Folding leather desk blotter, 19th century
15 1/2 x 10 inches. Large gilt panels from a binding mounted on covers, silk linings.
15 1/2 x 10 inches. Large gilt panels from a binding mounted on covers, silk linings.
Oxford: The University Press for the Author, 1809. First edition. 8vo (238 x 140mm). xxix, 448 pages. 9 engraved plates, some folding. Brown morocco, arms of Rev. Theodore Williams on sides, gilt-lettered on spine, turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt, by Clarke. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; with an Appendix.....
A Compendious Geographical and Historical Grammar… second edition, London: for W. Peacock and Sons, 1802. [With:] Capper, B. P. A Compendious Geographical Dictionary… fourth edition, London: Peacocks and Bampton, 1813. Both volumes with hand-colored engraved maps, some folding. [With:] Stephen Jones. A New Biographical Dictionary… Seventh edition. London: Longman, Hurst.....
London: Printed for W. Cavil, T. Martin, T. French, and J. Wren, 1795. 12mo (138 x 83 mm). Frontispiece in vol. 1, 8 other engraved plates. Contemporart tree calf, smooth spines gilt-ruled, a green morocco letteringpiece with Pope's name, and a circular red morocco piece bearing the volume's number. Provenance.....
London & Edinburgh: Adams and Charles Black, 1892. 3 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, one-leaf ads at end of vol. 3. Green half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt, by Bayntun. First edition. An intellectually superior man born into a socially inferior milieu, based loosely on Gissing's own early life. Coustillas A11.1.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924-1927. 28 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth; glassine; publisher's slipcases with paper labels. Limited edition, number 924 of 1050 sets for America of the Atlantic Edition, signed by Wells in the first volume.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924-1927. 28 volumes, 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spines, top edges gilt, others uncut. Limited edition, number 531 of 520 sets for Great Britain of the Atlantic Edition, signed in volume one by Wells.