£756
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
comprising: Can You Forgive Her?, 1864-5 (2 volumes, half-titles); The Claverings, 1867 (2 volumes, ink-stamps of Count de Torre Diaz to front free endpapers); The Last Chronicle of Barset, 1867; He Knew He Was Right, 1869 (2 volumes); The Vicar of Bullhampton, 1870; all in contemporary or later half morocco or half calf, with all plates as called for. Together with:
Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary reddish-brown half calf, all plates as called for, bound from the parts with stab-holes visible in gutter, armorial bookplate of Lord Kinnaird;
Idem. Master Humphrey's Clock [containing The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge]. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. 3 volumes in 2, large 8vo, contemporary half calf, 2 frontispieces only (of 3);
[Oliphant, Margaret]. Chronicles of Carlingford. The Rector and the Doctor's Family. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition, 8vo, contemporary blue half roan, half-title, spotting;
Idem. Chronicles of Carlingford. The Perpetual Curate. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1864. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary maroon half roan;
the lot collated with regards to plates only