19th-century literature
Collection of works, finely bound
£882
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Dickens, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist ... A New Edition, Revised and Corrected [i.e. first one-volume edition]. London: for the author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 8vo, contemporary half morocco, original front wrapper bound in, half-title, 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, plates spotted and browned, plate facing p. 204 with small marginal repair;
Idem. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, etched additional title-page, frontispiece and 38 plates by Phiz, spotted and browned, front inner hinge tender;
Idem. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition, bound from the parts with stab-holes visible, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, half-titles, 40 wood-engraved plates by Marcus Stone, publisher's slip tipped to volume 1 p. 1;
Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, wood-engraved folding frontispiece, folding map, all plates as called for;
and 9 others: Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays, 1858 (3 volumes, contemporary tan calf); Percy Bysshe Shelley, Works, 1854 (contemporary half vellum); Samuel Johnson, The Works, 1850 (2 volumes, contemporary half morocco); Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, c.1880 (3 volumes, contemporary Marlborough College prize-binding of brown calf gilt); Boswell, Life of Johnson, c.1880 (4 volumes in 2, contemporary tan half calf); Byron, The Poetical Works, 1846 (contemporary tan calf); Tennyson, The Works, 1884 (contemporary prize-binding of green calf gilt); Swift, The Works, 1864 (2 volumes, contemporary tan calf); Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1877; all with bookplates of John [Faulkner] Child, with motto 'Imitari quam invidere'