Fine bindings and library sets
A collection
£429
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Including: Hope, Sir Anthony. [Works]. London: A.D. Innes & Co., 1896-1901. 17 volumes, comprising: Mr Witt's Widow, Simon Dale, Tristram of Blent, Half a Hero, Father Stafford, Rupert of Hentzau, The Heart of Princess Osra, Phroso, Comedies of Courtship, Quisante, The God in the Car, The Dolly Dialogues, A Change of Air, Chronicles of Count Antonio, The King's Mirror, Indiscretion of the Duchess, all 8vo, mixed edition, uniformly bound in green straight-grain quarter morocco gilt;
Ward, Mrs Humphry. [Various works.] London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1888-1917. 41 volumes, 8vo, mixed edition, green half calf gilt;
Macaulay, Lord. The Life and Works… London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896-1897. Volumes 1-2, 4-5 and 7-10 only, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt;
Morley, John. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone. London: Macmillan & Co., 1903. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary brown half morocco gilt by Bumpus;
Greville, Charles C.F. The Greville Memoirs. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888. 8 volumes 8vo, contemporary brown half morocco gilt;
and 27 others, comprising Draper's American Civil War, Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, Gibbon's Roman Empire, The Ingoldsby Legends and 11 others, all leather bound (103)
Provenance
Select items from the estate of the late Lady Penn.