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188924293J W Arrowsmith Bristol 1889. 8vo. First Edition Second Issue with very numerous illustrations throughout; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top hand-made endpapers ribbon marker in custom-made-slip-case an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 3pp publisher's advertisement at end; original endpapers not preserved. Carter & Sadleir v6; Muir 'Points' p.133; Sterling 498. J W Arrowsmith, Bristol, hardcover
1896001688Boston: Lee and Shepard 1896 Book. Illus. by Portrait Front. Very Good Plus. Original Cloth. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on boards. No DJ. "With Practical Suggestions upon the Origin and Prevention of Sickness Suffering and Premature Death; The Result of Fifty-six Years of Professional Experience and Observation." - subtitle. His thoughts on everything from government to the benefits of laughing and crying. No related information found and no other copes seen. Minor acid-toning to endpapers. 272 pp. Lee and Shepard hardcover
1895280329Verlag von Ferdinand Schöningh Paderborn 1895. Hardcover Pappe mit Kunstlederrücken und -ecken ohne Schutzumschlag 2. Auflage Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen mit einer Namenseintragung und Textanstreichungen nur bis S. VI. Rücken Ecken Kanten sehr gut. Schnittkante staubig. Nachgebunden. Verlag von Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn, hardcover
182641053H. L. Broenneri. 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Rebound in quarter black cloth binding with brown boards. Attractive copy. Institution stamp to front inner cover and titlepage. No other markings. Scholar's name to ffep D. Gerber. Some foxing.; Text in Greek; editorial matter in Latin. Cxliv 150 pp; 150 pages . H. L. Broenneri hardcover
188020792Garnier Freres Paris c.1880. 8vo. neat signature on front preliminary fore-edges lightly dust-soiled; handsomely bound in contemporary marbled boards brown morocco back with five raised bands second compartment lettered in gilt all compartments ruled in blind marbled endpapers a most attractive copy. Contains seven plays ten poetic pieces a short story and extracts from four books of voyages: Lapland Flanders/Holland Denmark Sweden. Nice copy in wholly unrestored contemporary binding. Very scarce especially in this condition. Garnier Freres, Paris, hardcover
1883000179Paris France: Laplace Sanchez et Cie. 1883. Half-Leather. Fine. Allouard Henri. Beautifully bound in red calf decorative gold stamping on the spine; marbled end papers etc. Interior is clean and tight with little foxing. 12mo lii 368 pages. Chosen plays: Esope a la Ville Esope a la cour Le Mercure galant Phaeton Les Mots a la Mode La Satire des Satires and Le Jaloux prisonnier. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Laplace, Sanchez et Cie. hardcover
1900023701New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1900. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Type: Hardback 1900 Charles Scribner Edition in Good Condition. Volume XII of The Works of Eugene Field. Eugene Field 1850-1895 was a poet a newspaperman and a prankster who was reportedly expelled from three colleges for his practical jokes. He wrote about the idiocies of his times Chicago philistines and also sentimental poetry "by the foot" and childrens' verse such as "Wynken Blinken and Nod" and "Little By Blue". In original forest green cloth with bright gilt titles and decoration on front and spine. Very clean with slight wear to some extremities faint wrinkling to cloth at upper corner one whitish dot on front. Tight solid and square binding. Top edge gilt. Rough cut on fore-edge and lower edge. Former owner bookplate on pastedown. Tissue guarded frontis red letters on tissue. Damp stain on upper corner of endpapers and some pages otherwise pages quite clean toned. xii 274 pages. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. 1900 Charles Scribner's Sons New York New York USA Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
189612744Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1896. Hardcover. 14 volumes. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt. Various paginations most ca. 450pp each. Frontispieces. Top edges gilt. Most very good. Minor occasional edgewear; the pastedown of each volume bears a bookplate presenting the set to Chicago's noted Union League Club; volume 11 is mismatched being from Mifflin's "Riverside Edition" which is about ½" shorter small 8vo and of a different hue of green. Attractive tight "Standard Library Edition. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
182624969Longman Rees Orme Brown & Green 1826. 8vo. Seventh Edition small contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso; strongly bound in contemporary calf sides with gilt frame border back with five flat bands tooled in gilt second compartment with red leather label lettered in gilt all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt red sprinkled edges marbled endpapers small loss at headband boards mildly age-stained else a very good bright clean copy. Longman Rees Orme Brown & Green, hardcover
183942745William Blackwood Edinburgh and Thomas Cadell London 1839. 7 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus with engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved and printed titles; elegantly bound in contemporary full calf sides with gilt frame border backs with flat bands second and fourth compartments with leather labels lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt gilt dentelles brown endpapers ribbon markers one volume wanting volume label else a most attractive set in wholly unrestored period binding. William Blackwood, Edinburgh, and Thomas Cadell, London, hardcover
1878018988London: Blackie & Son 1878. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Centenary Edition. 4to. pp. vol. I: viii 711; vol. II: lxxi 468; portrait frontispiece with tissue guard engraved title & 19 plates to vol. I; frontispiece with tissue guard engraved title and 23 plates to vol. II. Letterpress title pages to both volumes. Handsomely bound in half green calf with raised bands and contrasting red title labels to the spines; all edges marked red and blue. Binding very good with a little rubbing only. Contents very good and tight prelims and last few pages foxed slight spotting to page edges otherwise clean and sound no inscriptions. A very good set. Blackie & Son Hardcover
1877019264Lodon: George Bell & Sons 1877. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Standard Works. 12mo 13 x 19cm. in the Bohn's Standard Library series. Some frontispiece plates and with publisher's adverts at front and rear. Original uniform cloth binding with gilt lettering and blind stamped decoration good with some general wear and rubbing a few boards with some uneven fading. Contents clean and tight bookplates tipped onto front free end papers paper to hinges on a few volumes worn but all vols remains strongly bound paper to advert pages toned otherwise unmarked no inscriptions. A good to very good part set. George Bell & Sons Hardcover
18257819Talboys & Wheeler and W. Pickering Oxford 1825. 11 vols. 8vo. with engraved armorial vignette on titles; attractively and strongly bound in contemporary full tan calf sides with gilt frame border backs with five raised bands second and third compartments with red and black leather labels lettered in gilt all other compartments richly ruled and tooled in gilt doublures tooled in blind all edges marbled one volume neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down six labels three red and three black missing but residual lettering wholly legible in blind backstrips rather scuffed and age-worn particularly on sixth volume joints mildly rubbed but all bindings entirely sound else a handsome internally crisp and spotless extended set in elaborate period binding. This set includes all half-titles but was bound without the engraved portrait of Johnson often present in first or third volumes. Published in the series 'Oxford English Classics' this edition was supervised by Francis Pearson Walesby 1798-1858 Fellow of Lincoln College and later Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. The set was originally to comprise nine volumes see titles; the tenth and eleventh volumes containing the 'Debates' were issued as supplements. Volume one contains Murphy's 'Essay' first published separately in 1792. In volume nine 'Journey' retains the dates of August 13 'Lough Ness' and September 20 'Skye' but corrects the error about the Macleods. Courtney & Nichol Smith pp.166-7; CBEL II p.614 Talboys & Wheeler, and W. Pickering, Oxford, hardcover
18249250London: J. Evans and Co.; also R. Griffin and Co. Glasgow; and J. Cumming. Fair. 1824. Hardcover. 12 vols.; 8vo; portrait frontis in volume 1; full calf with marbled edges & endpapers; spines lettered in gilt; raised bands; red & green leather spine labels. Occasional blemishes darkening & soil to leather; loss of two top panels on backstrips Vol. one 1" Vol. 8 1.25"; spines & joints rubbed with top joints on most volumes starting or split up to 2 inches yet fairly firm; rubbing to corner tips through to boards on most volumes; ink blotch front cover volume eleven. Offset tanning to title page volume one from frontis; light to moderate foxing of blank endpapers but titles and text pages quite clean. . J. Evans and Co.; also R. Griffin and Co. Glasgow; and J. Cumming hardcover
1872027375London: Chapman & Hall 1872. Book. Very Good. Half Leather. New Edition. 8vo. A handsome set of most of Lever's major works bound by the famous binder - Bayntun Bath England. Most published by Chapman & Hall 1872 - 1873; New edition otherwise pub. Routledge as indicated. Titles as follows:- Charles O'Malley; Tom Burke; The O'Donoghue; The Knight of Gwynne; Con Cregan; Roland Cashel; The Daltons; The Dodd Family Abroad; The Martins; Davenport Dunn; One of Them; Barrington; Luttrell of Arran; Lord Kilgobbin; The Bramleighs of Bishop's Follys; Jack Hinton; and Arthur O'Leary pub. George Routledge. Illustrated throughout with frontispieces and engraved plates by Phiz Browne et al; many with separate engraved and letterpress title pages. Half bound in green morocco uniformly faded to tan with green cloth boards five raised bands to the spines gilt lettering; top edges gilt marbled end papers. Bindings vey good joints strong slight general wear several lightly stained and marked. Contents generaly clean and tight a little browning/marking to the first and last few pages of some volumes a few pages with very small water stains to edges otherwise clean a few titles missing tissue guards to frontispiece plates; several with light silverfish damage to the edges of the endpapers and first and last few pages. Specific faults as follows: Tom Burke with some silverfish damage to the fore-edge of the frontispiece plate but not affecting image; Lord Kilgobbin missing rear free end paper; Dodd Family small strip missing from lower edge of half-title page not nearly affecting text. A very good set that looks particularly well on the shelf. Please note: a heavy set and a small postal surcharge may apply. Chapman & Hall Hardcover
187327458Virtue 1873-76. 2 vols. large folio First Edition thus text in double column with engraved frontispieces engraved and printed titles and 37 fine engraved plates all original tissue guards present frontispieces mildly browned; strongly bound in publisher's black half morocco coarse-grain cloth sides ruled in gilt backs with five raised bands tooled in gilt second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments ruled in gilt and blind marbled edges marbled endpapers hinges open but binding entirely sound a remarkably bright clean firm crisp copy in wholly unrestored publisher's binding. The set comprises Vol. I: Comedies Histories; Vol. II: Histories Tragedies Poems Plays ascribed to Shakespeare; Brief Notice of Opinion on the Writings. This splendid edition of the Bard is illustrated and engraved by some of the leading artists of the period including Leslie Huskisson Maclise Pettie Orchardson and others. The engravings are by Artlett Sharpe Lizars Sherrett Armytage and several more. Of particular interest is the section on attributed pieces - comprising new fewer than thirteen dramas the full texts of which are not easily available elsehwere: Locine; Sir John Oldcastle Part I; Thomas Lord Cromwell; The London Prodigal; The Puritain; A Yorkshire Tragedy; Arden of Feversham sic; King Edward III; George-A-Greene; Fair Em; Mucedorus; The Birth of Merlin; The Merry Devil of Edmonton. A BRIGHT COPY OF AN INPRESSIVE AND IMPORTANT EDITION. Virtue, hardcover
187830276George Bell 1878. 8vo. Tenth Edition with frontispiece and numerous full-page engraved illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in green full pebble-grain morocco sides with double frame border enclosing elaborate decorative frame all in gilt back with five raised bands tooled in gilt second compartment ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments richly rooled in gilt gilt edges bevelled boards gilt doublures marbled endpapers backstrip lightly chafed at headband else a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. George Bell, hardcover
189339246Lawrence & Bullen 1893. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper with portrait frontispiece original tissue guard present titles in red and black; ribbed plum cloth gilt backs uncut a very good bright crisp clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES THIS COPY NO. 479. Ward's extensive Introduction is followed by: The Relapse Aesop The Provok'd Wife The False Friend The Country House The Confederacy The Mistake A Journey to London and A Short Vindication of The Relapse and The Provok'd Wife. This edition omits 'The Pilgrim'. NCBEL II 749. Lawrence & Bullen, hardcover
189013574J W Jarvis & Son 1890. 2 vols. 8vo. with sepia-toned frontispieces titles in red and black and 14 sepia-toned plates; original red cloth gilt backs uncut yellow endpapers a very good bright clean set. J W Jarvis & Son, hardcover
1900SB15579Boston: L.C. Page and Company 1900. Shaken binding aged textblock else clean and tight; Top edge gilt; Embossed cloth with moderate silverfish depredation at the front and back board edges surface wear bumping to corners as well as to the head and foot of spine. 337p. Embossed Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. L.C. Page and Company Hardcover
188032771Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1880. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with black leaf pattern stamping. 419pp. Very good. Slight bit of mild edgewear; front inner hinge delicate but archivally strengthened. First edition probable first printing. BAL 9589. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
187733382Chicago: Jansen McClurg & Co 1877. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Orange cloth with black and gilt decorative and pictorial stamping. xiii 502pp. Frontispiece illustrations. Very good. Spine slightly sunned and a bit cocked with minor fraying at head and tail of spine; inner front hinge cracked but expertly archivally strengthened. Fairly tight and decent first edition of this Illinois fiction whose dedication page thanks "General U.S. Grant who was Colonel of the 21st Illinois Regiment while I was its chaplain." Delightful full-page engravings by Frank Beard. Crane was a Springfield preacher and this colorful novel depicts the rugged life of the Methodist preachers who traveled from village to village settlement to settlement preaching the gospel -- much as young Springfield attorney Lincoln traveled the judicial circuit trying cases in tiny rural villages. Interesting provenance the front pastedown bearing the plain red-printed bookplate "From the Library of / Ed Grabhorn / at the Grabhorn Press. Jansen, McClurg & Co hardcover
18162978Printed for John Sharpe Piccadilly by C. Whittingham Chiswick 1816. 16mo. with engraved and printed titles and 5 engraved plates some minor spotting; strongly bound in cloth boards morocco back gilt uncut original free endpapers preserved. A most attractive copy. Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, by C. Whittingham, Chiswick, hardcover
18925952Longmans Green 1892. 8vo. First Edition with photographic portrait frontispiece original tissue guard present some very light foxing mainly marginal; original pale green tweed cloth backstrip with printed paper label chipped without loss of lettering black endpapers uncut a remarkably bright crisp clean copy. With the fine nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of R.Milne-Redhead and trade ticket of Beach of Salisbury on front paste-down. With 24pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Miller & Matthews B27.1 Longmans Green, hardcover
185831664Richard Bentley 1858. 3 vols. 8vo. First Edition some mild spotting as usual; tastefully bound in contemporary blue half roan marbled boards ruled in gilt backs with five raised bands tooled in gilt second and third compartments ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments framed in gilt gilt tops marbled endpapers joints very lightly rubbed a most attractive copy. MAURICE BARING'S COPY WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE ON BLANK PRELIMINARY OF FIRST VOLUME AND BOOKPLATE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS OF ALL THREE VOLUMES. The set also carries the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Andrew Noble of Ardmore and Ardardan on front paste-downs. The Trollope Society records that the author's sixth novel was written 'mainly in railway carriages since his work for the Post Office entailed a good deal of travelling'. The story is drawn from his memories of his work as a clerk at the GPO in St Martin-le-Grand and Richard Mullen has called it the most autobiographical of Trollope's novels. The novel was not reprinted in its original three-volume form. A UNIQUE AND ATTRACTIVE COPY OF A SCARCE WORK. NCBEL III 882; Sadleir 6; Wolff 6796. Richard Bentley, hardcover
