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The Plays of William Shakspeare [sic] accurately printed from the Text of the corrected Copy left...

Blake, William.

The Plays of William Shakspeare [sic] accurately printed from the Text of the corrected Copy left by the late George Steevens [sic], Esq. With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli… and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, From the most eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chambers…

1805. London: C and J. Rivington, 1805. 10 volumes, royal 8vo, with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle, Cromek, Rhodes, Dodley, and two by William Blake. Original calf, rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip, also rather worn..... More

Price: $2,750.00

Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon, Dictated by the Emperor at Saint...

Bonaparte, Napoleon.

Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon, Dictated by the Emperor at Saint Helena to the Generals who Shared his Captivity; and Published From the Original Manuscripts Corrected by Himself...[and] Historical Miscellanies.

1823. London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co. and Martin Bossange and Co., 1823. Seven vols., 8vo., [xvi], 408; viii, [1]-395; [xvi], [1]-423; viii, [1]-483, [1 errata]; [viii], 377; viii, [1]-471; [x], [1]-389 pp., 18 fold-out plates, five of which are used as frontispieces. Contemporary half green calf roll-tooled in..... More

Price: $975.00

Five Christmas Books:] A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas; The Cricket...

Dickens, Charles.

[Five Christmas Books:] A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas; The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home; The Battle of Life. A Love Story; The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out and A New Year In; The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time.

1843. London: Chapman & Hall, MDCCCXLIII (1843); London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846; London: Bradbury & Evans, MDCCCXLVI (1846); London: Chapman & Hall, MDCCCXLV (1845); London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 5 vols., 8vo, illustrated with engravings see below for the discussion of states and pagination. All volumes in full dark green..... More

Price: $13,750.00

The Works... with an Essay on the Life and Genius of the Author. Henry Fielding

Fielding, Henry.

The Works... with an Essay on the Life and Genius of the Author.

2017. London: Strahan [and 20 others], 1775. 12 vols., small 8vo, variously paginated. With a portrait frontispiece of the author in vol. 1. Contemporary calf restored, every volume repaired at head and foot, backstrips restored, lacking 4 labels, some intermittent foxing and browning in several volumes. A good reading set..... More

Price: $975.00

The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Now...

Franklin, Benjamin.

The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Now Collected and Arranged, with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself.

1806. London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-Row, 1806. Three vols., 8vo., xiv, [1]-440, [36 index]; vi, [1]-468; [x], [1]-552 pp., one engraved frontis portrait and three vignette titles, 12 engraved plates as issued, some fold-out, and one fold-out table. Contemporary half..... More

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The Writings of Bret Harte. Bret Harte

Harte, Bret.

The Writings of Bret Harte.

1896. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, [1896]-1914. 20 volumes, 8vo., xix, [1]-444; xxxv, [1]-440; [viii], [1]-430; [vii], [1]-460; [viii], [1]-482; [viii], [1]-460; [viii], [1]-488; [viii], [1]-483; x, [1]-474; [viii], [1]-447; [viii], [1]-445; [xi], [1]-441; [vii], [1]-327; [vii], [1]-331; [viii], [1]-382; [viii], [1]-381; [viii], [1]-355; [viii], [1]-363; xxvi, [1]-433; xxvii, [1]-432..... More

Price: $1,975.00

The Works. Standard Edition. Herman Melville

Melville, Herman.

The Works. Standard Edition.

London: Constable, 1922-24. 16 vols., 8vo, finely bound in full red hard-grain morocco extra (two volumes repaired) some volumes lightly rubbed along the joints but generally very good. Red morocco bookplate of Lucy Smith Battson in each volume. § First collected edition limited to 750 sets of which very few..... More

Price: $17,500.00

The Works of Alexander Pope in Verse and Prose. Containing the Principal Notes of Doctor's...

Pope, Alexander. Bowles, Rev. William Lisle.

The Works of Alexander Pope in Verse and Prose. Containing the Principal Notes of Doctor's Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, and Others. To Which are Added Now for the First Time Published Some Original Letters with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author [Ten Volumes Complete].

1806. London: Printed for J. Johnson [and others]...1806. Ten vols., 8vo., cxxxiv, 389; viii, 447; vi, 439; vi, 476; vi, 423; vi, 422; xxxvi, 431; xix, 486; xvi, 499; xi, 387, [48] pp., with three frontisportraits and 18 engraved plates printed to recto only. Full contemporary polished calf, roll-tolled in..... More

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Waverley Novels. Sir Walter Scott

Scott, Sir Walter.

Waverley Novels.

1842. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell; London: Houlston & Stoneman, 1842-47. Twelve vols., large 8vo., viii, [1]-674; viii, [1]-676; vi, [1]-[670]; viii, [1]-685; viii, [1]-580; vi, [1]-617; viii, [1]-727; vii, [1]-600; viii, [1]-728; viii, [1]-588; vi, [1]-614; vii, [1]-524 pp., each volume with a steel engraved frontis with tissue guard, and woodcut..... More

Price: $1,250.00

The Plays and Poems... with the Corrections and Illustrations of various Commentators:...

Shakespeare, William.

The Plays and Poems... with the Corrections and Illustrations of various Commentators: comprehending a Life of the Poet and an enlarged History of the Stage, by the late Edmund Malone. With a new glossarial Index.

1821. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1821 21 vols., 8vo, early mottled calf, skillfully rebacked in tan calf with red and black labels lettered in gilt. A very good set. § Only printing of the so-called ‘Boswell’s Malone’, upon which Colin Franklin comments in “Shakespeare Domesticated”..... More

Price: $4,500.00

The Spectator. New Edition, carefully corrected from the Originals with Historical, Biographical,...

[Steele, Richard. Addison, Joseph, and others].

The Spectator. New Edition, carefully corrected from the Originals with Historical, Biographical, and Explanatory Notes, Contents and a General Index. To which are Prefixed, The Lives of the Authors.

1819. London: Printed for J. Bumpus, Holborn-Bars, [for numerous booksellers]. 1819. 8 vols., 8vo, variously paginated. With an engraved frontispiece after Stothard in each volume Old calf, some covers a bit worn, brightly rebacked with red labels lettered in gilt. § Best edition, a pleasant copy. “The Spectator” was a...... More

Price: $495.00

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in Twenty Two Volumes. William Makepeace Thackeray

Thackeray, William Makepeace.

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in Twenty Two Volumes.

1869. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1869. 22 vols., 8vo. Uniformly bound in handsome full tree calf, delicate floral gilt border on covers. Gilt backstrip with red and dark-brown morocco labels. Gilt turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and edges. Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow, bookseller ticket on front pastedown of each volume. Occasional rubbing..... More

Price: $2,750.00

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. William Makepeace Thackeray

Thackeray, William Makepeace.

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray...

1518. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1899. 13 vols., 8vo., xliv, 676; xlvii, 752; xli, 646; xxxvi, 711; xliii, 772; xxxvii, 759; xlvi, 725; xl, 806; lx, 340; xliii, 809; xlvi, 640; xl, 568; lxxxii, 751 pp., 558 plates including frontispieces of which 7 are portraits, many..... More

Price: $1,250.00

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau... A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Walden; The...

Thoreau, Henry David.

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau... A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Walden; The Maine Woods; Cape Cod and Miscellanies; Excursions and Poems; Familiar Letters Edited By F. B. Sanborn; Journal Edited By Bradford Torrey...

1906. Boston and New York: The Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1906. 20 vols., 8vo., xlv, [1]-435; x, [1]-375; xi, [1]-364; xii, [1]-489; xv, [1]-431; xv, [1]-460; liii, [1]-488; [xii], [1]-505; [xii], [1]-487; [xii], [1]-495; [xii], [1]-532; [x], [1]-491; [xii], [1]-527; [x], [1]-468; [xii], [1]-503; [xii], [1]-511; [xii]..... More

Price: $2,000.00

The English Poets, Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers... Chaucer to Donne;...

Ward, Thomas Humphry [editor]. Arnold, Matthew [introduction].

The English Poets, Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers... Chaucer to Donne; Ben Jonson to Dryden; Addison to Blake; Wordsworth to Rossetti; Browning to Rupert Brooke.

1880. London: Macmillan and Co., 1880-1918. Five vols., xlvii, [1]-566, [2 ads]; xiii, [1]-496; xii, [1]-608; xiii, [1]-670; xvii, [1]-652 pp. Modern quarter brown calf ruled in blind, marbled paper boards heightened in foils, backstrip with five raised bands, green and red labels lettered in gilt, with flourishes and rules..... More

Price: $500.00

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