£1,188
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 659
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
London: Chapman & Hall, 1929. 40 volumes, 8vo, limited to 300 copies, plates after George Cruikshank and Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz'), blue half morocco, spines elaborately gilt, t.e.g., spines slightly discoloured; Wells, H.G. The Works. London, 1924. Atlantic Edition, 27 (of 28 volumes, lacking volume 23), number 237 of 1050 sets signed by H.G. Wells, original maroon buckram, t.e.g., some spines faded; Ballantyne, James, publisher Ballantyne's Novelists Library. Edinburgh, 1821. 10 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, spines gilt, rubbed; and 4 others (George Moore)