DICKENS, Charles.
The Nonesuch Dickens. Edited by Arthur Waugh [and others].
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937-38.
After the Depression of the early thirties, the Nonesuch Press was effectively saved from bankruptcy by the intervention of the American, George Macy. 'The Dickens' set was very much his project and it was due to his great energy that it was produced so quickly. It was described at the time by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of the most glorious achievements of publishing in our time. Robert Lynd in the News Chronicle declared it the most pleasant Dickens to read that has ever been published, while The Scotsman observed: No more handsome edition of Dickens has yet appeared; nor is it easy to conceive of any which might surpass this one.' - Dreyfus.
Dr. Raymond Lister (1919–2001), miniaturist, illustrator and writer, born and lived in Cambridge. In 1934 Lister was apprenticed to the family firm, eventually becoming a director of George Lister & Sons, specialising in architectural metalwork and carrying out restoration around the country. He was made Prime Warden of the Blacksmiths' Company, 1989–90. Dr Lister was a noted art historian, specialising in British romantic art, a fellow of Wolfson College and a syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1981–90. Among his many books were Samuel Palmer and his Etchings, 1969; The Letters of Samuel Palmer, 1975; George Richmond, 1981; and Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer, 1988. His autobiography, With My Own Wings, appeared in 1994. Lister studied privately with the miniaturist Albert Cousins.
Nonesuch edition, number 433 of 877 limited sets; 25 volumes, including 'Dickensiana', large 8vo (260 x 180mm); with illustrations printed from the original plates, pages are fresh; publisher's vari-coloured cloth, morocco labels, top edges gilt on the rough, others uncut, a near-fine set.
Dreyfus 108.
Stock code 122135
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The Nonesuch Dickens.
MILTON, John; PHILIPS, Edward (translator).
Letters of State,
1694.
The first edition in English of Milton's Literare Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, translated by his nephew Edward Phillips, and containing three previously unpublished preliminary sonnets
$2,533.00
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Other Fables.
1897.
A handsome copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
$391.00
STOKER, Bram.
Dracula.
1897.
First edition of Bram Stoker's vampire classic, a genre-defining masterpiece inspiring numerous reprints, variations, pastiches, stage & screen versions
$23,954.00
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [with] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
1892; 1894.
A delightfully illustrated two volume set of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$5,339.00
