Bindings
Group of finely-bound library sets
Estimate: £500 - £800
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Carlyle, Thomas. [The Works]. Boston: Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat, 1884. 'Edition de luxe', one of 315 sets on parchment linen paper, 20 volumes, 8vo (23.4 x 15cm), contemporary purple half morocco by Thomas W. Best, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, engraved frontispiece to each volume, several additional plates, spines variably faded, a little rubbing to front joints, frontispieces of Cromwell (3 volumes) damp-stained;
Hugo, Victor. [The Works]. Boston: Dana Estes & Company, c.1900. ‘Illustrated Sterling Edition’, 15 volumes, 8vo (19.8 x 12cm), contemporary tan half calf, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled sides, top edges gilt, frontispieces and plates, bookplates (Louis E. Goodman);
Barrie, J. M. The Novels, Tales and Sketches. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901-2. 'Author's Edition', volumes 1-10 (of 12), 8vo (20.8 x 13.8cm), contemporary crushed brown half morocco, spines richly gilt in compartments, top edges gilt;
Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley Novels. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1871. ‘Centenary Edition’, 25 volumes, 8vo (18 x 11.5cm), contemporary dark blue half calf, richly gilt spines, top edges gilt, steel-engraved frontispieces, vignette title-pages and plates;
Idem. The Poetical Works. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1851. 12 volumes, 8vo (16.4 x 9.6cm), contemporary half calf, red and green spine-labels, steel-engraved frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages;
Lockhart, J. G. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853. 10 volumes, 8vo (16.4 x 9.6cm), contemporary half calf uniform with the preceding work, steel-engraved frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages (92)
Provenance
From the library at Park House, Inverkeithing.