£875
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 694
Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
London: Methuen and Co, 1908. [The Picture of Dorian Gray with imprint Paris: Charles Carrington]. First collected edition, one of 1000 sets on handmade paper, 15 volumes in 14 (For the Love of the King and Miscellanies bound in 1), 8vo (20.6 x 14.2cm), contemporary red half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, bookseller's description (E. Joseph) laid in, spines faded and with a few marks, a little foxing to a few volumes (A Woman of No Importance; The Poems; An Ideal Husband), occasional dust-soiling (particularly to final leaves);
Shakespeare, William. The Plays ... the Fifth Edition, revised and augmented by Isaac Reed. London: J. Johnson [and others], 1803. 20 volumes (of 21: without final volume, containing Titus Andronicus), 8vo (21.5 x 12.5cm), contemporary straight-grain red morocco gilt, Greek key roll gilt to turn-ins, all edges gilt, spines faded;
Kipling, Rudyard. The Writings in Prose and Verse. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1897-1900. 17 volumes (of 38; this set originally comprising 20; lacking volumes 3, 19 and 20, plus 21-38), 8vo (21 x 13.8cm), 20th-century red crushed morocco gilt, bookplates of Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, Scottish-American industrialist and benefactor), fading to spines (52)
Provenance: Sir Alexander Stone (1907-1998), Scottish financier and benefactor.