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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison.
London: T. Cadell and W.Davies, 1811. 6 volume set. 8 1/2 inches tall. A very handsome late Victorian full straight grain morocco by Sotheran with gilt raised bands and remarkable blind and gilt tooling to the panels and boards. Ornate gilt dentelles and all edges gilt. There is some fading to the spines but the set remains bright and very good looking. Joseph Addison, 1672-1719, is perhaps best remembered for founding the Spectator magazine with Ricard Steele, he was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.
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The Waverley Novels.
London: Nimmo, 1898. 24 volume set, 7 1/2 inches tall. A very bright and good looking classic late Victorian half calf with gilt raised bands, twin labels and ornate gilt tooling to the panels. This the 'Large Type Border Edition' and is illustrated throughout. An unusually fine set directly from a country house.
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The Book of Psalms.
London: George Bell & Sons 1878. 2 volume set, 8 3/4 inches tall. A neat Victorian full calf binding by Hatchards with gilt raised bands, twin labels and delicate gilt tooling to the panels. A gilt prize block is framed on the upper boards by gilt and blind fillets. Prize bookplate. A very fine copy of the revised 4th edition.
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The Works of Charles Dickens.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1895. 17 volume set, 8 inches tall. A classic late Victorian half calf in remarkably sparkling, pristine condition with gilt raised bands, twin labels and elaborate gilt tooling to the panels. Embellished profusely with over 700 illustrations by, amongst others, Phiz and George Cruikshank. This edition is complete in 17 volumes and is most readable and manageable.
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The Story of Two Noble Lives. Being Memorials of Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford.
London: George Allen, 1893. 3 volume set, 7 1/2 inches tall. A neat Edwardian half calf with gilt pallets and top edges. Profusely illustrated throughout. Previous owners ink names on the paste down end papers and half title.
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The Works of Laurence Sterne. (Comprising: Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey & Sermons, Letters, &c.).
London: Sharpe and Son et al., 1819. 4 volume set, 9 inches tall. A beautiful Regency full red morocco by the great firm of White of Pall Mall with gilt raised bands, gilt pallets and simple centre tools. Double gilt fillets frame the boards. Gilt dentelled and all edges. Portraits in volume I and an engraved frontispiece in volume II, as called for. Very slight fading to the spines of volumes III & IV, but overall an exceptionally fine set.
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others.
London: Longman, and Co. et al., 1847. 8 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A classic Victorian half calf with gilt raised bands, twin labels and bold gilt tooling to the panels. There is foxing to, and facing, the engraved portrait in volume I, otherwise clean. A fine edition of the works of one of the greatest English poets of the 18th century with a new life of Pope by William Roscoe.
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Mémoires de J. Casanova.
Paris: Garnier Frères, c.1900. 8 volume set, 9 inches tall. A striking set in half vellum with hand painted love birds and rosebuds framing the volume number. Vignettes throughout. A handsome set, in the original French, of possibly the most reliable and entertaining description of European social life during the 18th century.
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The Poetical Works.
Edinburgh: At the Apollo Press, 1777. 4 volume set, 5 inches tall. A very pretty little set in 18th century tree calf with twin labels and dense gilt tooling on a smooth back. With a neat ink previous owner's name on the first blanks. Engraved portrait and 4 engraved title pages. Excellent condition with no splits or loss. Complete in 4 volumes but printed as part of Bell's 'Poets of Great Britain'. A delightful little set of Young's Poetical works including his "Complaint: or, Night Thoughts", one of the most popular and influential poems of the 18th century.
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The Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, K.G. During his various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, The Low Countries, and France. From 1799 to 1818.
London: John Murray, 1834-1838. 12 volume set, 8 3/4 inches tall. An exceptionally good looking late Victorian full calf with wide blind tooled raised bands, twin labels and extra gilt tooling to the panels. A gilt roll and fillets frame the monogram on the upper boards. Scuffs on the upper board of volume XII, otherwise a clean and very smart set. An extraordinary insight into the Napoleonic campaigns from the dispatches of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington.
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Paris Rome, Jérusalem ou la question religieuse au XIXe siècle.
Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1860. 2 volume set, 9 inches tall. Full calf by the great firm of Leighton, from the library of Alfred Rothschild, but without his bookplate. With gilt raised bands, twin labels and neat centre tools to the panels. Twin gilt fillets and corner tools frame the boards. Pink edges. A fine copy of the first edition of this scarce title. In the original French.
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The Works of George Eliot. The Cabinet edition. (Comprising: Felix Holt; The Mill on the Floss; Scenes of Clerical Life; Adam Bede; Daniel Doronda; Romola; Legend of Jubal ets.; Theophrastus Such; The Spanish Gypsy; Middlemarch; Silas Marner, Etc.; Essays, etc.).
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1878. 24 volume set, 7 inches tall. A delightful half morocco by Bickers with delicate and unusual gilt tooling on a smooth back. All edges gilt. Bookplate. This set is complete, including the 3 volume 'George Eliot's Life as related in her letters and journals' by J. W. Cross. There is a slight stain to several spines, not effecting the text block or shape of the volume at all. A superb set of the works of one of England's greatest 19th century novelists.
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The Works of Shakspere. Imperial Edition.
London: Virtue & Co., 1875. 2 volume set, 15 inches tall. A tall and magnificent full morocco by Flude, Birch & Skelt, and with their ticket, with twin gilt raised bands and splendid gilt and blind tooling to the panels and boards. With fine gilt dentelles and all edges. Bookplate. Complete with all 39 full page engravings and 2 engraved vignettes on the title pages. Some light foxing and offsetting from a few plates, overall an usually clean and neat set of this monumental edition.
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Works of Michael de Montaigne.
New York: Derby and Jackson, 1859. 4 volume set, 7 1/2 inches tall. A very bright Victorian half calf with gilt raised bands, twin labels and extra gilt panels. There is some foxing to, and facing, the engraved portrait in volume one, the rest of the text in all four volumes is perfectly clean. Slight rubbing and scuffing. A very handsome set of the Works, in English, of this great 16th century French philosopher.
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The Life of Napoleon; Memoires of Madame Junot; Memoires of Napoleon; Napoleon Intime.
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature.
London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1885. 2 volume set, 10 inches tall. A very handsome set in late Victorian half calf with gilt raised bands, twin labels , gilt and blind pallets and neat gilt centre tools. With full page plates. A chronological encyclopaedia of English Literature from the 'earliest times to the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Oficio de la Semana Santa. (Texts for the Holy week Masses).
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The History of Europe.
London: C and J Rivington, T. Cadell et al., 1827. 6 volume set, 9 inches tall. A very handsome early Victorian full calf by Wiseman of Cambridge. With blind tooled raised bands and smart gilt framing to the panels. The gilt embossed crest of Queen's College Cambridge within gilt and blind fillets frames the boards. Some rubbing but a solid and firm set. Subtitled 'The History of Modern Europe with an account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; and a View of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris in 1763, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son. A New Edition with a Continuation, Terminating at the Death of Alexander, the Russian Emperor, in 1825.
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A History of British Birds. (Bound uniformly with) A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds.
London: George Bell & Sons 1870-1875. 9 volume set, 10 inches tall. A magnificent Victorian half morocco by Bickers with gilt raised bands and beautiful floral gilt tooling to the panels. All edges gilt. Both second editions, illustrated with 598 splendid lithographic plates, as called for, all hand finished. A couple of scuffs but overall in fine condition, inside and out. Morris was an early champion of conservation, campaigning extensively and ultimately successfully for a nature conservation act, he also founded the Plumage League. A very smart set of these classic works on British Birds.
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The Select Works of Jonathan Swift. (Including: The Tale of a Tub; Battle of the Books; Gulliver's Travels; Directions to Servants; Polite Conversation; Art of Punning; Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, &c.).
London: Hector M'Lean, 1823. 5 volume set, 5 1/2 inches tall. A delightful full Regency straight grain morocco with wide gilt raised bands and exuberant floral gilt tooling to the panels. A blind and gilt tooled lozenge is framed within a wide blind roll and twin gilt fillets. All edges gilt. There is a neat ink former owner's name, 'Sarah Darell Vawdrey' on the first blanks. Embellished with a portrait and engraved full page illustrations throughout. A charming selection of the works of this great Anglo-Irish writer in a fine binding.
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