London: Blackie & Son, n.d. First or early edition. Hardcover. 224pp, with five colour plates, including the frontis. Plates and pages clean and unmarked. Front free endpaper neatly removed, gutter made good. Some foxing to half title, and rear free endpaper tanned. c.19.5x14cms, in the original quarter binding of grey..... More
![The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Complete in 5 vols. [ie: ten 'volumes', bound in five books]. Edgar...](/pictures/thumb/19140110.jpg?v=1609271495)
London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d. [1914]. [Presumed only printing of this edition.]. Hardcover. A very handsome set, looks 100 years younger than it actually is. Greenough's 1914 Introduction is followed by Maria Clemm's Preface to the 1849 edition; then there are James Russell Lowell's notice of Poe's Life and Works..... More
![The Fables of Aesop. [Signed Limited Edition]. Edward J. Detmold](/pictures/thumb/19097110.jpg?v=1542314768)
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Ltd Edn, #146 of 750 signed copies. Contents, including the 25 plates, fresh and fine. Endpapers slightly tanned, rear pastedown bubbling slightly, and small (5x1.5cm) brown stain to edge of rear endpaper, the adjacent page slightly affected. No names or marking. Top..... More
London: Griffith and Farran, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 376pp, plus the 4 plates. Attractively produced, with head- and tail- pieces. Contents generally bright and clean, with minor soil marks or foxing to some pages, including the title page. Marbled endpapers, front pastedown with some loss of surface apparently due..... More
