Illustration: Several b/w full pp. portraits and Maps and plans, frontis, occasional foxing. Set 5 : 23×14.5cm., full blue cl. with gilt motif to cover center, gilt title to sp., title pp. in red and black, text clean, few pinholes, edges thumbed. Signed by Author with inscription, ‘Presented to Senior Under Officer Robert H. Stallard with best wishes for his future career by the Author Roberts. R.M.A. Woolwich 22nd Dec. 1903.’
Forty-one years in India, form Subaltern to Commander-in-chief SET 4
Illustration: Several b/w full pp. portraits and Maps and plans, frontis, occasional foxing. Set 3 : 23×14.5cm., full blue cl. with gilt motif to cover center, gilt title to sp., title pp. in red and black, pp. yellowed, pp. brittle, text clean.
Illustration: Several b/w full pp. portraits and Maps and plans, frontis, occasional foxing. Set 3 : 23×14.5cm., full blue cl. with gilt motif to cover center, gilt title to sp., title pp. in red and black, pp. yellowed, pp. brittle, text clean.
Illustration: Several b/w full pp. portraits and Maps and plans, frontis, occasional foxing.
Binding: Set 2 : 23×14.5cm., full blue colour With gilt motif to cover center, gilt title to spine, dec. epps., slight foxing, pp. sl. brittle, text clean.
Condition: Good
Special Remark: We have 6 such sets available with us.
Illustration: A large number of b/w full pp. plates, also few coloured. plates with individual tissue guards, frontis with tissue guard.
Condition: Good+
Binding: 25.5cm x 17cm, full blue cloth with gilt title to cover and spine, extremely few wormholes, pp. slight yellowed and brittle, binding loose, edges thumbed and spine ends slight worn, teg.
Illustration: Several full pp. b/w steel engravings throughout with individual tissue guards, frontis, title page, occasional foxing.
Condition: Average
Binding: orig. brown morocco with gilt elephant to cover, gilt title to spine With gilt camel, sp. frayed in parts, edges sl. thumbed, aeg, paper slight yellowish.
Edited by Prof. George Saintsbury, M.A. Translated by: Emily Mary Waller, The Lady Mary Loyd and Dr. Edmund Burke Thompson. Illustrations by Gustave Fraipoint and S. Arco.
Illustration: Several full pp. etchings throughout the set with tissue guards, pp. yellowed and slight brittle otherwise in good condition.
Condition: Average
Binding: 22x14cm, orig. re-backed brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt dec. spine with gilt title, marbled epps, cover and edges frayed and thumbed, title pp. in red and black, untrimmed, stamp of previous seller, few pp. loose but intact, spine chipped in parts, teg, slight foxing throughout.
The Plays of William Shakespeare, accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens, Esq with glossarial Notes. To which are prefixed an account of the life and writings of Shakespeare by Mr. Rowe and Dr. Johnson’s celebrated preface to his edition of Shakespeare printed in 1765.Volumes: Ten. Vol. 1,2,4,7,10 available INCOMPETE SET
Binding: 7×4″, original brown calf with gilt border to cover, gilt dec. spine With gilt title to leather label, 4 raised bands to spine, marbled epps, all edges marbled, slight foxing throughout, spine worn in parts. Condition: Average+
Illustration: With over 600 prints from original drawings and 120 studies in color. Occasional wormholes.
Condition: Average+
Binding: 11×8″, orig. green cloth with gilt title to cover and spine, gilt lion to cover and gilt bird to spine, sp. frayed and torn in parts, wormholes throughout the book, binding loose, pp. getting brittle, edges thumbed.
The works of Shakespeare SET:3. Three. Vol 1: Comedies, Vol 2:Tragedies, Vol 3: Histories
With a memoir and essay on his genius, by Barry Cornwall, illustrated with engravings on wood, from designs by Kenny Meadows
Condition: Good Several woodcut vignettes throughout, title pp. in red and black, text in double columns. Binding:10.5×6.7, half red morocco over buckram cl., gilt title and dec. to sp., marbled epps., edges thumbed, all edges marbled, covers sl. loose. Condition: Average
Edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall with notes and introductions to each play by F.A. Marshall and other Shakespearian Scholars. With numerous illustrations by Gordon Browne.
Condition: Average + Several full-paged woodcut engravings with tissue guards, frontis, prints of woodcut vignettes throughout the book, slight spotting mostly to pl. margins.
Binding: Orig. brown color with a lady made in black and gilt to cover, gilt dec. spine. with a man with a spear in black and gilt, small child made to back cover in black, beveled edges, edges thumbed, spine ends bumped, aeg, text in double columns, sl. foxing.
Special Remarks: Vol’s 2 – 8 available, Vol 1 missing
Condition: Average+. Illustration: Several b/w printed photographic images, colored plates with printed tissue guards, occasional wormholes.
Binding: 10″ x 7″, orig. green cloth with gilt title to spine, wormholes throughout the book, paper is getting brittle, red and black title page, edges thumbed, spine ends frayed, Binding: poor
ILLUSTRATED: Only in vol. XVI (Just So Stories) by the Author, in black and white.
Condition: Good BINDING: Original cloth-backed paper boards, a few volumes slightly soiled or spotted, most spine labels chipped and a little worn, 2 edges uncut, t.e.g.
Binding Condition: Average
COMMENTS: Large 8vo, Volume I signed by Kipling. Printed by R.& R. Clark from the Florence Press type, designed by Herbert P. Horne, and lent by Chatto & Windus, the proprietor of the type. Includes paper title panel on the last blank, laid in. Some foxing and offsetting to endpapers and half-title, a few joints cracking, otherwise a very good set.
