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London: William Pickering, 1825. First edition thus. c.300pp per volume: each 3.5 x 2.1 ins / 9 x 5 cms. Previous owner's small green name label (5 x 20mm) on pastedown of each vol. Pages slightly cockled. Contents very clean with the rare odd minor brown spot. Top edges dusty. In the original bindings of russet cloth, beautifully restored and with new printed paper spine labels. Housed at present in a worn wooden box, probably original, with no lid. Lovely miniature set. VG+.

Price: £540.00

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1930. First edition. [vi], 50pp. Front free endpaper bears a 1930 gift inscription by the Spencer 'in old friendship', and laid in is his handwritten letter to accompany it. Unopened, and printed on laid paper, with slight foxing to ends. In the original thin card covered in decorative paper with a printed label to the front. Some browning, and the paper yapp edges have frayed with some loss. Half inch chip to foot of spine, and splits to paper surface of spine and upper joint, but boards firm. A pretty item, and scarce. VG.

Price: £38.00

Manchester University Press, 1990. First edition. xvi, 224pp. Ownership name to front free endpaper. Small nick to edge of half-title and some rumpling or creasing of the prelims and first few text pages: contents otherwise clean, most of the book appearing unread. Firm, in the original black cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and sharp. In the protected ochre dust jacket, fresh and bright, with a small scuff to the head of the lower joint, and the top edge slightly knocked. Good hardback copy of a title scarce in any form. Very Good in very good+ dust-jacket.

Price: £85.00