GLEIG, George.
The Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington.
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891.
One of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the early nineteenth century, Field Marshall Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, twice served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
8vo (18 x 13 cm); light spotting to prelims, else unmarked internally, prize bookplate to front pastedown, black and white frontispiece portrait of Wellington with tissue guard; half brown calf over cloth boards, centrepiece Bedford Modern School armorial in gilt, leather scratched in corners, spine gilt in 6 compartments, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt over red morocco panel, marbled edges and endpapers, very good; 500pp.
Stock code 124082
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The Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington.
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Milton's Literare Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, translated by his nephew Edward Phillips, and containing three previously unpublished preliminary sonnets
£1,850.00
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.
£285.00
STOKER, Bram.
Dracula.
1897.
First edition of Bram Stoker's vampire classic, a genre-defining masterpiece inspiring numerous reprints, variations, pastiches, stage & screen versions
£17,500.00
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
£3,900.00
