Works
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.
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Works
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.
The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers Fish-Ponds Fish and Fishing
London: William Pickering, 1836. 2 volumes, 4to (270 x 180 mm; 105/8 x 71/8 in.). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black, 61 steel engravings in two states, many printed on india paper. Contemporary dark green morocco by Hering, wide borders gilt, fish tool cornerpieces gilt, spines in 6 compartments.....
Born in Exile
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.....
Piquillo Alliaga ou Les Mores sous Philippe III
Bruxelles: Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1846. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 7 volumes, small 8vo. Contemporary English half calf and marbled boards, red roan lettering-pieces, spine gilt in compartments, sprinkled red edges, by Hollings of Covent Garden (with ticket). First edition. One of approximately 350 different literary and theatrical works.....
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Eight Volumes, Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements;l Together with All His Notes
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.....
Poems
London: Edward Moxon, 1845. Two volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of the author by H. Robinson after Sir Thomas Lawrence. Contemporary green hard-grained morocco gilt, covers with dotted-circle roll centering a gilt urn on each side, spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt block.....
Opere di C. Cornelio Tacito; Translated by Bernardo Davanzati. With additions by Gabrielle Grotier, translated by Raffaele Pastori
Milan: Giovanni Silvestri, 1820. Four volumes, 8vo. xxxii, 373, [1 ads]; 362, [1 index]; 327 ; 607 pp. Large letterpress folding table in vol. one detailing the Caesarian pedigree. Contemporary Italian black morocco-backed green boards, the smooth spines richly decorated with a semé of dotted lozenges, orange morocco lettering- and.....
The Pilgrims of the Rhine
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. Large-paper copy of the first edition. Tall 8vo (10 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches). 341 pp. 27 engraved plates. Contemporary red morocco, covers with quadruple-fillet gilt border surrounding a wide gilt-floral-tooled border, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, a richly.....
Le dix-neuvième siècle. Les Moeurs, Les Arts, Les Idées
Paris: Hachette, 1901. First edition. Folio (12 1/4 x 8 1//2 inches). 436 pp. 19 plates, some printed in color, black-and-white illustrations in text. Fine French binding by P. Affolter, three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards, smooth spine richly gilt with floral and other tools, top edges gilt. Slight touches to.....
Essays
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. Small 4to. vii, 323 pages. Original half black morocco, marbled boards, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, red silk page markers.
Eugene Field: A Study in Hereditary Contradictions
New York: Charles Scribner 's Sons, 1901. 2 volumes, octavo. Frontispiece and photographic plates. Contemporary plum morocco gilt, spine with acorn tool centered in 4 compartments, gilt-lettered in the remaining two, marbled boards, top edges gilt (slightly sunned, a few small chips at extremities). FIRST EDITION. An attractively-bound set.
The Life of Samuel Johnson
London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society [by The Riverside Press, Edinburgh), 1924. 3 volumes, octavo. Printed in red and black. Frontispieces and plates. Original gilt-lettered and -decorated blue cloth, original purple silk page-markers preserved (slightest wear at extremities, generally clean and bright). Provenance: Walter Chrysler (morocco booklabel). A FINE.....
Fenwick's Career
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1906. 2 volumes. 8vo. 237 and 230 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Contemporary blue half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Provenance: W. Macdoland MacKay (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Mary Augusta was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.
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