Category: Sets

Works (La Comedie Humaine).

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1896-1900.

Seller ID: 56624

53 volumes, complete. Three-quarters brown morocco & marbled boards, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Marbled end papers. Frontispiece and several plates in each volume, all of which have captioned tissue-guards. Title pages printed in black & red. Top edge gilt, other edges trimmed. Limited to One Thousand Complete Copies, this is copy #457; the colophon in the first volume is personalized for the original owner, E.V. Bodwell. Uneven fading to the spines of a few volumes, a few scuffs, otherwise this is a clean and presentable set of Balzac, in English, the complete Human Comedy. This is ...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson. Together with Boswell's Journey of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Revised and Enlarged Edition by L.F. Powell. In Six Volumes.

By: Boswell (James) and Samuel Johnson.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1950.

Seller ID: 56818

Six volumes. Original cloth, spines lettered in gilt. A very good set. Publisher's prospectus booklet laid in; also laid in is a photograph of L.F. Powell, inscribed on the verso to Bertrand Bronson in 1968. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur additional postage costs.
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart.

By: Bulwer Lytton (Sir Edward)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London: Chapman & Hall, 1852-1854.

Seller ID: 56810

Five volumes. Original blue cloth stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt. Yellow coated end papers. Frontispiece in Volume 1, extra decorative title pages in all volumes. A clean very good set. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur additional postage costs.
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The Lives of The Chief Justices of England. From the Norman Conquest Till The Death of Lord Tenterden.

By: Campbell (John, Lord)

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Northport, Long Island: Edward Thompson Co., 1894-1899. New and Revised Edition.

Seller ID: 56626

Five volumes. Red cloth, white cloth spines, designed and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, other edges cut. Color frontispieces and many plates in each volume. Scattered foxing to some early leaves, some spotting of cloth, inner hinges of Volume 5 cracked and some discoloration to the front cover of that volume; in general a clean and probably unread set in the original red cloth dust jackets, lettered and numbered on the spines. Originally published 1849-1857, this is a new and revised edition. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur additional postage costs.
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The Works of Alphonse Daudet.

By: Daudet (Alphonse)

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown / NY: Croscup and Sterling, 1898.

Seller ID: 56616

Twenty-four volumes. Three-quarters red morocco & marbled boards, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Marbled end papers. Owner's monogram (EVB) in gilt on the front cover. Frontispieces and several plates in each volume. Title pages printed in black & red. This is the Limited Edition, copy # 13 of 1000 copies printed for America. Slight rubbing to a few covers, this is a clean and handsome set in lovely condition. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur additional postage costs.
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The Fireside Dickens. Complete Edition in Twenty-two Volumes With Illustrations by Cruikshank, 'Phiz", &c.

By: Dickens (Charles)

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London: Chapman & Hall and Frowde / NY: Oxford, [1903 - 1907].

Seller ID: 56801

Twenty-two volumes bound into seventeen volumes. Half-calf & brown cloth, spines gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled end papers. A clean and attractive set. Volume 2 (Pickwick) bears a presentation from author and publisher A.L. Humphreys, also his card is laid in. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur additional postage costs.
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The Works of Benjamin Disraeli. Earl of Beaconsfield. Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems ... With A Critical Introduction by Edmund Gosse ....

By: Disraeli (Benjamin)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London & NY: Dunne, 1904.

Seller ID: 56821

Twenty volumes. Brown cloth, spines titled in gilt. Marbled end papers. Top edge gilt. Copy #553 of 1244 sets. Elaborate colour limitation leaf, many colour plates. A clean very good set. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur additional postage costs.
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Elegant Extracts: Being A Copious Selection Of Instructive, Moral, And Entertaining Passages, From The Most Eminent Prose Writers / British Poets / Epistolary Writers.

By: Elegant Extracts.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London: John Sharpe / Piccadilly: & R. Jennings, Poultry, [c.1820].

Seller ID: 56095

18 Volumes. 12mo [but bound in 4's]. Full burgundy morocco, gilt, all edges gilt. Fuchsia end papers. A handsome gilt binding with gilt harps on all covers and heavy gilt designs on all volumes. Three sections of six volumes apiece: Prose / Poetry / Epistles. Each volume has an engraved title page at the front, and a second engraved title page midway through (each volume contains two 'books'). This set bears the ownership signature of "Eliza. Teresa Palmer / 1823" on the blank front flyleaf of each volume. Scattered moderate foxing and some offsetting from engravings, a few volumes have minor ...
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Works of George Eliot.

By: Eliot (George)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London: Blackwood, 1901.

Seller ID: 56804

Ten volumes. Red cloth, spines designed and lettered in gilt. Frontispieces. Spines faded, a clean very good set. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur additional postage costs.
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Chefs-D'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain. Complete in 20 Volumes.

By: Flaubert, Murger, Sand, other French Authors.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Barrie, (1897-1899).

Seller ID: 56634

Twenty volumes. Champagne cloth, printed paper labels on spines. Frontispieces and several plates in each volume, all present in two states with tissue-guards. A few scuffs, some minor wear to some spine labels, a clean and very good set. This is the Japan Vellum Paper Edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies; this is #605. Presented in two sections of ten volumes apiece: The Realists and The Romancists. In English, translations of many uncommon works by Flaubert, Gautier, Sand, Feiullet, du Musset, de Lamartine, Halevy, Dumas, Zola, others. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur ad...
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Days of the Dandies.

By: Gronow (Captain) et al.

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: London: The Grolier Society, [c.1900].

Seller ID: 56609

Fifteen volumes. Three-quarter blue morocco & marbled boards, raised bands, spines gilt. The original owner's monogram (EVB) is in gilt on the front covers. Marbled end papers. Top edges gilt, other edges trimmed. Title pages printed in black & red. Each volume has a frontispiece in color, and several illustrations. An attractive set, all 15 volumes in fine condition. This is the Edition De Luxe, copy #621 of 1000 copies for England and America. Printed at the Edinburgh Press. Ten biographies; the contents are: Peg Woffington written by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (2 Volumes); Colley Cibber written b...
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The Writings of Bret Harte. Standard Library Edition.

By: Harte (Bret)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Boston & NY: Houghton, Mifflin, (1897)

Seller ID: 56618

Sixteen volumes. Three-quarters red morocco & marbled boards, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Marbled end papers. Owner's monogram (EVB) in gilt on the front cover. Frontispieces and several plates in each volume. Title pages printed in black & red. This is the Standard Library Edition. A clean and attractive set in great condition. Sets of Bret Harte in this edition exist in varieties of 16, 19, and 20 volumes. The first edition of Harte's accumulated work was published in five volumes in 1882. The set was expanded to 14 volumes in 1897, then enlarged to 16 volumes to include his later w...
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The Complete Works of Lord Macaulay. Whitehall Edition in Twenty Volumes.

By: Macaulay (Lord)

Price: $450.00

Publisher: NY: Putnam's, (1898).

Seller ID: 56631

Twenty volumes. Dark green half-calf & marbled boards, marbled end papers, spines gilt. Top edges gilt, other edges trimmed. Title pages printed in red & black. Frontispieces and several plates in each volume. This is the Whitehall Edition, limited to One Thousand Sets, of which this is copy #18. The calf has faded to a uniform brown on the spines and also the tips of some volumes; upper rear corner of Volume 2 (England) a bit chewed, some light wear, generally a clean and attractive set. This set comprises The History of England in ten volumes, and The Miscellaneous Works (titled on the bindi...
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The History of England from The Accession of James The Second.

By: Macaulay (Thomas Babington)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1849.

Seller ID: 56813

Ten volumes bound into Five Volumes. Short 8vo. Black half-calf & marbled boards. Frontispiece in Volume 1. A very good set. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur additional postage costs.
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Francis Parkman's Works. Frontenac Edition in 16 Volumes.

By: Parkman (Francis)

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Toronto: Morang, 1899.

Seller ID: 56625

Sixteen volumes. Green half-morocco & marbled boards, spines gilt, marbled end papers. Top edges gilt, other edges trimmed. Frontispieces and several plates in each volume. This is the Frontenac Edition, limited to 1000 numbered sets of which this is copy #393. The colophon in the first volume is on an antiqued leaf, tipped in. The green morocco has faded to brown on the spines and tips; a few scuffs, some tiny chips to edges, but a clean and attractive set. Laid into the first volume is an autograph letter from Parkman, signed and dated Boston, 1889. The short letter is on a single sheet, onc...
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The Works of William H. Prescott. Aztec Edition.

By: Prescott (William H.)

Price: $900.00

Publisher: Philadelphia & London: Lippincott, (1904)

Seller ID: 56617

Twenty-two volumes. Three-quarters blue morocco & marbled boards, spines designed and lettered in gilt. Marbled end papers. Frontispieces in color, and several plates in each volume. Title pages printed in black & red. This is the Aztec Edition, copy #139 of 250 numbered copies. A very clean and attractive set. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur additional postage costs.
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The Masterpieces of George Sand. Now For The First Time Completely Translated Into English.

By: Sand (George) (Amandine Lucille Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant).

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Barrie, [1900].

Seller ID: 56632

Twenty volumes. Gray-green Japanese book cloth, with a moire finish, printed paper labels on spines lettered in red & black. Frontispieces and several plates in each volume, all represented in two states, the frontispieces in color. This is the Edition on Japan Vellum Paper, limited to One Thousand Numbered Copies; this is copy #179. A little wear to the edges of some labels, a few scuffs, but a strong very good set. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur additional postage costs.
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

By: Scott (Sir Walter)

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Edinburgh: Cadell & Whittaker, 1833-1834.

Seller ID: 56806

Twelve volumes. 8vo. Full green calf, spines lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Yellow coated end papers. Decorative title pages & frontispieces. Some sunning of spines, modest wear to joints, a very good set. Decorative title pages and frontispieces are foxed. Index to the set at the end of Volume 12. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur additional postage costs.
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The Works of Tobias Smollett. With an Introduction by W.E. Henley.

By: Smollett (Tobias)

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Westminster: Constable / NY: Scribner's, 1899.

Seller ID: 56802

Twelve volumes. Green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, gilt decoration on front covers. Illustrated. Some sunning to spines and edges, a clean very good set. This is a heavy multi-volume set which will incur additional postage costs.
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The Life and Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. In Fourteen Volumes.

By: Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)

Price: $1,800.00

Publisher: NY: Croscup & Sterling Company / London: Macmillan, (1898).

Seller ID: 56606

Fourteen volumes. Three-quarter wine morocco & marbled boards, raised bands, spines gilt. The original owner's monogram (EVB) is in gilt on the spines and front covers. Marbled end papers. Top edges gilt, other edges trimmed. This is a limited issue of the "Biographical Edition", copy #5 of 25 copies made for America, with a numbered limitation leaf in each volume. Each volume has a frontispiece in colour, and several illustrations; the frontispieces of Volumes IV and XIV are signed in pencil by the Photographers, Walker & Boutall. The frontispiece of Volume XIV is from a photograph by Julia M...
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Category: Sets