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London: Chapman and Hall, 1879. Vol I: viii, 219pp, (i), (3) adverts; Vol II: viii, 222pp, (i). Half titles present. Front pastedown bears a 1945 gift inscription to the author Joyce Cary, from whose library this came. Nicely printed on good paper, but showing clear signs of use - minor soiling to many pages, some straightened dog-ear creases, and a few pencilled comments, which I have left for their possible interest. Some foxing in the latter part of Vol II. In the original binding of light blue cloth, front blocked in black, lower board in blind, and spine in gilt. Rather dulled and soiled, with brighter area on the upper board of each, presumably formerly protected by a library label, long since removed, and an area on the lower board of Vol II where there may have been a spill. Very scarce. Good firm copy.

Price: £750.00

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1959. 536pp, with many illustrations. Map endpapers. Errata slip pasted on verso of portrait half-title. Limitation statement on verso of title page, this being copy No.104. With the ownership signature of the former British double agent and Soviet spy, member of the Cambridge Five, GUY BURGESS on the first blank. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original binding of black cloth lettered in silver. Slight sunning at spine ends, and some extremities slightly blunted. In protected red unclipped pictorial dust jacket, sunned, scuffed and chipped, with internal repairs. The three principal chips are less than an inch. [Burgess gave it to the previous owner when the latter visited him in Moscow.]

Price: £160.00

London: Longmans Green et al; and (the latter vols): Methuen; Grant Richards; and Frank Hollings. 1894-1898; 1899, 1901, 1903. All are 9 x 6ins, bound uniformly in maroon cloth with paper spine labels; top edges gilt, other edges uncut. The 28 vols each have a hand-numbered and initialled limitation leaf, this set being number 611 of the edition of 1035, and were 'Printed by T.and A.Constable for Longmans Green and Co: Cassell and Co: Seeley and Co: Chas. Scribner's Sons and sold by Chatto and Windus'. Most bear the first owner's minimal engraved bookplate. The supplementary volumes consist of: Letters to Family and Friends: 2 vols, Methuen, 1899 (with a supplement of 'Additional Letters' laid in); the Life, by Graham Balfour: 2 vols, Methuen, 1901; Stevensoniana, edited by J.A.Hammerton: Grant Richards, 1903; and the Bibliography by Prideaux: Frank Hollings, 1903. The latter (acquired separately) has a darkened spine and a soiled label, but all the rest are firm and clean, with some fading to the spines, and some puckering of the spine ends. A few of the labels have minor scuffs, but spare labels are tipped in. The four Methuen vols have some occasional foxing, but there is very little to the other vols, the contents being very clean and unmarked. There are many illustrations, including photographs and coloured maps, and the Appendix volume incorporates facsimiles of a number of ephemeral publications sewn into the binding. A very nice and unusually complete set, taking up around four feet of shelf space.

Price: £750.00