WILDE, Oscar; CRANE, Walter & HOOD, Jacomb (illustrators).
The Happy Prince and Other Tales.
London, David Nutt, 1888.
First edition, one of 1000 copies; large 8vo (230 x 175 mm); half-title, tissue-guarded frontispiece and 2 plates by Walter Crane, decorative head and tail-pieces, occasional spotting (heaviest to half-title), short closed tear to front free endpaper, small loss to upper margin of p. 51 not affecting text, auctioneers slips from 1976 loosely inserted; publisher's Japanese vellum boards, spine lettered in black and lightly rubbed, upper cover printed in red and black with illustration by Jacomb Hood, boards toned, a few small marks on lower cover, corners gently bumped, a very good-plus copy that presents well; preserved in a later chemise and green morocco-backed slipcase; [x], 116, [2]pp.
Mason 313.
Stock code 122321
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales.
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Milton's Literare Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, translated by his nephew Edward Phillips, and containing three previously unpublished preliminary sonnets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
