A Song of the English

by Kipling, Rudyard. W. Heath Robinson (Illustrator)

Description: Original blue cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Large quarto (10 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 278 x 219 mm.). [64] leaves. Thirty color plates (including frontispiece), mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards, each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text (half-page or smaller). Title printed in red and black. An excellent ... Read More

The Complete Works (in 26 Vols)

by Irving, Washington

Description: Near Fine. Twenty-six small octavo volumes (6 5/16 x 4 inches; 160 x 102 mm). Bound ca. 1880 in three-quarter plum calf over marbled boards ruled in blind. Smooth spines with two slightly raised bands, elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Spines uniformly sunned. Previous owner's name written on several of the title pages. Engraved frontispieces, head-and-tailpieces. A Near Fine set overall. Washington Irving (1783-1859), American author, wit, and man of ... Read More

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D. (in 2 Vols. )

by Boswell, James

Description: 2 volumes, quarto (293 x 229 mm) untrimmed, in the original boards. Rebacked with white parchment to style (likely mid 20th century). Protected by a deluxe pull-off case by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full brown morocco. Small morocco bookplates (Herschel V. Jones) to front paste-down of each volume with corresponding offsetting to adjacent leaves. Bookplates of Claud Russell. First state with Vol 1 page 135 in uncorrected state. Canceled leaves Mm4 and Nn1 in Vol 1 and E3, Oo4, Qq3, Zz1 and ... Read More