London: Printed for J. Rivington and Sons, et al. 1778. Leather. Large Quarto. 5 Volumes. Pp. 6 p.l., xlii, [2], 575; 3 p.l., 658; 6 p.l., 681, [74] index; xx, [2], 529; vii, 604. Titles in red and black with engraved printer's devices, 4 copper-engraved frontises, including a portrait by..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company Publishers, 1898. Hardcover. 12 volumes. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt stamped front boards and spines. Top edges gilt. Previous owner's name in ink to 3 volumes, else clean throughout, the bindings tight and square, with light rubbing or the occasional bump to an..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1898. Hardcover. 12 volumes. 12mo. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt stamped and lettered front boards and gilt decorated spines. Top edges gilt, each with tissue-guarded frontis, a few volumes with lightly bumped corners, the final volume with light tide lines along fore-edge of..... More
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1870. Leather. 5 vols., 8vo. Vols. I-III (1784-1846): pp. xv, 431; vii, 440; vii, 436. Vols. IV-V (1846-1865), by Evelyn Ashley (1876): pp. viii, 380; vii, [i], 341. Bound in full smooth tan calf by Tuckett, with gilt tooling to spine compartments and red..... More
Library of Imperial History In association With Charles Scribner's Sons and The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1973. Hardcover. [1973-1976]. 34 volumes of the Works and 4 volumes of The Collected Essays. All edges gilt; bound in full vellum with gilt spine lettering and a gilt armorial device to the front..... More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. First Canadian edition. First printing. Quarter yellow cloth over orange cloth with lettering in black and design to front board and spine, fresh and bright. Dust jacket not price clipped, with a few little nicks and a couple of very short..... More
New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1864. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. Bound in half dark brown calf over marbled boards. Surface rubbing to marbled boards and very light rubbing to board edges. Decorated spine compartments in gilt, with lined borders with little circles and flowers in the corners, dark brown and..... More
Toronto & Edinburgh: T. & A. Constable, 1913. Full Leather. 4to. 1913-1917. Complete in 22 volumes, but without the Index volume. Authors' Edition, limited to 875 numbered sets, this no. 578. With numerous gravures, plates, portraits, facsimiles and maps (many maps in colour). Publisher's sumptuous full crushed levant morocco, wide..... More
London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1832. Leather. 1832-1833. 18 volumes.small 8vo. Bound in three quarter calf over red and brown marbled boards. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Gilt decorated spine compartments, volume number on a leather circular on-lay, date stamp to spine foot of each, with two leather spine labels in..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1907. Hardcover. Signed. 25 volumes. Complete. Large-Paper edition of the works of George Eliot. Edition limited to 750 copies, this is no. 90. Original half maroon morocco over marbled boards, decorated spine compartments and bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The spines..... More
Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1890. Hardcover. c.1890. 12mo. 24 volumes. Bound in half red leather over red marbled boards. 6 compartments framed with square borders and floral device accented with green leather on-lays. The titles in gilt right on the leather. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents clean..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2001. Hardcover. Eleventh edition. 8vo. 700pp (continuous pagination). Set of two volumes in one slipcase. Red line on slipcase, else fine. Quarter brown cloth, gilt on pictorial boards. Crisp and clean interiors Newspaper article laid in. More
London: John Murray, 1884. Hardcover. 8vo. 12 volumes. Half brown morocco over lighter brown linen boards, with top edges gilt. Spines gilt-stamped with lettering and decorative devices in compartments. Light rubbing to spine ends; no chips or loss, except for a small chip to the spine head of Vol. 9..... More
National Alumni/British Empire Service League, Canadian Legion, 1923. Hardcover. 7 volumes. Bound in different coloured and patterned cloth, stamped in gilt, with glassine dust jackets and slipcases for each, housed in the original wooden shipping crate with sliding lid. Some light spotting to the cloth, glassine wrappers a little foxed..... More
George Routledge & Sons, Limited, London and New York, 1886. Hardcover. 1886-1888. Complete in 13 volumes. 'Library Edition' stamped in gilt to front board of each volume. Publisher's blue cloth. Les Miserables, 5 vols.; Toilers of the Sea, 2 vols.; Notre-Dame, 2 vols.; The Man Who Laughs, 2 vols.; Ninety-Three..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1908. Hardcover. 11 volumes. 1908-1910. Half vellum over marbled boards in shades of pale orange and red, spines gilt-decorated with burgundy leather labels lettered in gilt. The first six volumes have gilt top edges and are slightly taller than the remaining five. Light edge wear to boards;..... More
New York: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1971. Hardcover. 26 Volumes. 1971-76. Reprints of the Scribner's edition. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering. Each volume with a different bookplate of the same previous owner, all internally clean and the bindings tight. A few volumes with short rips in the cloth..... More
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833. Hardcover. 1833-34. 12 volumes. 12mo. Each volume with frontis and engraved title. Each with two bookplates of Charles Cobb Walker, one to front paste-down, second to first blank, with Walker's name in ink above, and a circular embossed stamp of the New England Conservatory of Music..... More
Stratford-On-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1904. Hardcover. 10 volumes. Edition of 1000 sets on Handmade Paper, this being no. 480. Bound in quarter green morocco over green cloth boards, with gilt stamped device to the front board of each and gilt lettering to the spine. Top edges are gilt, other..... More
London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1929. Leather. 12mo. [120 x 180mm]. Thirteen (13) Blue leatherette volumes with gilt facsimile signature of Shaw to the front of each and gilt decorated spines. Top edges gilt. Silk ribbon page marker in each volume. The final printing in 1932 which adds a 13th..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Hardcover. 1995-2017. 9 volumes. 8vo. In red cloth with gilt spine lettering, all in dust jacket. A couple of volume with one lightly bumped corner, but otherwise a rather fresh and clean set. More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1905. Hardcover. 14 volumes. 16mo. In burgundy cloth with front board design stamped in blind, publisher's device in blind to rear board and fully gilt and lettered spines. Top edge gilt, decorative endpapers, printed on fine India paper. Some volumes with heavier foxing to the..... More