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Paris: Chez Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1812. Half calf, 5 1/2 inches tall. A charming little English provincial binding with the binder's ticket of Tomkinson of Uttoxeter (see Charles Ramsden's Book Binders of the United Kingdom, page 164). With gilt bands, label and extra gilt panels on a smooth back. 2 pages of prints. In the original French.

Paris: Rue Sainte-Anne, 1900-1901. Half morocco, 11 1/2 inches tall. In a splendid half orange morocco with appropriate gilt tooling featuring Pan and Cupid and an ornate label. The shoulders are rubbed and there is some staining to the covers but no splitting or loss. 63 consecutive issues from volume no.1, 20th October 1900, to volume no. 63, 28th December 1901. 1060 pages, each one illustrated with up to 6 cartoons. The Illustrators include Picasso (Ruiz); Petitjean; Alber Guillaume; Roubille; Willete; André Rouveyre; Ferdinand Bac; Henri Gerbault and Préselan. There is a single risqué theme to every cartoon! A very nice run of this famous publication in a lovely binding.

London: Cassell, Petter & New York, c.1890. 2 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A lovely Victorian tree calf with gilt raised bands, sparkling twin labels and extra gilt panels. A gilt roll frames the boards and the gilt prize block of Rossall School on the upper boards. With the prize bookplate of Rossall school on the first paste down endpaper. Embellished with colour maps showing St. Paul's missionary journeys.

London: W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, et al., 1784. 10 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A superb later binding by the great Arthur S. Colley in half mottled calf with gilt raised bands, ornate gilt tooling to the panels and twin labels. All edges gilt. Engraved frontispieces to each volume. This is a very fine 18th century edition of Fielding's works, include a Life of Fielding. Included are all Fielding's great novels, 'Tom Jones', 'Shamela', 'Joseph Andrews', 'Amelia', 'Jonathan Wild', as well as his great satirical comedies and poems. In very fine condition.

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858-1870. 12 volume set, 8 3/4 inches tall. A splendid set in Victorian full straight grain calf with gilt raised bands and fine gilt tooling to the panels. Foxing to the preliminaries, then clean. The 12 volume set is divided into two sets of 6 volumes both entitled 'The Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth'. Portrait. A fine Country House set from the Library of Bridehead in Dorset.

London: John Murray, 1869. Full morocco, 8 1/2 inches tall. A splendid heavy Victorian full hard grain morocco with the coronet and initials of Baron Saye et Sele of the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family in the top panel. With gilt raised bands and very fine gilt tooling to the panels, gilt dentelles and all edges. With a gilt blocked crest on both boards and prize bookplate on the paste down endpaper. Foxing to the preliminaries, then clean. Slight rubbing. An impressive copy of this biography of the great Roman statesman and philosopher.

London: G. & W. Whittaker, 1824. Half morocco, 7 1/4 inches tall. A superb half morocco with delicate gilt tooling on a smooth back. All edges gilt. Von Chamisso's fable about a man who sells his shadow to the devil in exchange for limitless wealth, first published in Germany in 1814. That edition was edited by Fouqué leading to the title page attribution to him. With 8 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. With slight rubbing otherwise a delightful clean example of the rare first edition in English.

London: J. Dodsley, 1784. Full calf, 8 1/2 inches tall. A very handsome 18th century speckled calf with gilt bands, twin labels, tiny star centre tools and curious gilt fillets to the boards. With a very nice booksellers/binders ticket. With the bookplate of Ellen James. Some rubbing but overall a fine copy of these mainly fictionalised letters.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1882. 2 volume set, 10 1/2 inches tall. A simple but pleasing full crushed morocco binding for Sotheran by the great firm of Tout with raised bands, gilt lettering, gilt doublures and all edges. The spine has faded to a handsome brown. From the Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. With over 80 extra-illustrations. As a Quaker, Caroline Fox wanted to abolish slavery and improve conditions for people in prison, she met famous politicians, artists, writers and scientists. These included Thomas Carlyle, William Wordsworth, Charles Kingsley and Michael Faraday.

London: Constable and Company, 1905. Full calf, 8 1/4 inches tall. A splendid bright full calf by Bayntun of Bath with gilt raised bands, sparkling twin labels and gilt framed panels. Gilt dentelles and all edges. From the Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. Illustrated with 20 full page plates, including extra-illustrations, some hand-coloured.
An entertaining work in a lovely binding.

London: Millar, 1755. Full morocco, 6 1/2 inches tall. A beautiful later binding by Morrell with gilt raised bands and delicate gilt tooling to the panels and boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. Lacks half title. Exceptionally fine and clean text and binding. First edition. Henry Fielding, one of the earliest and greatest English 18th century writers, traveled to Portugal in 1754 seeking relief from various acute medical conditions but died after a couple of months, this work was published the following year.

Paris: Baudry's Foreign Library, 1831. 2 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A very neat half calf with wide blind tooled raised bands and simple gilt framed panels. The floral embossed cloth is exceptionally crisp and untarnished. Speckled edges. A particularly clean text block. A superb copy of Fielding's greatest work, one of the earliest and most popular English 18th century novels. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one of the "three most perfect plots ever planned", alongside 'Oedipus Tyrannus' and 'The Alchemist'.

Paris: P. Boizard, 1845. Half morocco, 10 1/2 inches tall. A fine and very bright later half morocco with gilt raised bands, floral gilt tooling to the panels and yellow edges. With the binder's ticket of Albert Günther of Vienna, and from the Library of the Auersperg Palais, though the bookplates have been neatly removed. With full page plates and vignettes throughout by '...les Artistes les plus Distingués...', illustrating the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition. Slight sporadic foxing, overall a fine bright set.

Avignon: Girard, 1761. Full calf, 7 1/2 inches tall. Full 18th century mottled calf with gilt raised bands, label and fine floral gilt tooling to the panels. Pink edges. Although the binding is still perfectly solid there is rubbing, creasing, loss to the bottom panel and a defunct worm hole on the upper board. With the rather splendid bookplate of The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire and the neat ink signatures of 2 previous owners on the title page.

Paris: Éditions d'art Édouard Pelletan, 1905. Full morocco, 11 1/2 inches tall. A beautiful work in an exquisite binding by Affolter with gilt raised bands and glorious floral gilt tooling to the panels and boards. Elaborately gilt tooled dentelles and all edges. Sparkling embroidered silk end papers. The leather trimmed, felt lined slip case is splitting, but has preserved the book in pristine condition. The plates in 3 and 5 states. Examplaire 9 of 165 copies.

London, Edinburgh & Boston: Foulis, 1915. Full morocco, 8 inches tall. A very fine binding by Bumpus with gilt raised bands and dense floral gilt tooling to the panels. The boards are framed within triple fillets. Gilt dentelles and all edges. Ink inscription dated 1924 on free endpaper. Decorated with 8 charming full page plates by F. Cayley-Robinson. A lovely copy of a scarce edition.