ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Ouvres Complètes, mises dans un nouvel ordre, avec des notes historiques et des éclaircissements par P. R. Auguis  Paris, Chez P. Dupont, 1824. £2500 8vo, 26 vols. Bound by “White Relieur, 24 Pall Mall, 1850” […]

ELIOT, George

ELIOT, George. Works  Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1901. £225 8vo, 10 vols, illustrated on frontispiece with tissue guards. Bound in publishers red cloth, spine with gilt-tooled title, publisher’s name, and gilt stamped shape of […]

STEVENSON, Robert Louis

THE PENTLAND EDITION STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, With Bibliographical Notes by Edmund Gosse London, Cassel; Chatto and Windus; William Heinemann; Longmans Green and Co., 1906-7. £550 8vo, 20 vols, illustrated with many […]

PUNCH

PUNCH, The London Chiarivari (Magazine) London, Published at the Office (Bradbury, Agnew & Co.), 1853-59, 1863-77, 1889-91. £800 Folio, 11 books, each including three volumes, copiously illustrated. Vol. 1: 1853-55: Vols XXV-XXVIII; Vol. 2: 1855-57: Vols XXIX-XXXI; […]

DICKENS, Charles

DICKENS, Charles. The Works of Charles Dickens (The London Edition) London, The Caxton Publishing Company, [19–]. £400 8vo, 28 vols (of 29), illustrated frontispiece (some are reproductions on coloured drawings with scenes of characters from the novels, […]

THE SPORTING MAGAZINE

THE SPORTING MAGAZINE, United with the Sportsman, Sporting Review & New Sporting Magazine  London, Rogerson & Tuxford, 1856. £800 8vo, 14 vols, abundantly illustrated. Two volumes per year (Jan-June; July-Dec): 1856-59 complete; July-Dec 1861 only; 1862-63 complete; […]

SCOTT, Sir Walter

  SCOTT, Walter. Waverley Novels Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1832. £550 8vo, 48 vols. bound in contemporary half calf, marbled paper over boards, red labels to spine with gilt lettering. Each volume with bookplate of John H. Mills […]

PLUTARCH [Nonesuch Press]

PLUTARCH. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes  London, The Nonesuch Press, 1929. £ 600 Folio, 5 vols (No. 1533 of 1550 copies). Decorative portrait illustration for each life by T. L. Poulton printed by the […]

IBSEN, Henrik

IBSEN, Henrik. The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen London, William Heinemann, 1906. £ 300 Set of 11 (of 12) published between 1906-12, in publisher red cloth boards, with gilt title and elaborate decorations to spines, edges untrimmed. […]