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Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1820. 12 volume set, 6 1/2 inches tall. A lovely, elegant little set of this early edition with gilt raised bands, and very fine gilt tooling to the panels and boards, very typical of the period. Engraved portrait. With the armorial bookplate John Keily.

London: Cadell and Davies, 1809. 3 volume set, 8 3/4 inches tall. A sparkling mid-Victorian full calf with gilt raised bands, twin labels and extra gilt tooling to the panels. Pink Speckled edges. Foxing to the frontispiece facing the celebrated engraved portrait of Reynolds, otherwise clean.

London: William Baynes: 1824. 6 volume set, 9 inches tall. A splendid set in half morocco with gilt raised bands, fine extra gilt floral tooling to the spine.top edges gilt. Containing over 300 extra plates. Armorial bookplate. Some Foxing. The Remarkable Rev. James Granger, as well as being an early animal rights activist, for which he was twice jailed, pioneered the fashion for extra illustrating books, the practice of which he gave his name viz.to Grangerize.

London: Wilkie and Robinson et al., 1810. 3 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A neat set bound in a later full calf by Zaehnsdorf with gilt raised bands, triple labels and delicate gilt tooling to the panels. The boards are framed within a triple fillet and corner tools. Gilt dentelles and top edges. With the armorial bookplate. With all 44 plates, as called for. Some fading to the spines but still a very good looking set.

London: Bickers, 1906. 4 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A sparkling tree calf with gilt raised bands, beautiful floral gilt tooling to the panels and twin labels. Prize bookplate. A very neat set of these 17th century diaries.

London: Richard Bentley, 1836. 2 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A splendid set of the first English language edition in full morocco with wide gilt raised bands and intricate blind tooling to the panels. Twin gilt fillets and a blind roll frame the boards. Embellished with 16 fine full page portraits. A particularly neat set of this scarce first edition.

London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1900. 2 volume set, 9 inches tall. A stunning half calf by 'C. Cross. Binder to the Queen'. With gilt raised bands, triple labels and delicate gilt tooling to the panels. Gilt top edges. Profusely illustrated with maps, battle plans, and photogravures. A late edition of this classic biography in a fine binding.

London: Routledge, 1857. 4 volume set, 6 1/2 inches tall. A splendid little set in full 'Spanish Calf' with gilt raised bands, fine gilt tooling to the panels and twin labels. 2 neat ink inscriptions dated 1858 and 1904 on the reverse of the free end papers. Slightly rubbed but a very pretty set.

Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1853. 2 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A wonderful early Victorian full straight grain morocco by J. Wright with gilt raised bands and absolutely superb gilt tooling to the panels and boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. A fine set of the poetical works of John Milton the great 17th century poet who in 'Paradise Lost' wrote perhaps the greatest of all English epic poems.

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1902. 13 volume set, 8 inches tall. A very handsome set in half Edwardian calf by Bumpus with wide gilt raised bands, centre tooling and striking twin green labels. Gilt top edges. A neat ink inscription on the first blank. With portrait and illustrations by Thackeray throughout. Now celebrated mostly for 'Vanity Fair' with the adventures in society of Becky Sharp during the period of the Napoleonic Wars. Thackeray was one of the most popular and influential of all English Victorian novelists. A lovely set in fine condition.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1904. 10 volume set, 9 inches tall. A good looking set in Edwardian citron half calf with raised bands, gilt centre tools and top edges. A neat ink inscription on the first blank. There is a little loss to the margins of some end papers to long defunct insects who took a fancy to them. A fine edition of this great 17th century diary which provided eyewitness accounts of the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London, his private life and role as naval administrator.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. & London: Longman et al., 1819. 12 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A splendid Regency tree calf with bold gilt tooling. Gilt bands, twin labels and striking gilt tooling to the panels. Twin gilt fillets frame the tree calf of the boards. Decorated with gilt engraved frontispieces and full page plates. Slight loss to one tail cap. A set of the works of Scott categorised by him as the novels and tales, including some of the most popular works of fiction in the whole of the 19th century.

London: Gulielmus Pickering, 1831. 2 volume set, 4 1/8 inches tall. A wonderful full crushed morocco by Holloway. With raised bands, blind pallets and gilt Aldus leaves in the panels. The boards have a blind panel with gilt Aldus leaves as corner tools. Gilt dentelles and all edges. A delightful small set printed by William Pickering with miniscule type, in the original Greek.

London: Johnson, Cuthell et al., 1804. 2 volume set, 11 1/4 inches tall. A simple but elegant later half morocco by Ramage with gilt raised bands, ornate centre tools and top edges gilt. Decorated with portrait frontispiece and 14 very fine full page engravings. Bookplate. This hugely successful epic poem, written by Tasso in the middle of the 16th century, tells the story of the First Crusade in which Godfrey of Bouillon leads the Christian Knights into battle, and eventual victory, against the Muslims, to take Jerusalem in 1099. The Poem is a heady mixture of violence and romance set in a romantic and exotic setting that proved particularly popular before the French Revolution and during the Romantic period. A splendid copy in pristine condition.

London: William Pickering, 1825. 5 volume set, 7 3/4 inches tall. A very unusual Victorian full orange straight grain morocco for Sotheran of Piccadilly with gilt raised bands and gilt pallets framing the panels and rolls the boards. Gilt dentelles and top edges. Armorial bookplates. A beautiful set of the Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, most famous for 'The Faerie Queene', one of the greatest of all English poets.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892-99. 8 volume set bound in 9, 8 1/2 inches tall. A handsome half calf with gilt raised bands, dense gilt panels and twin labels. Colour frontispiece to volume I, photographic views, maps and other illustrations throughout. An interesting work rarely found in a fine binding.

London: Her Majestys Stationery Office, 1954, 1956, 1960 & 1961. 3 volume set bound in 4 volumes, 9 1/2 inches tall. It is very unusual to find this great title in a fine leather binding. This set is in a very smart half crushed morocco by Maltby's of Oxford with gilt raised bands, twin labels and neatly gilt framed panels. With gilt top edges. Bookplate. All first editions. Roskill's masterpiece is the celebrated, official history of Britain's war at sea in the Second World War. It is still considered the definitive work on the subject and is packed with over 180 illustrations and over 150 folding maps and plans. There is some tiny loss to the bottom corner of the first volume's text block, otherwise in pristine condition.

London: Rivington et al., 1810. 8 volume set, 6 inches tall. A handsome later (c.1890) full calf with gilt and blind bands and red labels. At the head of each title page a strip has been removed (presumably to remove an owner's name) and expertly repaired. Minor foxing. Richardson's masterpiece is considered one of the greatest, earliest and longest of English novels. A novel written as a series of letters it is the tragic tale of Clarissa Harlowe, a young woman whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family.

London: Scott, Webster, & Geary, n.d., c. 1845. 2 volume set, 9 1/2 inches tall. A splendid early Victorian full hard grain morocco with gilt raised bands, charming floral gilt tooling to the panels and magnificent and very elaborate extra gilt tooling to the boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. Engraved portrait and forty engraved plates. Slight fading to the spines and a little foxing, otherwise a superb set which includes the sonnets.

London: Evans, 1810. 4 volumes, bound in 2, 8 inches tall. A splendid full calf binding with gilt raised bands, simple gilt 'Aldine Leaf' centre tools, elegant panels to the boards, gilt dentelles and gauffered edges. A neat ink inscription 'Rebecca Sutherland 1855' on the first blanks. This, the third edition, is revised and considerably enlarged by the author's son, R.H.Evans.