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7584 AinsworthAINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON:  Fourteen volumes nicely bound:  Tower of London;  Crichton; Flitch of Bacon;  Spendthrift;  Ovingdean Grange;  Star-Chamber;  Windsor Castle;  Boscobel; Mervyn Clitheroe; Auriol; Miser's Daughter;  Lancashire Witches;  Rookwood; Guy Fawkes.
London: George Routledge 1897 and n.d.
Illustrations by Phiz, Sir Joun Gilbert, H.K. Browne, Cruikshank, Johannot etc.  Fourteen volumes.  Large 8vo, contemporary half burgundy calf, marbled boards, spines floral gilt in compartments, top edges gilt.  A little light rubbing but generally very good and attractive on the shelf. 
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Price: £250.00

3365 ByronBYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD:  The Works.
London:  John Murray, 1823.
Five volumes.  Small 8vo, contemporary full calf, gilt and blind rules to sides enclosing central device in blind.  Attractive early re-back in matching calf with lettering and numbering pieces.  Some foxing, small patch of   darkening to one backstrip. 
A pleasing set attractively bound and in excellent condition. 
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Price:  £140.00

4252 CooperCOOPER, J. FENIMORE:  Novels.
London:  George Routledge, n.d.
26 volumes (complete) bound in 13.  8vo, 19th Century  half red calf, spines decoratively blocked in gilt within raised bands, double green lettering pieces.  A very pretty set in excellent condition.  
Quote Item No. 4252
Price:  £350.00

2583 CraikCRAIK, GEORGE L. & MACFARLANE, CHARLES:  The Pictorial History of England during the Reign of George the Third.  Illustrated with Several Hundred Woodcuts. 
London:  Charles Knight, 1841-1844. 
Four volumes.  Large 8vo, contemporary full tan calf, sides ruled in blind and gilt, spines gilt extra with crimson and black lettering and numbering pieces;  some slight scuffing to boards, one inner joint cracked but very firm;  a handsome binding in very good condition.  
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Price:  £220.00

7596 LyttonLYTTON, LORD:  A collection of uniformly bound novels: Harold, Last of the Saxon Kings; Alice or the Mysteries; Kenelm Chillingly; Paul Clifford; Lucretia, Children of the Night; Rienzi; My Novel; The Caxtons; Leila; Pelham; A Strange Story; Night & Morning.
London:  George Routledge, n.d. ca. 1880's.
Thirteen novels bound in 14 volumes ("My Novel" is in two volumes).  Frontispieces. Fourteen volumes.  8vo, contemporary polished maroon half calf lettered in gilt. Spines uniformly and not unattractively faded to dark brown.  The bindings by Pearse of Warrington.  Some volumes with the armorial bookplate of J. Monro Walker.  Sound strong bindings in very good condition.
Quote Item No. 7596
Price:  £200.00

2580 The Retrospective ReviewPERIODICAL:  The Retrospective Review, Volumes 1-14 & Volumes 1 & 2 New Series (complete). 
London:  Charles & Henry Baldwin, later volumes Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, 1820-1828. 
Sixteen volumes.  Engraved titles.  8vo, contemporary half tan calf , spines floral gilt and with black lettering and numbering pieces;  a little rubbed, a few headbands slightly chipped, lower joint of Volume 16 cracked, attractive on the shelf however.  
Quote Item No. 2580
Price:  £400.00

4253 ScottSCOTT, SIR WALTER:  Waverley Novels.
London:  Routledge, 1879.
25 volumes (complete).  8vo, contemporary half tan calf, spines with gilt thistles with corner ornaments within raised bands with red and black lettering pieces; a very pretty set in excellent condition.  With the armorial bookplate of J. Monro Walker on front pastedowns. 
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Price:   £495.00

5727 ScottSCOTT, SIR WALTER:  WAVERLEY NOVELS.  48 VOLUMES FULL CRIMSON CALF.
Edinburgh:  Adam & Charles Black, 1877 - 1879.
Illustrations.  48 volumes contemporary full crimson calf, sides gilt ruled, spines decoratively blocked in gilt within raised bands, with double lettering pieces, the bindings by Bickers.   Some light very occasional rubbing but generally a most attractive set in excellent condition.
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Price:  £850.00

4298 ShakespeareSHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM [FINELY BOUND]:  Works.  The "Whitehall" Edition in 12 volumes.
Westminster:  Archibald Constable & Co, 1893.
Edited from the Original Texts by H. Arthur Doubleday. Twelve volumes.  8vo, contemporary half crimson morocco, spines gilt ruled on raised band, gilt ornaments in compartments. A handsome set in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 4298
Price:   £360.00

3487 SullySULLY, MAXIMILIAN DE BETHUNE, DUKE OF:  The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great.  Translated from the French of Charlotte Lennox.  A New Edition, Revised and Corrected.
London:  Printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer, 1810.
Portraits.  Five volumes.  8vo, contemporary full marbled calf, decorative gilt rules to sides, spines blocked in gilt with military trophies, black lettering and numbering pieces.  Some foxing, a number of joints cracked, headbands chipped. 
An image is available upon request. 
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Price:  £120.00

7585 ThackerayTHACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE: The Works, with Biographical Introduction by his daughter, Anne Ritchie. 13 volumes, complete.
London: Smith, Elder, 1902.
Thirteen volumes.  8vo, contemporary half dark green calf, marbled boards, the spines floral gilt in a vaguely art nouveau design; a little light rubbing but generally very good and attractive on the shelf.
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Price:  £325.00

4999 ThiersTHIERS, ADOLPHE:  Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire.  20 volumes.
Paris:  Paulin, 1845 - 1862.
Twenty volumes.  8vo, contemporary half tan calf with black lettering and numbering pieces.  A number of headbands chipped, a few chipped at base of spine, a few lettering pieces chipped.  That apart this is still an attractive set on the shelf.
Extremely heavy and therefore not viable for export. 

Quote Item No. 4999
Price:  £200.00

7586 Whyte-MelvilleWHYTE-MELVILLE, G.J:  Twenty-two Novels: Good for Nothing; Riding Recollections; Roy's Wife; Market Harborough; General Bounce Satanella; Katerfelto;  Brookes of Bridlemere;  Uncle John;  Kate Coventry; Rosine and Sister Louise;  White Rose; Bones and I;  and nine others - see under.
London: Ward, Lock, n.d. ca. 1900.
Also: The Queen's Maries;  M. or N;  Black but Comely;  Songs & Verses;  The Interpreter; Cerise;  Sarchedon;  Digby Grand; & Contraband. In all 22 volumes. Illustrations by Kemp-Welch, Jacomb Hood, etc. Contemporary half black calf, marbled boards, the spines blocked in gilt within compartments with hunting motifs, a whip, fox etc. Top edges gilt.  Some light rubbing but generally very sound and attractive on the shelf. 
Quote Item No. 7586
Price:  £330.00

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