Whyte melville

1898 · 955T69 — London: W. Thacker & Co. 1898-1902. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". E. Caldwell; H. M. Brock. Nine smart volumes of the twenty-four-volume limited edition set of the works of Scottish novelist George Whyte-Melville. Nine volumes of a twenty-four volume set. Limited to one thousand and fifty copies printed by Morrison and Gibb Limited Edinburgh. Written by George John Whyte-Melville a Scottish novelist much concerned with field sports and a poet who served as an officer of the Turkish irregular cavalry in the Crimean War. Edited by Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell a Scottish novelist essayist artist antiquarian horticulturalist prominent salmon angler author of books on angling and Conservative politician. Illustrated by Edmund Caldwell a British painter and Henry Matthew Brock a British illustrator and landscape painter. This set contains: Volume III - Uncle John. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and thirteen black-and-white plates. Volume VIII - Songs and Verses. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and twelve black-and-white plates. Volume IX - Black But Comley. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and nine black-and-white plates. Volume XIV - Digby Grand: An Autobiography. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eight black-and-white plates. Volume XVI - Sister Louise & Rosine. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and nine black-and-white plates. Volume XVII - Kate Coventry. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and nine black-and-white plates. Volume XVIII - Cerise. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and nine black-and-white plates. Volume XXI - General Bounce. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eight black-and-white plates. Volume XXIV - The Interpreter: A Tale of the War. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eight black-and-white plates. Collated complete. Previously held in the libraries of Douglas Kerr a British writer and academic who is best known for his work on Arthur Conan Doyle and George Orwell; and Brigadier Arthur Christopher Lancelot Stanley-Clarke an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. In the original full cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the cloth. Front hinge starting but firm to volume XVI with the rear hinge just starting but firm to volume XVIII. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting predominantly to the first and last few pages. Minor age toning to the endpapers. With the previous owners' bookplates to the front pastedowns or endpapers. Very Good W. Thacker & Co. hardcover