Works by Women

First deluxe edition; 8vo (242 x 160 mm); publisher's red cloth gilt, upper cover with inset illustration, all edges gilt, a fine copy.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's pink cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the nicked and very lightly rubbed and sunned dust jacket.

First edition, first impression, signed by the author; 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine in blue, with the dust jacket, spine gently leaning, but a very good copy in the nicked and somewhat tanned dust jacket with a single, tiny chip.

First edition, fourth issue; 8vo; internally clean and bright, appears unread; publisher's pictorial boards, very slight bumping to extreme corners, pictorial dust-jacket, slight fading to spine, otherwise near-fine.

First edition. 8vo, xiv, 343 pp., coloured frontispiece and 15 coloured plates after paintings by the author, prize binding by Bickers, near contemporary tree calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, 2 gilt stamps to upper cover, prize bookplate, a very good copy.

4to, engraved portrait frontispiece of Pardoe, additional engraved title, engraved map and 85 plates, contemporary red half morocco gilt, all edges gilt, offsetting from frontispiece to title with slight spotting, generally a very clean, fresh copy, joints lightly rubbed.

First edition. 8vo, 236 pp., signed by the author, illustrated from photographs throughout, original cloth, pictorial dust-wrapper, a very good copy.

First edition; 12mo; light toning to leaves, otherwise unmarked internally; original pictorial wrappers, stitched as issued, some toning to spine and covers, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

Early editions; 12 vols, 12mo (142 x 107 mm); each with half-title, frontispiece and 26 further illustrations printed in colour, each 85pp.; original pictorial boards and endpapers; comprising: The Tale of Peter Rabbit. One plate with neatly repaired closed tear at upper margin, otherwise clean; dark brown boards, very good; The Tailor of Gloucester. Internally clean; grey-blue boards, very good; The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. Internally clean; grey-blue boards, spine very slightly sunned, otherwise very good; The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. A few slight stains, otherwise clean; grey boards, spine slightly soiled, otherwise very good; The Tale of Two Bad Mice. Internally clean; red boards, spine slightly soiled with upper hinge starting to crack, otherwise very good; The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. Slight splitting between two gatherings, internally clean; brown boards, extremities slightly bumped, otherwise very good; The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher. Internally clean; light red boards, slight dampstaining to boards, spine slightly sunned, otherwise very good; The Tale of Tom Kitten. Internally clean; brown boards, foot of spine very slightly frayed, otherwise very good; The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. Internally clean; brown boards, very good; The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. Internally clean; brown boards, spine and boards slightly sunned, otherwise very good; The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. Internally clean; blue boards, boards slightly soiled, otherwise good;
The Tale of Tommy Tiptoes. Internally clean; dark green boards, extremities slightly rubbed, otherwise very good.

10 vols, 8vo (180 x 120 mm); monochrome illustrations with tissue-guards, publisher's printed Ex Libris to each upper paste-down (three personalised in ink, with the name 'E.M. Holmes, one dated '1895', small bookseller label to the foot of the front paste-downs of Sense And Sensibility volume 1, Pride And Prejudice volume 1, Mansfield Park volume 1, Emma volume 1, & Persuasion, some light toning, the odd, random spot, more prevalent to frontispiece of Northanger Abbey`, otherwise, near-fine; publisher's gilt-decorated cloth, some of the boards are lightly toned with minor marks, spines are lightly rubbed to head & foot but generally, sound and in very good order.