Search results for: 'the works'
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THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. The Sporting Magazine.London : 1793-1870 & 1892
First editions of the first periodical devoted to general sportsmanship, The Sporting Magazine, issued from 1793 until 1870. This complete collection provides an invaluable resource, reflecting the changes in society and attitudes across the turn of the century, and placing them in relation to the pastimes and sports of British society. Each volume... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 128768
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. The Works.London : 1903
A particularly handsomely bound set of Goethe's works. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 117225
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JACKSON, Lady Catherine Charlotte. The Works.c.1899
Édition des Aquarelles. Limited to 26 numbered copies for England and America. Lady Jackson (1824-91) was the wife of diplomat Sir George Jackson, known for accompanying Sir Charles Stuart to Germany and entering Paris with him in 1815, and for his efforts to abolish the slave trade. After his death she edited his papers for publication and then turned... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 61558
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GAUTIER, Theophile. The Works.New York : 1900
Japanese imperial vellum edition. Limited to 180 numbered copies. Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 62905
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MATHERS, E. Powys (ed.) The Book of the Thousand and One NightsLondon : 1923
First edition thus, limited issue, number 177 of 750 copies on antique paper; there were also 1,500 copies printed on Bond paper. This privately-printed edition of the Arabian Nights was translated into English by Edward Powys Mathers (1892-1939).
Mathers's translation influenced a number of modernist writers, including W. B. Yeats, who "admired... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 146289
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (trans.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faustus: from the German.London : 1821
First edition in English of Goethe's Faust, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The book is most often met with in the publishers' reddish-brown paper boards, the flimsy backstrip having perished. This copy, however, has an attractive contemporary polished calf binding by the London binder Charles Murton, who Ramsden notes specialised in blind stamping.... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 134583
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SCOTT, Sir Walter and others. The Cambridge Edition of the Poets.Boston and New York : [1900]
A handsomely bound set with works by Byron, Shelly, Wordsworth and Keats. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 114133
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ARNOLD, Matthew. Poetical Works.London : 1910
Handsomely presented copy of Arnold's complete poems, first published in 1890. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 140552
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GORE, Catherine. New Year's Day, A Winter's Tale.London : [1846]
First edition, in a beautiful signed Kelliegram binding, with their signature onlay illustration, of the second of three Christmas books by Catherine Gore.
The "Kelliegram" binding was one of the many innovations of English commercial binding firm Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family had one of the longest connections in the history of the binding... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 143157
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NOLHAC, Pierre de, and others. James I and VI; Queen Anne; Marie Antoinette; Empress Josephine; Queen Victoria.Paris : 1897-1906
First editions and first editions in English. A handsomely bound set of these lavishly produced biographies, published by Goupil & Cie, the leading art dealership in 19th-century France. James I and Queen Anne are number 420 and 93 respectively from a limited edition of 800 copies on fine paper. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 111444
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works.London : 1937-39
The Sussex Edition, number 101 of a limited edition of 525 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf of vol. I. In his last years and with his health failing Kipling continued the gathering-up of existing material that resulted in "the great retrospective work... the Sussex Edition of his works, undertaken by Macmillan as a monument to one of... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 130733
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works.London : 1937-39
The Sussex Edition, number 14 of 525 sets signed by the author in volume I, this set in notably attractive condition. In his last years Kipling gathered existing material to create "this great retrospective work... the Sussex Edition of his works, undertaken by Macmillan as a monument to one of the firm's most profitable authors" (The Letters, p. 231).
"The... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 143836
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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS: SPENSER, Edmund. The Works.Oxford : 1930
Shakespeare Head Edition, number 183 of 375 sets printed on handmade paper and bound thus, with hand-coloured woodcuts by Hilda Quick. The edition, with the text newly prepared, is one of the Press's crowning achievements, this being a particularly appealing unopened copy. A further eleven copies were issued on vellum.
Hilda Quick (1895-1978)... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 142984
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JONSON, Ben. The Works.London : 1875
An attractively bound late reprint of the Gifford edition of Jonson's works, originally published in 1816. "Gifford's editorial work as a textual scholar is accomplished. He produced various editions of English dramatists Gifford's most notable textual work was on Jonson, of whom he was a fierce partisan. His edition contains forthright attacks on... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 104284
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JOHNSON, Samuel. The Works.Oxford : 1825
A handsomely bound set of Samuel Johnson's works, part of Pickering's Oxford English Classics series. The edition was superintended by Francis Pearson Walesby (1798-1858), professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford. The work was initially intended as a nine volume series; a supplementary two volumes of Johnson's debates brought the total to... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 122841
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Works.New York : [1903]
The Author's edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies of which this is number 241 with an autograph letter signed by Doyle and dated 4.2.04 tipped to the binder's front blank in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A rare US issue which, unlike the UK edition, includes The Hound of the Baskervilles. A handsome set.
The author wanted a set that... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 147024
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works in Prose and Verse.London : 1919-31
The Wessex Edition, the definitive edition of Hardy's works, and a finely bound set. Macmillan became Hardy's publishers in 1902 and "in 1912 they undertook a new and definitive edition, called (at Frederick Macmillan's suggestion) the 'Wessex Edition'. For this edition Hardy revised his novels throughout for the last time In a 'General Preface to... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 125755
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The First Collected Works. Centenary Limited Edition.London : 1973-6
First complete collected edition, one of 1,750 sets published. The Centenary Edition is the only full collected works of Winston Churchill, reproducing his 50 books in 34 volumes. The Library of Imperial History went bankrupt before the projected run of 3,000 sets could be completed, so "the print run never exceeded 2,000 copies and only 1,750 sets... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 129564
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The First Collected Works. Centenary Limited Edition.London : 1973-76
First complete collected edition, number 853 of 1,750 sets. The Centenary Edition is the only full collected works of Winston Churchill, reproducing his 50 books in 34 volumes. The Library of Imperial History went bankrupt before the projected run of 3,000 sets could be completed, so "the print run never exceeded 2,000 copies and only 1,750 sets were... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 137778
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.New York : [early 1900s]
A beautifully bound set of the collected works of Dickens, with illustrations throughout.
Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 68471
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FLAUBERT, Gustave. The Complete Works.New York and London : 1904
The Mazarine Edition, number 173 of 750 sets. An attractive set of Flaubert's collected works. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 145329
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POE, Edgar Allan. The Works.New York : 1903
The Autograph edition, one of a limited edition of 150 numbered copies signed by the editors and publisher on the limitation leaf. The set collects all of Poe's works together with a biographic memoir and six volumes of literary criticism. Editors Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry were both well-known poets, literary critics, and scholars.... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 103856
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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Complete Works,Cambridge, Massachusetts : 1883
The Riverside edition, a very handsome set of the complete works of Hawthorne. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 140414
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FREUD, Sigmund. The Complete Psychological Works.London : 1975
A complete set of the Hogarth Press's Standard Edition. This is the most authoritative collection of the psychoanalytical works of Freud, edited by James Strachey, a former student of Freud's and member of the Bloomsbury Group. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 133926
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SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. The Works.London : 1821
First edition of the collected works of this enduringly popular playwright, edited by his first biographer, the poet Thomas Moore. A very pretty set from the Vane Londonderry library, monogram gilt to the head of the spine, elaborate armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. On marriage to Frances Anne Emily Vane-Tempest, Charles Stewart, third marquess... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 139633
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GRAY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1814
First edition edited by Thomas James Mathias (1753-1835). "Mathias derived considerable knowledge of Thomas Gray from the Revd Norton Nicholls, on whose death in 1807 Mathias composed a letter of eulogy. Mathias was a beneficiary of Nicholls's will. In 1814 he published an edition of The Works of Thomas Gray in two quarto volumes, with substantial prose... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 135310
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MORRIS, William. The Collected Works.London : 1910
The best collected edition of the works of William Morris, including introductions by the author's daughter, May Morris. One of a limited edition of 1,050 numbered sets and very attractively bound. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 68521
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MORRIS, William. The Collected Works.London : 1910
A handsomely bound set of the best collected edition of the works of William Morris, including introductions by the author's daughter, May Morris. One of a limited edition of 1050 numbered sets of which this is number 259. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 136121
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KEATS, John. The Poetical Works and Other Writings.New York : 1938
The Hampstead edition, the best collected edition of Keats's works and a very handsomely bound set. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 68671
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere.London : [c.1840]
An attractively bound set of Shakespeare's works. The publisher and writer Charles Knight (1791-1873) was already a Shakespeare lover and bibliophile in his teens, when he owned an imperfect First Folio which he made up by printing the missing pages from a facsimile edition. "His first major project as an author took shape in 1837, when he resolved... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 130360
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Works.New York : 1903
Limited edition, number 15 of 250 sets printed on Enfield paper. This collection demonstrates Thackeray's "skill in speech, his vivid characters... the biting, rollicking satire of the early works" through to the "shrewder, more subtle, and more philosophical" later works (ODNB).
Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 120108
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COLLINS, Wilkie. The Works.New York : [c.1890]
Only collected edition, rare, of the collected works of Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), novelist, playwright, friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens. A handsomely bound set. Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 99778
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WILDE, Oscar. The Works.London : 1908-22
First collected edition of Wilde's works, limited to 1,000 sets on handmade paper, including For Love of the King: a Burmese Masque, a play supposedly by Wilde but in fact forged by the Irish author Mabel Cosgrove.
The texts for this edition were mostly taken from the last editions to be supervised by the author. Copyright in The Picture of... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 103391
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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Works.London : 1832-3
An attractive library set of Byron's works, complete with the three Don Juan volumes added to the edition, including all his poems and plays, letters and journals, and the Life by his friend Thomas Moore. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145033
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LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Works.Boston & New York : 1886-1904
A handsome set of Longfellow's poetical works is in eleven volumes: prose works in two volumes, Dante's Divine Comedy in three volumes, and the author's Life edited by Samuel Longfellow in three volumes. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 138119
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POE, Edgar Allan. The Poetical Works.London : 1853
First edition thus, under the title of "The Poetical Works", published as part of Addey's Illustrated Classics series, this one dedicated to Rossetti. Hannay's collection was seen as the definitive collection of Poe's poetry, and "maintained its popularity for decades". An attractive early illustrated edition; preceded only by Vizetelly's Tales (1852).... Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 144318
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Works.London : 1884 & 1893
An attractive early set of Tennyson's works in a Zaehnsdorf exhibition binding. Collected editions of Tennyson's works began to appear in 1870; the canonical complete works was published in the 1907 to 1908 Eversley edition, edited by the author's son Hallam. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 139099
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IRVING, Washington. The Works.New York : 1891-97
The Knickerbocker Edition of the Irving collected works, attractively bound. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 145030
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Complete Works.London : 1913
A handsomely bound copy including his poems and sonnets. "After retiring from teaching, Craig devoted himself to reading, research, and publication in the area of Shakespeare studies In 1894, he edited the complete works of Shakespeare in one volume with a brief glossary and an appended 'Index of characters' as well as an 'Index of first lines of songs,... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 145221
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TWAIN, Mark. The Works.New York : 1911
The Author's national edition. The complete collected works of Twain very handsomely bound in full burgundy morocco.
Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 111591
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Works.London : 1921
Signed limited edition, number 347 of 780 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf in volume 1. The definitive collected works of Conrad, including his own notes on his writings prepared especially for this edition. A handsomely bound set. Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 125724
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DEFOE, Daniel The Works.New York : 1905
The Hand-Made Edition, number 41 of 150 copies of this deluxe set of Defoe's works, in a beautiful morocco binding.
This set is beautifully bound by the bindery of Whitman Bennett in New York. Bennett (18831968) spent his youth as successful film producer and director for Famous-Lasky and Paramount Studios, working on some of the most... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 144142
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POPE, Alexander. The Works.London : 1770
A highly attractive set of Alexander Pope's writings. Before his death Pope began the task of bringing together and editing his collected works, with his friend William Warburton finishing the project and seeing it through the press in 1751. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 126010
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FIELDING, Henry. The Works.London : 1882.
A handsomely bound set of the works of Henry Fielding, edited and with a biographical essay by Leslie Stephen, the literary critic and father of Virginia Woolf. One of a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies for sale in Europe and 250 copies for sale in the US. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 68476
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works.London : 1891-3
A beautifully bound set of the second edition of the Cambridge Shakespeare, which was edited by William Aldis Wright and "remains the great monument to his industry and accuracy... It was in his nature to be silent about poetic beauty and dramatic genius; but learning, accuracy, and common sense combined to make him one of Britain's greatest Shakespearian... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 139097
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GALSWORTHY, John. The Works.1922-36
The Manaton Edition, the first collected edition of Galsworthy's works. One of a limited edition of 780 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf in volume I. Very handsomely bound. Learn More£5,950.00Stock Code: 68429
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HOGARTH, William. The Life and Works.Philadelphia : 1900
The Commemorative edition, number ten of ten copies printed and specially bound by the publishers, this set produced for Alice S. Timayenis with her name printed on the limitation page in each volume and signed by Barrie on a tipped-in leaf at the front of volume I; with the plates in three states, printed on "India paper, Japanese vellum, and papier... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 118680
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MONTAIGNE, Michel de; William Hazlitt (ed.) The Complete Works.London : 1842
First Hazlitt edition of the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne's collected works, gathering his influential essays and letters. The present essays were originally published between around 1570 to 1592, and cover a wide variety of topics, from religion, philosophy, and classics, to solitude, age, drunkenness, anger, books, imagination, and many... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 140342
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TOLSTOY, Count Lyof N. The Novels and Other Works.London : 1934
Tolstoy Centenary edition. A beautiful library set of the complete works of Tolstoy. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 126121
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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Works.London : 1832-3
An attractive library set of Byron's works, complete with the three Don Juan volumes added to the edition, including all his poems and plays, letters and journals, and the Life by his friend Thomas Moore. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 127332
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HUXLEY, Thomas H. The Works.New York : 1894
Author's edition, one of 1,000 numbered sets collecting works by the British biologist and science educationist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895). "Huxley published over 400 essays, papers, letters, reviews, and books. Many of his papers on invertebrate anatomy and vertebrate palaeontology were amassed by Foster and Lankester into five volumes as The... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 115182
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : [c.1890]
A handsomely bound set of the Library Edition of Dickens's collected works. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 107311
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BURNS, Robert. The Works.Edinburgh : 1877-9
First William Scott Douglas edition, here handsomely bound and abundantly extra-illustrated, described by ODNB as a "splendid, six-volume library edition. The poems in this edition are arranged chronologically, and while it was the most sumptuous yet published it was also the most complete and correct regarding both text and notes".
Douglas... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 139102
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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Works.London : 1832-3
An attractive library set of Byron's works, complete with the three Don Juan volumes added to the edition, including all his poems and plays, letters and journals, and the Life by his friend Thomas Moore. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 139270
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WELLS, H. G. The Works.London : 1924-7
Signed limited "Atlantic" edition, the preferred "London" issue, number 491 of 620 sets signed by the author on the limitation page of vol. I, for sale and distribution in Britain. A further 1,050 sets were produced and signed for the American issue, and are by far the more common of the two issues. The Atlantic edition is the finest collected edition... Learn More£18,750.00Stock Code: 129483
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ELIOT, George. The Works.Edinburgh & London : [c.1880]
The Cabinet edition. This handsome set includes Eliot's seven novels and other literary works including, The Spanish Gypsy and Scenes of Clerical Life. Four volumes, which include the Life of George Eliot, were published later for the Cabinet Edition, but are not present in this set.
Eliot's novels were popular for their political views and... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 138206
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works.London : 1904-28
An attractively bound set of Kipling's works. With three of the volumes containing Barrack-Room Ballads, Departmental Ditties, The Years Between, Songs from Books, The Seven Seas and The Five Nations published by Methuen. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 145156
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MARLOWE, Christopher. The Works.London : 1826
First collected edition of Marlowe's plays. After two centuries where Marlowe had been practically forgotten and mostly out of print, the early 19th-century saw a flood of editions of Marlowe's works, building on the renewed interest engendered by the publication of Charles Lamb's Specimens of English Dramatic Poets in 1808, in which he had commended... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 136072
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works.New York : 1901
A handsomely bound set of the Thistle Edition, complete as issued, and containing the author's novels, satirical sketches and letters. The present edition was issued in 24 volumes from 1895 to 1899 and comprises 22 volumes of Stevenson's works with 2 volumes of his letters. Three more volumes (Stevenson's biography and more of his letters) were published... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 102346
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MOORE, Thomas. The Works.Paris : 1823
A handsome set from the collection of Charles Dickens with his bookplate and sale label to the front pastedown of each volume. The bookplates bear an illustration of a lion holding a star; the sale labels read, "From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870". Dickens purchased Gadshill Place in Kent in 1856 and lived there until he... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 138608
