Search results for: 'the works'
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DARWIN, Erasmus. The Poetical Works.London : 1806
First edition of this posthumous collection placing Darwin's exuberant and eccentric inquiry into the Linnaean system in rhyming couplets alongside his poetic speculations on evolution, the whole much enlivened by numerous plates including a number by Blake and Fuseli. A wide-margined, ?large paper copy in a handsome Regency binding from the library... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 141677
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LYTTELTON, George, Lord. The Works.London : 1776
Third and best octavo edition (with the index), first published in 1774 and gathering various political pieces, Lyttelton's "Letters from a Persian in England to his friend in Ispahan", his very popular Dialogues of the Dead, co-written with the bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, a smattering of poems, and a collection of letters to his father Sir Thomas... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 116436
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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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RICHARDSON, Samuel. The Works...London : 1811
First collected edition of the author whom Jane Austen "knew... by heart" (ODNB); Anna Laetitia Barbauld called him "the father of the modern novel of the serious or pathetic kind". The editor was Dublin-born Edward Mangin (1772-1852), of Huguenot origins, a contemporary of Southey at Oxford, ordained into the Irish church; he published several volumes... Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 26106
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CARROLL, Lewis. The Complete Works.London : 1939
First collected edition, first impression. A handsomely bound copy of Carroll's works. Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 129190
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ELIOT, George. The Works.Boston & New York : [c.1890].
A handsomely bound set of Eliot's works. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 114156
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BARRIE, J. M. The Works.1888-1919
First editions of all works except Der Tag, which is a second edition. A handsome set. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 18330
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1920
The Mellstock edition, one of 500 sets signed by the author on the limitation page of volume I. The Mellstock is one of the most attractive collected editions of Hardy, printed in a clear and legible type, this copy in an attractive binding in lovely condition.
At Hardy's suggestion the edition was named after his fictional "Mellstock",... Learn More£18,750.00Stock Code: 144165
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LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Complete Works.Boston : 1873
A handsomely bound and illustrated set of Longfellow's works. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 138407
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MOLIÈRE. The Dramatic Works.Edinburgh : 1875
A handsomely bound set of Molière's works. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 114570
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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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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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STERNE, Laurence. The Works.London : 1793
Early edition of Sterne's collected major works, which were first published from 1760, in an attractive Morrell binding to style. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 146201
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CARROLL, Lewis. The Complete Works.New York : [c.1940]
A handsomely bound volume of Carroll's works complete in one volume. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 139188
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Works.London : 1874
A handsome library set of Thackeray's works. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 118962
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Works.London : 1869
A handsomely bound set of Thackeray's works. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138377
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ELIOT, George. The Works.Edinburgh and London : c.1890
Standard edition. An attractive set of Eliot's works. Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 134293
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Works.Edinburgh & London : 1925
A handsomely bound set of Conrad's collected works. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 139269
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Works.London : 1869
A handsome library set of Thackeray's works. Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 140487
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Works.London : 1888-91
A particularly handsome set of Tennyson's works. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 135222
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Works.London : 1869
A handsomely bound set of Thackeray's works. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 136130
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Works.London : 1869
A handsomely bound set of Thackeray's works. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 133911
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WORDSWORTH, William; Thomas Hutchinson (ed.) The Poetical Works.London : 1908
A beautifully bound copy of the Oxford Edition of Wordsworth's poems with charming floral details. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145357
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RABELAIS, François. The Complete Works.London & New York : 1927
First edition thus, illustrated by Papé, one of 4,300 numbered sets, this is "unnumbered for Review". Frank Cheyne Papé (1878-1972) was an English artist and illustrator who had studied at The Slade School of Fine Art. He was married to Alice Stringer, also an illustrator and fellow Slade student.
Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 139909
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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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KELMSCOTT PRESS: CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works.London : 1974
Limited edition, one of 515 copies. A superb copy of the Basilisk Press facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer, the most ambitious and magnificent book of the Kelmscott Press. Burne-Jones called the book "a pocket cathedral it is so full of design", and "the finest book ever printed; if W.M. had done nothing else it would be enough." "The Kelmscott Chaucer... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 109804
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WILDE, Oscar. The Works.London : c.1911
The Magdalen edition. One of 480 numbered sets of which this is number 23. Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 138136
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DAHL, Roald. The Commemorative Limited Edition of the Works.London : 1991
The Commemorative Edition, limited to 500 sets of which this is number 323. This edition was published to celebrate Dahl's 75th birthday on 13th September 1991. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 143271
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GREAT EXHIBITION. Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851.London : 1852
Presentation edition, with a copy presented to every exhibitor at the Great Exhibition of 1851; trade editions were also produced. The book is a key contemporary document for the Exhibition, giving the jury awards and details of the thirty categories of exhibit, and was selected in Printing and the Mind of Man as the representative book for the Exhibition.... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 131571
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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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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Bombay Edition of the Works.London : 1913-38
The Bombay Edition, one of only 500 possible complete sets signed by the author on the half-title. The Bombay edition was initially published in 20 volumes and limited to 1,000 copies. Kipling continued to write and the edition eventually grew to 31 volumes, but the last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies only. Because later volumes were issued separately... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 119612
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Bombay Edition of the Works.London : 1913-38
The Bombay Edition, one of only 500 possible complete sets signed by the author on the half-title. The Bombay edition was initially published in 20 volumes and limited to 1,000 copies. Kipling continued to write and the edition eventually grew to 31 volumes, but the last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies only. Because later volumes were issued separately... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 131733
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BLAKE, William - CHRISTIE'S. The Famous Collection of Works by William Blake, the property of the late Graham Robertson, on Friday, July 22, 1949.London : 1949
Two copies, one in wrappers and one in boards, of the sales catalogue for perhaps the greatest sale of William Blake material since the Linnell sale of 1918. These copies come from the library (the wrappers copy signed by him on the front wrapper, the boards copy unmarked but from the same provenance) of Patrick Macleod, who was Secretary of the William... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 105686
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BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works.San Francisco : 1886
First edition, the complete set of what is still considered by historians to be the most important single source of early Western American history. "Colossal co-operative undertaking; nothing approaching it has ever been attempted in this country" (Howes). Although the first title-page is dated 1886, the set was published 1883-90. Vols. 11 and 33 were... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 68597
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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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HATTON, Thomas, & Arthur H. Cleaver. A Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens.London : 1933
First edition, signed limited large-paper issue, number 35 of 250 copies signed by both Hatton and Cleaver. An essential reference work for Dickens's publications in parts. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 138145
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1919-20
The Mellstock edition, one of 500 sets signed by the author on the limitation page of volume I. The Mellstock is one of the most attractive collected editions of Hardy, printed in a clear and legible type, this set in an attractive binding by the noted Atelier Bindery for Charles Scribner's Sons.
At Hardy's suggestion the edition was... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 105784
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FLINT, William Russell - GARDNER, Keith S. Sir William Russell Flint RA PWRS 1880-1969: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Unsigned Limited Edition Works of Sir William Russell Flint together with a Review of Fine Books and Other Collectable Ephemera.Bristol : 1994
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author opposite the title page "To John Youé, with many thanks, Keith S Gardner". This copy unnumbered and in a variant binding. Limited to an edition of 1525 copies of which numbers 1-250 are bound in full blue leather, 251-500 half bound in blue leather with blue buckram boards, 501-1500 bound in dark... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 139732
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PARKER, Gilbert. The Works.New York : 1913-23
Imperial Edition, number 43 of 256 copies printed on japon and with a signed portrait of the author in vol. I. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 131158
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WELLS, H. G. The Works.New York : 1924
The Atlantic Edition, deluxe issue bound in half morocco, number 618 of 1,050 sets signed by the author in volume I. "The text throughout is read and revised by the author, who has written a special preface to each volume as well as a general introduction to the set" (Wells, p. 61). Scribners offered the set in regular cloth bindings but also as here... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 121630
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts.New York : 1914
First edition, first printing. "As in other work by Veblen, an extensive anthropological-historical background provides the underpinning for his argument. The theme was not a new one for him, but he developed it more fully than in earlier works. Humans, he declared, have a basic instinct to create things of usefulness to themselves and others. That... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 147734
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MARLOWE, Christopher. The Works and Life.London : 1930-33
First edition, first impression, of this important collected edition, for some time the standard version of Marlowe's plays; scarce complete, and especially so in the dust jackets.
Provenance: neat ownership inscriptions to front pastedowns of Norman C. Stevenson (dated 1955), alongside his discreet book label (incorporating Picasso's portrait... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 135886
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WORDSWORTH, William. The Poetical Works.London : 1827, 1835
Second authorized edition, inscribed by the poet on the first page of The Excursion: "Wm Wordsworth 19th Octr 1842 Levens", for Mary Howard, with her ownership signature to each front board and bookplate to each front pastedown.
Mary Howard (1785-1877) lived at Levens Hall in Wordsworth's beloved Lake District, with her husband Fulke Greville... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 145801
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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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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Bombay Edition of the Works.London : 1913-38
The Bombay Edition, one of only 500 possible complete sets signed by the author on the half-title of Volume I. The Bombay edition was initially published in 20 volumes and limited to 1,000 copies. Kipling continued to write and the edition eventually grew to 31 volumes, but the last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies only. Because later volumes were... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 127234
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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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KELMSCOTT PRESS: CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted.London : 2002
Limited Folio Society facsimile edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer, number 307 of 1,010 copies.
The most ambitious and magnificent book of the Press, "The Kelmscott Chaucer is not only the most important of the Kelmscott Press's productions; it is also one of the great books of the world. Its splendour can hardly be matched among the books of the... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 145397
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MILTON, John. The Poetical Works.London : 1809
Second Todd edition, here "with considerable additions", following the first of 1801, the major revision being to the "thorough biographical study of Milton" (ODNB) that appears in volume I. Todd's edition was the standard text for fifty years. A handsomely bound set. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 137760
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WORDSWORTH, William. The Poetical Works.Edinburgh : [1890s]
An attractive copy of Wordsworth's poetry in the publisher's deluxe binding. It was published as part of Gall & Inglis's Landscape Edition of the Poets series with decorative landscape engravings framing each page of text. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 146065
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ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. The Collected Works.London : 1886
First edition, large paper issue, one of 25 copies only on handmade paper and bound in four parts. With a pencilled note on the front free endpaper dated March 1887 stating this to have been the first set delivered to the publishers and given by one of them - Albert Ellis - to the writer of the note. It was published simultaneously with the trade edition.... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 118716
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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 Works.London, : 1899
The Larger Temple Shakespeare. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 138382
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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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MELVILLE, Herman. The Works.London : 1922-24
The standard edition, limited to 750 copies. The Standard Edition was published episodically, and includes, among other pieces, the first edition of the novella Billy Budd, which was discovered in manuscript among Melville's papers that year. Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 71774
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works.London : 1919-20
The Mellstock edition, one of 500 sets signed by the author on the limitation page of volume I. The Mellstock is one of the most attractive collected editions of Hardy, printed in a clear and legible type, this set finely bound by Morrell.
At Hardy's suggestion the edition was named after his fictional "Mellstock", a combination of the... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 110543
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Works.New York : 1924
The Canterbury edition. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 126125
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WELLS, H. G. The Works.New York : 1924-7
A handsome set of the Atlantic Edition. Signed limited edition, deluxe issue, number 711 of 1,050 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf of Volume I and released for distribution in America, of which 50 were reserved for presentation.
A further 620 sets were released by T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd, in Great Britain and Ireland, 20 of which... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 143381
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works.Edinburgh & London : 1901-04
The Edinburgh Folio, limited edition of 1,000 copies, with eight volumes additionally signed by the publisher, though uncalled for in the limitation. Well-margined and finely printed in large type, the publication aims "to present our Shakespeare in stately yet convenient form" (advertisement). Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 146105
