London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921. Forty-nine volumes bound in four, each individually paginated. Small folio. Quarter maroon morocco over matching boards, gilt lettered to the spine, ex-libris Victoria Institute, Worcester Public Library, with their shelf marks in gilt to the feet of the spines, bookplates to the front pastedowns...

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Amsterdamo: [Elzevir], 1665. First Amsterdam edition, later issue, 12mo, (xxiv), 744 pp. Title page printed in red and black, some light marks to first and last few leaves. Attractively bound in 20th century speckled calf, very slight sunning, red spine label, a.e.g., a handsome copy. A finely printed pocket edition...

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London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. Eighth thousand, or fourth edition, 8vo, (x), 192 pp. Frontispiece and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel, some occasional spots, marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in later maroon half morocco, t.e.g., red cloth sides, spine, sunned, with gilt vignettes, a very good copy. Williams...

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Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. Winchester edition, 10 volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece in the first volume, several hinges very slightly cracked but sound. Original green cloth, t.e.g., gilt spines with mild rubbing and bumps, faint marks to the heads of the spines of the two volumes of "Sense and Sensibility", generally...

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London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. Second edition, two volumes, 8vo. 14 plates - 5 coloured, plus 4 folding maps and a plan, contemporary owner's inscription to the fly leaves. Original gilt titled dark blue cloth, boards decorated in black, some very mild rubbing to extremities, an excellent...

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London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. First edition. Two volumes. xxviii, 338; viii, 319, (1) pp. Contemporary brown full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red labels, blindstamped decoration to the panels and an ornate border to the boards, marbled endpapers, prize bookplates from the Royal Masonic Institution...

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1868]. Small 4to. (viii), (2) pp. Publisher's printed boards recently rebacked to style in maroon cloth, contemporary gift inscription to the front free endpaper along with the original bookseller's ticket of W. Whiteley of Westbourne Grove to the front pastedown. 12 anthropomorphic colour maps of European...

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London: Edward Arnold, 1910. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 335, (1), 20 pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and decorated with a vignette of two soldiers to the upper board, "Presentation Copy" ink stamped to the title page, evidence of an old bookplate or label on the...

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Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, [c.1920]. Adelphi edition, seven volumes, 8vo. Recent green half calf, t.e.g., marbled sides, cloth sides, a fine set.

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York: Printed by A. Staples... 1738. First edition, 8vo, xxiii, (1), 367, (1) pp. Signatures to title, one partly removed affecting a couple of the printed words, modern owner's ink stamp to fly leaf. Contemporary calf, recently rebacked with a red label, some repair to corners also. Burton lists the...

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Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1860. First edition. 8vo. (viii), 248 pp. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, remnants of old paper label to the spine, old ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Neatly recased, very good overall.

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Amstelædami [Amsterdam]: Joannem Walters, 1699. 8vo. (vi), 544 pp., lacking the final 14 pages. Recent half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label. Frontispiece, title vignette, 2 folding maps of the world and 12 illustrations in the text, some full page. Dampstaining to the rear...

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