Lot 155
Collection of literature, mainly British
Works in fine bindings, 18th & 19th centuries
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
Fielding, Henry. Miscellanies. Edinburgh: printed for the author and sold by A. Millar, 1743. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf [ESTC N11032];
Jonson, Ben. Works. London: Printed for D. Midwinter, 1756. 7 vols, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, with 12 plates, 18th-century engraved armorial bookplates of Grosvenor Charles Bedford [ESTC T83079];
Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John. Works. Edinburgh: printed by James Ballantyne and Company, 1812. 14 volumes, 8vo, with half titles, contemporary calf;
Dodsley, Robert (editor). A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. London: for J. Dodsley, 1775. 6 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, gilt spines, half-titles, engraved vignettes to title-pages, engraved headpieces, bookplates [ESTC T144724];
Pearch, George (editor). A Collection of Poems, in Four Volumes. By Several Hands. London: G. Pearch, and sold by Joseph Johnson, 1775. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf uniform with the preceding work, half-titles, engraved vignettes to title-pages, engraved headpieces, bookplates (together with A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry … intended as a Supplement, 1770) [T95888];
Bowring, John. A Visit to the Philippine Islands. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1859. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf prize binding of the Royal High School of Edinburgh, with 9 coloured plates and woodcut illustrations;
Alexander, William. The History of Women in Antiquity. London: printed for C. Dilly, 1782. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green goatskin, spines in compartments with gilt tooling, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, without half titles [ESTC T36569];
[Surtees, Robert Smith]. Plain or Ringlets? London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, with 12 hand coloured steel-engraved plates, and numerous woodcut illustrations by John Leech;
and others, including Oliver Goldsmith and Anthony Hamilton (51)