1835. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, n.d. 4 vols. Half morocco and blue cloth boards, ruled in gilt, backstrips gilt. Extremities a little rubbed, upper hinges tender, but in general a well preserved set. § A later printing of the complete Comic Almanack, first issued in nineteen..... More
1932. Rochester: Leo Hart, 1932. 8vo, 35 pp. Printed in black and red. Quarter vellum with decorated paper covered boards in a matching paper over card slipcase. A fine copy, slipcase rubbed and lightly worn. § Number 742 of 950 copies, signed by the illustrator Wilfred Jones. Printed on Okawara..... More
1963. [San Francisco:] Book Club of California, 1963. Folio, (6), 64 pp. Original red cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Tipped-in colored frontispiece from the Ellesmere Manuscript at the Huntington Library, two vignettes, and nineteen full-page reproductions of pages from various editions of Chaucer’s works, from the..... More
1879. Edinburgh: William Paterson; London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1879. 8vo, xii, 304 pp. Large paper copy handsomely bound by Lloyd in full polished calf with triple gilt fillet, richly gilt backstrip with green and red labels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Backstrip a little worn with a...... More
1875. Edinburgh: William Paterson; London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1875. 8vo, xxii, 295 pp. Large paper copy handsomely bound by Lloyd in full polished calf with triple gilt fillet, richly gilt backstrip with green and red labels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Backstrip and joints a little worn..... More
1860. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. 3 vols. 8vo. Full tree calf with floral gilt border, gilt-tooled backstrips with title and volume labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Backstrips dulled, upper joints of first two vols. cracking, endpapers only lightly foxed, very good. § Tenth edition. A handsome edition..... More
1939. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 2 vols. Large 8vo, viii, 392; iv, 388 pp. Portrait frontispiece and folding plate of facsimile manuscript. Half red morocco and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, backstrip with raised bands compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Bindings a little rubbed and soiled, gilt dulled, internally a...... More
1823. Oxford: Claredon Press, 1823. 6 vols. 8vo. Contemporary polished calf ruled in blind, backstrip with raised bands and black, gilt-lettered labels. Boards scarred, backstrips a little rubbed, some labels chipped; internally a very good, clean copy with occasional spotting to the endpapers but almost none to the next. Armorial..... More
1848. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. 8vo, xvi, 624 pp. Illustrated throughout by the author. Bound by Root & Son in full crushed red morcocco with triple gilt fillet, a pictorial centerpiece on upper board depicting Thackeray as a jester surrouned by vines, backstrip compartments ruled and stamped in gilt..... More
1881. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881. 2 vols. 8vo, xi, (3), 338; (vi), 341 pp. Frontispiece. Finely bound without the ads in half calf and marbled boards, backstrips gilt-tooled, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Bindings a little scuffed but respectable, scattered foxing, bookplates of Richard Ormond of Tynemouth in..... More
1842. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. Sm. 4to, 191, (1) pp. Original remainder binding of brown cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt on backstrip, endpapers renewed, orange sprinkled edges. Small ticket of Books Inc., Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco on rear pastedown. Cloth faded, small chip in center of..... More
1723. London: Printed for E. and R. Nutt, et al, 1723. 4 vols. 12mo, vi, 336, (10); iv, 376, (12); viii, 352, (16); vi, (4), 352, (12) pp. Full contemporary paneled calf, raised bands, volume numbers stamped on backstrips, vol. 4 with additional label lettered "Tat / lers". Hinges cracked..... More
