Search results for: 'the works'
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SUTHERLAND, Graham. The Work of Graham Sutherland.
London : 1962
Second edition, first impression, first published in 1961. This work is a comprehensive selection of work by the renowned English artist. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 140376
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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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STEADMAN, Ralph; THE TONSILS. The Tonsils. Original 12-inch LP record inscribed.
[No place] : 2002
A maquette of The Tonsils first album, inscribed by Steadman across the wraparound band and sleeve, "Ralph Steadman, 23 Oct. 2002." The Tonsils was formed in the summer of 2001 by Sam Cave and Dave Walsh (also in The Explosion, another Tarantula Records band); their first album was completed in May 2002, and they commissioned Ralph Steadman to design... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 103951
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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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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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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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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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SMITH, Adam. The Works. With an Account of His Life and Writings by Dugald Stewart.
London : 1811-12
First edition of the complete collected works of Adam Smith, with a biography of the author by the Scottish philosopher and mathematician Dugald Stewart. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 107885
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works.
London : 1894
Reprint of the Cambridge Shakespeare which was first published in 1863. Editor William George Clark's "principal and most enduring work was the Cambridge Shakespeare (1863-6), mainly planned by him, with a complete collation of all the early editions, and a selection of emendations by later editors. Clark co-operated in the first volume with John Glover,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 121876
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Complete Works.
London and Boston : 1904-06
The Olympic limited edition, number 6 of 50 sets only. Copy number 1 was presented to the Keats-Shelley House in Rome. The effort to purchase and restore the apartment in which Keats spent his final days began in 1903, at the instigation of American poet Robert Underwood Johnson. In April 1909 it was opened under the aegis of the newly formed Keats-Shelley... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 138177
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SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works.
Edinburgh : 1821
Second collected edition of Scott's poetical works. A handsomely bound library set. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 120438
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Complete Works.
London : 1903
A charming set of the Oxford Miniature Edition. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 141139
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Complete Works.
Philadelphia : 1886
A handsomely bound set of Shakespeare's works. Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 142622
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works.
London : 1875
A handsomely bound set. Dyce was perhaps the leading Shakespeare scholar of the 19th-century. This collection was first published in 1857, with a second edition published in 1866. The present third edition was published six years after his death. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 122487
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works.
London, : 1908
The Larger Temple Shakespeare. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 134262
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SMOLLETT, Tobias. The Works.
New York : 1902
The Hand-Made Edition, deluxe limited edition, number 10 of 150 sets only. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 74446
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Dramatic Works;
London : 1790
First edition thus. Ayscough's third volume, entitled An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakspeare, is the first published concordance of Shakespeare's plays. The publisher John Stockdale paid 200 guineas for the index which was specifically designed to accompany Stockdale's two-volume edition of Shakespeare's plays. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 121099
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works.
London : 1911-2
First Lang edition, the Swanston Edition, number 1,977 of 2,060 sets. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 112903
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Dramatic Works.
London : 1812-15
First edition with these illustrations, large paper issue (also published in duodecimo). A most appealing edition of Shakespeare issued by the enterprising Thomas Tegg, presented here in a delightful and sparkling period binding. The illustrations by John Thurston have been described as "most attractive" (Peter Cannon-Brookes, The Painted Word: British... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 134889
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SHAW, Bernard. The Works.
London : 1930–38
Signed limited edition, one of 1,000 numbered set of which this is number 377. This set inscribed by Shaw on the limitation page in Volume 1: "and is inscribed to obliterated by G. Bernard Shaw". Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 138139
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Dramatic Works.
London : 1826
An exquisitely bound copy of this attractive Regency edition of Shakespeare, printed by Charles Corrall for the pioneering publisher William Pickering using his miniscule diamond type in double columns: the text is tiny but perfectly legible.
The plates were prepared for The Plays of Shakespeare in Pickering's 1825 "miniature classics" edition.... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 141562
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works, Vailima Edition.
New York : 1921-3
Vailima edition, number 93 of 1,030 sets for the United States, from a total limited edition of 2,090 sets. Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 134289
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works, Vailima Edition.
New York, : 1921-3
Vailima edition, number 714 of 1,030 numbered sets for the United States, out of a total edition of 2,090 sets. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 48444
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare.
London : 1802
First Boydell edition. This lavish edition was the brainchild of John Boydell (1720-1804), who had been responsible for the publication in mezzotint of some of the most impressive paintings of the period. He and his nephew Josiah Boydell conceived this set, with typography by Bulmer and paper by Whatman, to be embellished with one series of large and... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 137384
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works.
Stratford-upon-Avon : 1904
Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies printed on handmade paper of which this is number 905. A particularly handsome set. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 141717
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SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works.
Edinburgh : 1868
An attractively bound set. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 134431
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London : 1799
Ninth edition of Smith's highly influential work, which was first published in 1776. "The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading, critical and adulatory, long after the circumstances... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 134298
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SCHILLER, Friedrich. The Works.
London and Boston
Lyceum edition. Number 17 of 750 numbered and registered sets for America. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 114571
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works.
London : 1925
An attractive copy of Shakespeare's comedies. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 144120
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SCHOENBERG, Arnold. The Works.
London : 1962
First English language edition, first impression. Originally published in Germany in 1959. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 74888
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Complete Poetical Works.
London : 1885
A handsomely bound set of Percy Bysshe Shelley's complete poetry. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 144471
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London : 1799
Ninth edition of Smith's highly influential work, which was first published in 1776; all the 18th-century editions are rarely found uncut in the original boards. "The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 134295
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London : 1799
Ninth edition of Smith's highly influential work, which was first published in 1776. One of 2,000 copies printed according to Keith Tribe. "The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading,... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 118470
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Glasgow : 1805
An attractive early Scottish edition of Smith's great work, "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM). In his Wealth of Nations, Smith "begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 131415
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SHAKESPEARE, William. Dramatic Works.
London : 1842
A handsomely bound set of Shakespeare's works, edited by the classical scholar and printer A. J. Valpy (1787-1854). It features the same plates from the first Valpy edition, originally published between 1832 and 1834, which in turn reproduced John Boydell's plates from the Boydell edition, published between 1791 and 1805. John Boydell (1720-1804) was... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 138156
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SIDGWICK, Henry. The Principles of Political Economy.
London : 1883
First edition, along with The Elements of Politics (1891), one of two works representing "Sidgwick's attempt to bring professorial rigour and detachment to bear upon the major questions of policy and legislation. The Principles of Political Economy (1883) was an intellectually conservative work in two ways: first, its analytical or deductive method... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 108268
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SEUSS, Dr. Seuss From Then to Now,
New York : 1986
First Random House edition. Originally published as an illustrated catalogue for an exhibition of Dr. Seuss's works at the San Diego Museum of Art. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 121509
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London : 1793
Seventh edition of "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM), which reprints the introductions to the third and fourth editions; a handsomely bound copy in contemporary tree calf gilt.
In his Wealth of Nations, Smith "begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it.... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 144218
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Standard Edition of the Pictorial Shakspeare.
London : [1846]
A highly attractive set of Shakespeare's works, being the second edition of the profusely illustrated version of the Shakespeare scholar Charles Knight, following the first edition which had been published in part form from 1838 to 1841.
Knight (1791-1873) was already a Shakespeare lover and bibliophile in his teens, when he owned an imperfect... Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 128818
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SWIFT, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
London : 1726
The true first edition of Swift's masterpiece, the most famous of all imaginary voyages, and among the greatest literary works of the 18th century, one of the few works from that period to have such a continued wide readership and such enduring cultural significance.
"The clandestine business of getting into print a pseudonymous and satirically... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 144949
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London : 1784
First octavo edition, third overall (first 1776); a handsome set in an unostentatious but pleasing contemporary binding. This uncommon edition contains several additions including a new chapter titled "The Conclusion of the Mercantile System". This was the edition owned by Thomas Jefferson (Sowerby 3546).
In his Wealth of Nations, Smith "begins... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 144188
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SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Waverley Novels.
Boston : 1893-4
Edition de Grand Luxe of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels, number 352 of 500 super-deluxe sets. Estes and Lauriat also issued an "edition de luxe" of 1,000 sets, though this is the far grander and more limited edition, presented here as a magnificently bound library set. Though the bookplates in this set are numbered, sequentially, vols. 16-63 (presumably... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 87891
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Philadelphia : 1796
Second American edition, in an unrestored contemporary American binding, of the "greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM), following the first American edition of 1789, and its first publication in London in 1776. The volumes show evidence of early American ownership, the front free endpapers with the ownership signature and note of purchase... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 139123
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Prometheus Unbound.
London : 1820
First edition, second issue, with "miscellaneous" spelled correctly on contents leaf A3, in a handsome Riviere binding, of one of Shelley's most important works.
This lyrical drama revisits the Greek myth of Prometheus who, defying the gods, gave fire to humanity, resulting in his eternal punishment and suffering at the hands of Zeus. Inspired... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 144509
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SMITH, Adam. "Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages." In: The Philological Miscellany;
[London] : 1761
Rare first edition of The Philological Miscellany, all published, containing the first appearance in print of Adam Smith's "Considerations concerning the first formation of Languages, and the different genius of original and compounded Languages" (pp. 440-79), originally part of Smith's University Lectures on Rhetoric, a work of which Smith was, according... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 99764
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SERRES, Dominick, & John Thomas. Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing.
London : 1805-6
First edition. An excellent copy of probably the grandest English naval aquatint book, eight of the plates here being coloured, in Abbey's copy only plate XVII was coloured. Dominick and John Thomas Serres were father and son. The father was born at Auch in Gascony, and educated at the famous Benedictine academy in Douai, being intended for the clergy.... Learn More£16,500.00Stock Code: 63304
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S[ERGEANT], J[ohn]. The Method to Science.
London : 1696
First edition of one of the principal works of the Roman Catholic controversialist and philosopher John Sergeant (1623-1707). "A more thoroughgoing Aristotelian critique of Locke came from... John Sergeant, who, as a Catholic, stood outside the clerical assaults emanating from the established church. Sergeant's critique of Locke was part of a more wide-ranging... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 110050
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London : 1776
First edition, a superb copy by both binding and association: in its first binding - a beautiful and highly finished gilt contemporary calf - purchased and inscribed within a month of publication by Scottish physician and customs official Thomas Moffatt (c.1702-1787), shortly before emigrating from London to America. The first edition of the Wealth... Learn More£300,000.00Stock Code: 136834
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SENHOUSE, Roger; TRILLING, Lionel. The Middle of the Journey.
New York : 1947
First edition, first printing. Roger Senhouse's copy, sent to him by literary agents Pearn, Pollinger & Higham for the preparation of the first UK edition, published by Secker and Warburg the following year, and containing an illuminating collection of ephemera and correspondence exchanged between Senhouse, Frederic Warburg, Trilling, and critic Cyril... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 110965
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SCHLIEMANN, Heinrich. Five large original photographs of excavations at Troy (3), Mycenae (1) and Samothrace (1) - from the private collection of Heinrich Schliemann, with his holograph annotations.
Troy, Mycenae, Samothrace (present day western Turkey and Greece) : c.1879
Fascinating, unpublished and extremely scarce archive of four original photographs from Schliemann's pioneering excavations at Troy and Mycenae, and another of Samothrace, where work was conducted by Schliemann's compatriot Alexander Conze (1831-1914). The three views taken at Troy (1871-73) show the massive outer walls of King Priam's city on the left... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 121338
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SHAKESPEARE, William. [Othello.] Othllo.
Istanbul : 1293 [1876]
First edition in Ottoman Turkish, done by Hasan Bedreddin and Mehmet Rifat from the French translation of Jean-Francois Ducis, and performed 186777 in Gedikpasa theatre in Istanbul, the first theatre in Turkey where plays were performed by Turkish actors rather than travelling troupes. Shakespeare was becoming popular at this time, after the Armenians... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 131742
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SHAKESPEARE, William. Shakspeare's Dramatic Works:
London : 1830
An arresting example of the bookbinder's craft as the Georgian period drew to its close, and an exemplary demonstration of the care that the age was lavishing on the national playwright.
The text is the second Harness edition of Shakespeare (first published in 1825), the principal work of the literary scholar William Harness (1790-1869), who... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 129641
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SHAW, George Bernard. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets.
London : 1905
First English language edition, first impression. This issue also contains works by Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, and Sidney Webb. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 73417
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays.
London : 1823
New edition. A handsome set of Shakespeare's works. Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 132493
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SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Lyrics and Ballads.
London : 1894
An attractive copy of Scott's poetical works. Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 145592
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STEADMAN, Ralph. The Joke's Over.
London & Orlando : 2006
First UK and US editions, first printings, both signed on the half title by Steadman and each with a signed drawing by Kurt Vonnegut (on the dedication leaf in the UK edition, on the front free endpaper for the US edition). The Joke's Over was first published in the UK.
Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 144829
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SNOW, C. P. [Complete Strangers and Brothers series:]
London : 1940-70
All first editions, first impressions. Inscribed by the author to the title page of Homecomings "To Joan Hardinge with best wishes from C. P. Snow Sept 15/65/." This eleven-volume roman fleuve probably constitutes Snow's chief contribution to English letters, his critical writings notwithstanding. Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 136481
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STRANGWAYS, A. H. Fox. The Music of Hindostan.
Oxford : 1914
First edition. Strangways, musician and schoolmaster, travelled to India following his retirement from Wellington College in 1911, gathering material for a book "which continued to hold its place as an authoritative work at the end of the twentieth century" (ODNB). Scarce in the dust jacket. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 106951
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[SCOTT, Walter.] Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels.
London : 1834
New edition of this collection of landscape illustrations from Walter Scott's popular series of novels. Each plate is accompanied by an excerpt from the text and explanation of the image by the artist. Contributors include G. Cattermole, P. Dewint, J. D. Harding, and G. F. Robson, amongst other successful landscape artists, their work etched by the... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 118099