London: W. Lee, at the Turks-Head in Fleet Street: and R. Roytson at the Angel in Ivie Lane, 1652. Second edition. 8vo. (xiv), 366, 84 pp. Recent full calf, gilt lettered to the spine. Wanting the frontispiece called for in some copies of this edition. Some marginal staining, though generally...

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London: Heinemann, (1966-88). First edition. Twenty-one volumes. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jackets. Photographic illustrations throughout. The jacket spines of the three Companion volumes to volume IV sunned, some fading to the cloth of the final volume, some occasional very light edge wear and marking, a....

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London: George Allen, 1898. First edition thus, 8vo, xxvi, 504 pp. Black and white illustrations, some foxing to the frontispiece and title page, mild signs of a bookplate having been removed from the paste down. Original gilt decorated green cloth, a.e.g., light stain to the upper cover otherwise a very...

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London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1829. Sole edition, 8vo, (iii)-xxxvi, 196, (12 advertisement) pp, bound without the half title. One illustration and 7 pages of facsimile manuscript, some occasional light foxing. Uncut in modern half calf, marbled sides, a very good copy. Wise II p93.

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London: Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1870s]. Four volumes, small 8vo. Marbled endpapers, signature of Lily Noble to the title page of "Little Women". Contemporary full vellum, red morocco spine labels, each volume with matching hand painted decoration - lilies of the valley to the upper covers, a smaller bouquet to...

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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, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition. 8vo. xii, 496 pp., bound without the publisher's catalogue sometimes found to the rear. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, later pencilled ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Frontispiece showing Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1. Neatly rebacked preserving...

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Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Limited edition, no. 77 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, xxxi, (i), 177, (11) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 115 plates, mostly in colour, patterned endpapers. Original cloth backed patterned boards, spine slightly dull, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip.

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London: Richard Bentley, 1856. Small 8vo. (iv), 424 pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel and richly decorated to the others, endpapers and all edges marbled. Frontispiece and engraved title, both dated 1833. The head of the upper joint neatly...

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Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge, 1807. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (iii)-xiv, 187, (1) pp, bound without the half title. Handsomely bound in brown crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to two panels and decorated to the others, gilt inner...

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Paris: Librarie des Arts Décoratifs, [1929]. First French edition, folio, xv, (i) pp, followed by 120 black and white plates. Mild browning to endpapers only. Original gilt titled green cloth, d.w. browned and a little soiled with some loss to spine ends and extremities. Scarce.

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Eton: Printed for T. Pote, 1766. Second edition, small 8vo, xiv, 392 [i.e. 402] pp. Endpapers with some browning. Contemporary gilt ruled sheep, somewhat marked and scuffed, rebacked with a maroon label.

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