120 mm). Contemporary green half calf, two burgundy morocco labels, decoration to spines, raised bands, matching cloth boards,... Read more
[CURTIS, Thomas]
The London Encyclopaedia, 1829
£1,750
First edition. Thomas Curtis had been involved in plans for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge as the original proposed editor, but the venture failed when...
22 volumes, octavo. Contemporary half calf by Preston of Nottingham, titles to spines gilt, marbled boards. With black and white illustrations throughout. Some light... Read more
HARDY, Thomas.
The Mayor of Casterbridge: 1886
£2,250
First edition.
2 volumes, octavo (185 × 120 mm). Near contemporary blue half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spines gilt in compartments, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, ruling to... Read more
GOLDSMITH, Oliver
The Miscellaneous Works 1820
£275
A handsomely bound library set.
4 volumes, octavo (210 × 126 mm). Contemporary brown calf panelled in gilt and blind, spines compartments in gilt and blind, black morocco labels, marbled... Read more
ADDISON, Joseph.
The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose. 1765
£210
4 volumes, octavo. Contemporary full dark tan calf, black and crimson morocco title labels, raised bands, title and floral decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, rule to boards...
4 volumes, octavo. Contemporary full dark tan calf, black and crimson morocco title labels, raised bands, title and floral decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, rule... Read more
SHAKESPEARE, William.
The National Shakespeare. [1904]
£875
The Special Edition with the India-proof impressions of the engravings.
3 volumes, folio. Original full green morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, titles and decorations blind and gilt to heavily embossed boards, inner dentelles... Read more
SMITH, Rev. Thomas.
The Naturalist's Cabinet: [1807]
£385
First edition.
6 volumes, small octavo (176 × 105 mm). Contemporary tan half calf, black morocco labels, decoration to spines, marbled boards, plain cream endpapers. Numerous... Read more
JAMES, William.
The Naval History of Great Britain, 1837
£4,250
A wonderful set, handsome on the shelf, and immensely enhanced by the addition of a wealth of visual material drawn from contemporary sources such as the Naval Chronicle, Brenton's...
6 volumes bound in 13, octavo (222 × 142 mm). Early twentieth-century navy blue three-quarter morocco, matching linen boards, title gilt direct to spines, raised... Read more
JAMES, William.
The Naval History of Great Britain, 1837
£1,250
A "monument of accuracy - it has stood the test of time and remains the best account of the naval side of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars" (Kemp, The Oxford Companion to Ships...
6 volumes, octavo (213 × 133 mm). Contemporary dark purple grained calf by Cross of Greenwich - tickets to pastedowns - double red morocco labels, raised bands... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The novels and letters. 1906
£6,000
Stoneleigh edition. Limited to 1,250 numbered sets.
12 volumes, octavo (207 × 136 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt,... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels and Letters. 1906
£2,750
The Chawton edition. Limited to 1,250 numbered copies.
12 volumes, octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With coloured... Read more
KINGSLEY, Charles.
The Novels and Poems. 1899
£3,750
Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 numbered copies and printed on japon vellum. With a letter written in the author's hand dated April 4 '71 tipped into the first volume. A...
14 volumes, octavo (214 × 139 mm). Contemporary dark blue crushed morocco, titles and decoration to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, elaborate... Read more
JAMES, Henry.
The Novels and Tales. 1907 - 1917
£12,500
The New York edition. The first collected edition complete with the two pendent volumes separately issued in 1917. Rare in such an attractive contemporary binding.
26 volumes, octavo (210 × 140 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in red half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, marbled boards and... Read more
JAMES, Henry.
The Novels and Tales. 1922
£7,500
Second New York Edition, the first and best collected edition of Henry James' works.
26 volumes, octavo. Recent full burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait... Read more
BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily & Anne.
The Novels. 1857-60
£7,500
First collected edition ("A New Edition", later referred to as the Uniform Edition). The binding is particularly attractive and sympathetic, approximating well to contemporary style...
7 volumes, small octavo. Finely bound to style in modern half calf, spines richly gilt in compartments between raised bands, red title labels, black author labels,... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. 1911
£5,750
The Winchester edition; considered the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane Austen's works produced around this time. In this enlarged issue, the set has two...
12 volumes, octavo (205 × 136 mm). Finely bound by Bumpus Ltd in green half calf, titles and elaborate decoration to spines separated by raised bands, green cloth... Read more
RICHARDSON, Samuel.
The Novels. 1901
£3,950
A very handsome set of the novels of Samuel Richardson. One of a limited edition of twenty named sets, this being the "Samuel Johnson" set.
20 volumes, octavo. Publisher's full red morocco, spines gilt in compartments, boards elaborately blocked in gilt with green morocco onlays, red morocco doublures with... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels. 1923
£3,750
Large paper edition. Limited to 1,000 sets of which 950 are for sale.
7 volumes, octavo. Recent tan morocco, double morocco labels burgundy and green, decoration to spines, single rules to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt,... Read more
