London: Cecil Palmer, (1920). First edition, 8vo, 126 pp. Original wrappers, some light soiling otherwise very good. More

London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1898. Five volumes. Small 8vo. Contemporary teal half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two volumes and with a gilt flower device repeated to the others, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Frontispieces and decorative title pages to each volume..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. Second edition. Two volumes. 8vo. (x), 308; (viii), 306 pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, twin gilt lettered red labels, gilt decorated to the other compartments, endpapers and all edges marbled. Both volumes rebacked preserving much of the original..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1841. First separate edition, large 8vo, (v-vi, iv), (229)-306, 420 pp, with the preface leaf bound in before the title. Engravings in the text, marbled endpapers and edges, s small closed tear with very slight loss to the top edge of the rear free endpaper. Original..... More

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First edition. 8vo. (iii)-xvi, 624 pp, bound without the half title. 19th century red half calf over marbled boards, rebacked to style in a close matching leather, gilt lettered green label and gilt rules, endpapers and all edges marbled, early armorial bookplate of Thomas Erskine..... More

Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1887. First edition thus. 4to. (ii), 121, (1) pp. Publisher's blindstamped white cloth backed green boards, gilt lettered to the spine and upper cover, slightly later ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Portrait frontispiece tipped in, second title and 23 black and white plates. Occasional..... More

London: Printed and Published for the Author by Bradbury and Evans, 1846 [but 1845]. Seventeenth edition, small 8vo, (viii), 174, (2 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece, engraved title and 12 vignette engravings, contemporary signature to title. Original gilt decorated red cloth, recently rebacked retaining almost all of the original backstrip. The third..... More

London: Chapman & Hall, [c.1900]. 8vo, vi, 543, (1) pp. Frontispiece, marginal browning throughout, owner's ink stamp to front blank,front and rear blanks spotted, marbled endpapers, side and edges. Contemporary maroon half calf, spine slightly darkened. More

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, (1965-2002). Pilgrim Edition, twelve volumes, volumes V and VII reprints otherwise first editions, 8vo. Frontispieces, bookplate in volume I. Cloth, d.w.'s, volumes II and III price clipped, light browning and sunning otherwise a lovely set. More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. 8vo, (vi), 522, (2) pp. Frontispiece, marginal browning throughout, owner's ink stamp to front blank, front and rear blanks spotted, marbled endpapers, side and edges. Contemporary maroon half calf, spine slightly darkened. More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition, slightly later issue. 8vo. (xvi, 624 pp. 19th century black half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt tooled raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel, early bookplate of a Josiah Newman ("Aux Fideles Fidele") to the front pastedown, all edges marbled..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1868. 8vo. vi, 522 pp. Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and decorated to the others, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, the early armorial bookplates of Sir William Hesketh Lever and his son William Hulme..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, [1870s]. 8vo, xiv, 625, (1) pp. Publisher's olive cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, blindstamped decorations. Illustrated second title and 39 plates. Sunning to the spine, slight patchiness plus a few small chips to the boards, the upper margin of one leaf (pp. 127/8) torn but..... More