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Paris: Chez Gregoire Dupuis, rue saint Jacques, a la Fontaine d'or. 1719. First edition. Frontis, xlii, 358, [2] privelege du Roy. With the 102 exquisite copper engravings, including frontis and title vignette, after Gillot, Charles Coypel and others. Pages cockled and with a generally light tide stain to many pages, but otherwise very clean. With the heraldic bookplate of Sr. Josa. Van Neck. Edges sprinkled. Quarto, firm, in contemporary sprinkled calf with gilt spine with raised bands. Surface of boards eroded in places, spine delightful. Very Good.

Price: £540.00

London: T.Egerton for the first two titles, J.Murray for the remainder: 1813, 1817, 1817, 1816, 1818. Third, second, and first editions. A modest and beautiful set, with some browning and foxing to the pages, affecting chiefly the earlier titles. Sense and Sensibility: 2nd edn, 3 Vols, 1813. Printed for the Author and published by T Egerton. 306, 278, 294. Pride and Prejudice: 3rd edn, 2 Vols, 1817. Printed for T Egerton. 289, 311. Mansfield Park: 2nd edn, 3 Vols, 1816. Printed for J Murray. 360, 294, 354. Emma: 1st edn, 3 Vols, 1816. Printed for J Murray. 322, 351, 363, (i). Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; with a Biographical Notice of the Author. 1st edn, 4 Vols, 1818. Printed for J Murray. xxiv 300, 331, 280, 308. Ownership name in faded ink 'JH Calcott /1845' on one of the initial blanks in all vols. No half titles throughout. Endpapers marbled. Text block 7 x 4 ins, in bright half vellum with blue cloth boards, spines plainly titled and numbered in black: 7.2 x 4.3ins overall. Clean and firm, with few faint or minor marks, and small knock to head of one spine. Provenance of the collection in ink in various hands on the blanks at front of Vol I of Northanger Abbey, spanning the years from 1818, when it was purchased in Edinburgh, to 1949, when it was left to the late recent owner. The suitably undemonstrative binding done at Oxford in 1896. An exquisite collection. Very Good, bindings Near Fine.
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Price: £22,500.00

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873. First English edition. viii, 323pp: with numerous illustrations, including the guarded frontis. Some recent professional restoration to hinges. The usual black endpapers replaced perhaps a century ago, the present cream endpapers showing some mottling from age, with old handwritten and stamped ownership names, and the binder's label on the rear pastedown. Another stamped name on title page. Slight handling to prelims, and corner creases to five pages. Contents otherwise clean and bright, with occasional minor foxing. All edges gilt. In the original binding of blue pebblegrain cloth over bevelled boards blocked in black and gold: boards beautifully bright, with minor soil marks, corners a little soft: spine dulled, ends professionally restored. Very nice copy. Very Good.

Price: £750.00

London: Chapman and Hall, 1879. First edition. 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. G+.

Price: £680.00

From Grant & Co's Xmas Number, 1881. Presumed first edition. 104pp with 4 plates in black, white and pale orange, with advertisements in monochrome on the versos. Promising grotesque decorative title-piece to first page. Contents very clean, tall octavo, 8.25" x 5.25", in new brown buckram binding with front board ruled in blind and spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Near Fine.

Price: £48.00

London: Macmillan, 1889. New Edition. First single-volume edition, and the first UK edition to follow the (2-volume) first edition issued the previous year. Good copy with darkened spine. (vi), 276pp, +(4) adverts. 1892 gift inscription and 1957 ownership name on front free endpaper. A little faint soiling or browning to endpapers, and slightly rough edges to first three leaves: contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original binding of red grained cloth, front and spine blocked in gilt. Spine dulled and darkened, ends restored, boards quite bright with small bumps to corners. Scarce edition, of which apparently only 1500 were printed. Good firm copy. VG.

Price: £80.00

London: George Newnes Ltd, 1892. Second edition. (iv), 283pp. Original floral endpapers. Ownership name both on the front free endpaper and the title page. Nicely spaced print on good paper, with light soiling to many pages and a number of dog-ear creases. In the original binding of brown grained cloth, illustrated in colour, spine titled in gilt: sensitively reconditioned, with a neat repair to rear inner hinge. Upper board slightly marked, illustration rubbed. A very nice bright firm copy. Very Good.

Price: £380.00

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1894. Reprint edition*. (iv), 198pp, (i) (undated publishers'list), with illustrated title page plus a frontis and 5 other illustrations. Old ownership stamp to front pastedown, and a couple of minor soil marks to prelims: contents otherwise clean. Front endpaper partially split at hinge, but board not wobbly. In the original carmine pictorial cloth printed in black and blue with Pears soap advertisement on the back. Boards fairly bright, spine dulled but legible, slight bubbling of cloth, extremities bumped. Good copy of a book scarce in any form. [*The first edition of 1886 has 50 plates. It is not clear whether this copy is from the first or a later printing of the cheaper edition. Unlike the reprint in the British Library (which is putatively dated 1896), this one is dated (1894), and does not describe itself as a 'new and cheaper edition'.]

Price: £88.00

London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1895 - 1898. Some vols are first printings of this edition. Each subvolume is preceded by a printed title and a rubricated and decorated title, and has three plates, one of which is a frontis: plus the first volume has a portrait of Charlotte Bronte. Contents clean, with slight toning to pages. Top edges gilt. In new bindings of quarter pale buff cloth over thin slate blue boards, spines with printed paper labels. An attractive and readable set. Near Fine.

Price: £360.00

London: Horace Marshall & Son, 1900. First edition. viii, 343pp +(i) adverts. Slight browning to endpapers, contents otherwise very clean and unmarked. In the original binding of red cloth over bevelled boards, spine ruled and titled in gilt, publishers' insignia bright gilt on the back. Upper board clean, spine slightly soiled and faded, lower board has nibblings to surface pigment and a little soiling. Spine ends slightly puckered, string pull mark across lower joint. Firm, generally clean and in good order. Scarce. Very Good.

Price: £140.00