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. Complete in 38. Bound in full vellum with gilt spine lettering and a gilt armorial device to the front..... 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
Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1903. 12 volumes. 8vo. Publisher's original green/brown buckram boards with paper spine labels. Most pages uncut. Autograph Centenary Edition, with one double-sided manuscript leaf of Emerson's work inlaid and bound into the first volume. Edition of 600 sets, signed by the publisher, this is number 236. Private..... 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
Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co.. 1861. Hardcover. 5 volumes. With the portrait in volume 1. Tall 8vo. Half brown leather over marbled boards. Decorative compartments in gilt, with gilt bands. All edges marbled, with matching marbled endpapers. Light scuffing and wear to some parts of the leather around the..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1902. Hardcover. 13 Volumes. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth with gilt decorated and lettered spines, top edges gilt, ink name to first blank of each volume in the upper right corner and very light wear to the cloth at some of the spine ends. Most of..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1903. 16mo [160 x 100mm]. 12 volumes in full green leather with gilt stamped front covers and gilt stamped design and lettering to the spine. Frontispiece in each volume. The contents clean and unmarked, the volumes tight and square, with red ribbon page..... 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
