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London: T. Cadell; J. Rivington et al., 1828. 8 volume set,8 3/4 inches tall. A later half calf with gilt raised bands. twin labels and ornate gilt centre tools. Pink speckled edges. 1 engraved portrait and 3 engraved folding maps. Some rubbing, a couple of chipped head caps, slight grubby and with foxing to the maps. A solid complete, set with a clean highly readable text, of probably the greatest Ancient History in the English language.

London: Thomas Tegg, 1827. 2 volume set, 6 1/2 inches tall. A beautiful little Georgian full calf binding with gilt raised bands, extra gilt panels and contrasting maroon labels. Twin gilt fillets, triple blind fillets and blind corner tools frame the boards. An engraved title page in both volumes. This set covers the period " From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great". Oliver Goldsmith, novelist, poet and historian influenced later English authors Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Mary Shelley, all of whom mention his characters in their own novels. A delightful set.

London: W. Allason; et al., 1819. 12 volume set, 8 1/4 inches tall. A exceptionally good looking Regency full calf with wide extra gilt raised bands, blind tooling to the panels and twin labels. With one engraved portrait and two folding maps, as called for. A few small marks to the boards, otherwise in excellent condition, inside and out. First published in 1776, Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall' was initially planned as a history of the final years of the Roman Empire but was expanded in scope to the history of the whole Roman Empire. It is still considered to be one of the greatest histories ever written.

London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1849. Full morocco, 7 1/2 inches tall. An impressive Victorian binding with gilt raised bands, fine extra gilt tooling to the panels and boards, gilt dentelles and all edges. Engraved illustrations throughout. Slight rubbing and a neat ink inscription, dated 1852, on the first blank. Philip Henry Gosse was an English naturalist who popularised many aspects of natural science. He natural created the world's first public aquarium at London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium".

London: Printed by T. Bensley, for J. White et al., 1809. 3 volume set, 8 1/4 inches tall. A remarkable Regency full 'russia' diced calf in superb condition with gilt raised bands, and exceptionally fine gilt tooling in the head and tail panels. Twin gilt fillets and a gilt roll frame the diced boards. This set is embellished with 37 engraved portraits. Some offsetting from the plates. "The book is the most entertaining of contemporary memoirs, in no other book is there a description so vivid, truthful and graceful of the licentious court of Charles II.....Grammont's scandalous tongue knew no restraint....". (Ency.Brit.). A superb set of this classic work.

London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1874. Full calf, 11 inches tall. A most impressive binding by Riviere with gilt raised bands, orange label and gorgeous gilt tooling to the panels. The boards are framed within a triple gilt fillet. Gilt dentelles and all edges. marks to the boards and foxing to the preliminaries. A finely printed edition, with 4 photographic plates, of these great English 18th century poems, including 'Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard'.

London: Methuen & Co., 1896. 7 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A really elegant Victorian full calf with gilt raised bands and extra gilt panels around an 'Eagle of Jove (Aëtos)' centre tool. Three gilt fillets frame the boards, the upper boards bearing the gilt blocked crest of Oriel College, Oxford. Gilt dentelles and all edges. With the armorial bookplate of Harold Hamilton Broadmead of Enmore Castle. An exceptionally clean and smart set of Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall', one of the greatest histories ever written.

Alnwick: W. Davison, 1842. Full calf, 6 3/4 inches tall. A delightful little Victorian, 'Divinity' or 'Oxford' binding with raised bands, olive label and ornate blind tooling to the panels and boards. Pink edges. Withe the Binder's Ticket of Birdsall. Each fable has a charming engraved vignette. A fine little edition of these celebrated 18th century fables.

London: John Murray, 1825. 2 volume set, 6 1/2 inches tall. An elegant set in a Georgian full calf with gilt bands, twin labels and elaborate gilt tooling to the panels. With the armorial bookplate of Robert Williams, from the recently dispersed library of a Dorset Country House. Portrait. Slight rubbing and light foxing to the portrait, overall a lovely copy of this scarce edition in English.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. 4 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A splendid late Victorian tree calf by Riviere with gilt raised bands, delicate floral gilt tooling to the panels and twin labels. A gilt roll frames the boards. With 8 folding maps. Scratching to the lower board of the fourth volume, but still a fine and elegant set of this classic history.

London: Shakspeare Printing Office, 1804. Full morocco, 9 inches tall. A superb later crushed morocco by the great firm of Bedford. With gilt raised bands and very fine gilt tooling to the panels. Gilt dentelles and all edges. Slight rubbing. With delightful full page engravings and engraved vignettes by Bewick. With lives of Goldsmith and Parnell, Parnell's greatest poem, 'The Hermit' and Goldsmith's 'The Traveller' and 'The Deserted Village'.

Chiswick: From the Press of C. Whittingham, 1822. Full calf, 5 inches tall. A charming little Regency straight grain by T. Smyth of Exeter, and with their ticket. With gilt bands and elaborate gilt tooling to the panels. A flowery gilt roll frames the boards. Speckled edges. A neat ink former owner's name, Mary Anne Davey, on the first blank and inside the rear free end paper. With an engraved title page and vignettes.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1932. Full morocco, 7 1/2 inches tall. A super mosaic binding by Riviere with gilt raised bands fine gilt floral tooling to the panels, gilt dentelles and all edges. On the boards, within elaborate gilt borders, splendid colourful morocco onlays illustrate two of the "Bab" Ballads, 'The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell"' on the upper board and 'For he who'd make his Fellow-Creatures Wise should always Gild the Philosophical Pill' on the lower. Embellished with 350 illustrations, also by W. S. Gilbert. Very slight rubbing and an extensive neat ink inscription on the first blank, otherwise a pristine collection of Gilbert's light verse, named after is childhood nickname, in which he developed his "topsy-turvy" style of humour.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. 4 volume set, 8 3/4 inches tall. A sparkling late Victorian half calf binding by Mudie with gilt raised bands, contrasting twin labels and gilt floral centre tools. A fine set of this classic work by the English historian Richard Green, in pristine condition, inside and out.

London: Whellier, 1824 & 1821. 2 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. Full Georgian tree calf binding in excellent condition with the binder's ticket of S.Payne of Dursley.. The bindings have ornate gilt pallets bordering a wide inked band and large gilt centre tools, typical of the period. A neat previous owner's ink stamp is to be found on the free endpapers. Volume 1, the 5th edition, contains the Laws and Statutes and Criminal Law of England with a supplement. Volume 2, the 1st edition, contains a further supplement. It is unusual to find both volumes, especially in this condition.

London: Nimmo, 1889. 2 volume set, 10 1/2 inches tall. A splendid set in full crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf with gilt raised bands, elegant gilt fromed panels and with triple fillets framing the boards. Superb gilt dentelles and top edges gilt. Some marking to the bindings. From the Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. This set is number 235 from a deluxe limited edition with the 25 plates by Joseph Grego in two states, one hand coloured. The extraordinary Captain Gronow was a dandy mixing with finest society in London and Paris, gambler, military man present at Waterloo, writer and politician. A lovely set of this fine edition.

London: John Murray, 1854. 4 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A classic Victorian full calf by the great firm of Hayday & Mansell, with gilt raised bands, twin labels and elaborate gilt tooling to the panels. Twin gilt fillets, a blind fillet and rose corner tools frame the boards. 4 engraved title pages. There is a neat ink inscription 'on leaving Eton, July 1862' on the first blank. A minor stain runs along the foredge of the plates. A handsome set of the works of Oliver Goldsmith, the great Anglo-Irish novelist, naturalist and poet.

London: George Pringle Junior, 1824. 48 inches by 40 inches (1220m x 1020m). Large scale county map of Westmorland, dissected and mounted on linen and beautifully hand-coloured. In an exceptionally fine Georgian slip case constructed of calf internally and cased in straight grain morocco, gilt and blind tooled. Gold leaf imitates the fore edge of a text block. Slight rubbing and fading but in near pristine condition inside and out.