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The Gresham Publishing Company. London. 1901, 1901. FIRST EDITION. Four large 8vo volumes. (9.2 x 7.1 inches). Illustrated throughout with portraits and views. A very good set in the beautiful decorative Art Nouveau style red cloth bindings designed by Talwin Morris. Front boards with gilt, dark green and light green..... More
Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge. London. 1859, 1859. Four volumes bound in two. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated throughout with fine engravings, some full page. Contemporary fine bindings of half dark reen calf. Spines with raised bands with decorative gilt tooling. Gilt ruling, decoration and lettering to compartments. Red title..... More
John Murray. London. + For the Booksellers. London. 1827 and 1826, 1826. EIGHT VOLUMES. 8vo. (6.5 x 4.2 inches). Six volumes of The Works, dated 1827, and two volumes of Don Juan, dated 1826. All uniformly bound in attractive fine early leather bindings of full red straight grained morocco. Spines..... More
Thornton Butterworth Limited. Macmillan & Co, Ltd. London. 1923-31, 1923. EARLY REPRINT SET. 6 volumes, complete. Large 8vo (9.3 x 6.3 inches). Contains several maps, plans and facsimiles of letters and documents, many folding. Some foxing to the fore-edge and first and last few leaves of the first volume otherwise..... More
Cassell and Company Ltd. London. 1956-58, 1956. FIRST EDITIONS. Four Volumes. Complete. 8vo. (9.8 x 6.4 inches). Finely bound in recent full red morocco. Spines with raised bands, the compartments ruled lettered and decorated with Rampant lion device, all in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. All edges gilt..... More
Cassell & Co. ltd. London. 1948-54, 1948. FIRST EDITION. First impression. Six volumes. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with maps and plans, many folding. A bright, clean set, which has been finely bound in recent full dark blue morocco leather. The spines with raised bands, twin red labels, gilt. Spine compartments ruled..... More
Cassell & Co. ltd. London. 1948-54, 1948. SIX VOLUMES. FIRST EDITIONS, 1st impressions. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated throughout with maps and plans, many folding. A near fine, bright set of books with some neat annotation to a handful of pages in volume one. Publishers black cloth with gilt..... More
Cassell and Company. London. 1942-46, 1942. FIRST EDITIONS of volumes two through to seven. First volume is the tenth edition, published 1943. 7 VOLUMES. Complete set of the war speeches. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CHURCHILL IN VOLUME ONE (Into Battle), with a V for Victory. ----’Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill..... More
Cassell and Company. London. 1941-46, 1941. FIRST EDITIONS. 7 Volumes. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.6 inches). A complete set of first editions and 1st impressions of Churchill's war speeches. A few pages with light foxing but overall a clean and fine set which has been finely bound in recent full dark..... More
Thornton Butterworth Limited. London. 1923-31, 1923. FIRST EDITION SET. 6 large 8vo volumes. (9.2 x 6.3 inches). Contains maps, plans and facsimiles of letters and documents. Fine leather bound set in recent full dark blue morocco leather. Spines with raised bands, red title labels, and gilt ruling, lettering and decorations..... More
Nattali and Bond. London. No Date.,Circa 1850, 1850. THREE VOLUMES. Tall 8vo (10.2 x 6.6 inches). Text and plates taken from the Ninth edition. Complete set of this famous trilogy, with 80 fine hand-coloured, full page, aquatint plates, the colouring still strong and bright, by Thomas Rowlandson. Some minor spots..... More
Chapman & Hall. London. 1886 - 87, 1886. NEW EDITIONS. The first three volumes are the first printing of these reprints using the original stereotype plates from the original First editions which were published between 1843 and 1848. The last two volumes are reprints from one year later, dated 1887.----..... More
Chapman & Hall, Limited, London and Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press American Branch. New York. - No date. circa 1910, 1910. COMPLETE SET OF WORKS. 20 volumes. 8vo (6.7 x 4.4 inches). Illustrated throughout with line engravings by various artists. A very good bright set in the publishers delux full..... More
Henry Colburn & Co. London. 1857, 1857. NEW EDITION. Four volumes. 8vo. (7.6 x 5 inches). Portrait frontispieces in volumes one and two. A fine clean set in contemporary leather bindings of half plum morocco. Spines with raised bands, each with diagonal gilt bands. Compartments double ruled and lettered in..... More
Basil Blackwell/The Shakespeare Head Press. Oxford. 1926, 1926. LIMITED EDITION. TEN VOLUMES. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.4 inches). One of 1030 sets printed, of which 1000 are for sale. Fine clean books which have been finely bound in recent half red morocco leather, spines with raised bands, the compartments lettered and..... More
Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1872 - 74, 1872. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Previous owner armorial bookplate (Isaac Holden, politician and inventor of a wool-combing machine, who received a Baronetcy in 1893) and also ink name and address stamped to the front blank free endpapers..... More
William Heinemann and The Bodley Head. London. 1969 - 1982, 1969. 23 Volumes - Complete. FIRST EDITIONS and First printings of all volumes in this collected edition. --- Volume 1, Brighton Rock, is inscribed and signed by Graham Greene on the front free endpaper; - "For Doctor A. D. Thomson..... More
Vista Books. London. 1962/3, 1962. THREE VOLUMES. Large 8vo. (8.1 x 6.1 inches). Book of Joy is a First Collected edition, the other two are early reprints. Each volume is illustrated throughout with 64 illustrations, many in full colour. A fine, clean set which have been finely bound, by Zaehnsdorf..... More
C. Hitch, L. Hawes, J. Payne, R. Baldwin & R and J. Dodsley. London. 1756, 1756. FOUR VOLS. 8vo. (6.6 x 4.2 inches). Some pages with spotting but most are clean and bright. Some offsetting to the blank endpapers and first and last text pages. Contemporary full speckled calf, raised..... More
Little, Brown and Company. Boston. 1897, 1897. FIVE VOLUMES. Complete. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). Illustrated throughout with ten full page mono plates, each with a printed tissue guard, by G. Jeanniot. Attractive early leather bindings of half brown morocco. Spines with raised bands, each with gilt decorative line. Compartments..... More
Little, Brown and Company. Boston. 1899, 1899. FIVE VOLUMES. Complete. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). Illustrated throughout with ten full page mono plates, each with a printed tissue guard, by G. Jeanniot. Attractive early leather bindings of half red morocco by Bradstreet's. Spines with raised bands, each with gilt ruled..... More
J. Nichols & Son; F & C. Rivington, &c. London. 1810, 1810. TWELVE VOLUMES. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.4 inches). New edition. Portrait frontis after Sir Joshua Reynolds, engraved by James Fittler. Some minor foxing to some pf the pages but generally a very good clean set. Contemporary full tree calf..... More
William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1961, 1961. THREE VOLUMES. Reprint of the 1951 Edition. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.7 inches). Fine and clean set in attractive leather bindings by Bayntun of Bath. Contemporary full blue polished calf. Spines with five raised bands, each with gilt decorative roll. The compartments are ruled, lettered..... More
William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1951, 1951. FIRST EDITION. 3 VOLUMES. 8vo. (8 x 5.6 inches). A little foxing to the first couple of pages of volume three otherwise a near fine set in recent leather bindings of full red morocco, spines with five raised bands, the compartments ruled, lettered and..... More
William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1961, 1961. THREE VOLUMES. Reprint of the 1951 Edition. 8vo. (8 x 5.4 inches). Fine and clean set in the rare Publishers delux leather bindings of full red Morocco. Spines with blind ruled bands and lettered in gilt. Gilt stamped Author's symbol device to the front..... More