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8vo, abridged edition, xiv, 756 pp., contemporary red polished calf gilt by Bayntun-Riviere, blue and green morocco labels, all edges gilt, a fine example.

8vo; title printed in red and black, rubricated throughout, extra title for Book of Psalms, light toning to leaves, prayer pasted to verso of front free endpaper; contemporary black morocco, elaborately gilt with central device to both covers, spine with 5 raised bands, elaborately gilt in compartments, light rubbing to extremities, marbled endpapers, overall a very good copy.

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.

First edition thus, fourth impression; 8vo; title printed in red and black, leaves slightly toned, light spotting to prelims; finely bound in full red morocco by Hatchards, double gilt fillet borders, central gilt device to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt in compartments, spine slightly sunned, covers slightly rubbed, top edge gilt, grey endpapers, overall a very good copy.

2 works in one vol., folio (27.8 x 19.5 cm); woodcut devices to titles of The Bible, some restoration to inner margin of general title, woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, double-page woodcut plan depicting the temple at Jerusalem, double-page woodcut map of the Holy Land; title of Psalmes within architectural woodcut border, musical notation in text; text in double-column, rubricated throughout, occasional closed tears to lower margin, scattered light foxing and soiling, 17th century ink family notes to endpapers; near-contemporary full black morocco gilt, fillet and roll borders, central device with ornamental thistles, spine with 5 raised bands, compartments ruled in gilt, neatly rebacked, retaining original backstrip, some light rubbing, all edges gilt; [6], 366, 84, [2], 115, [11]; [7], 35, 35-92, [2]pp.

Limited edition, one of 500 copies signed by the artist; 4to (320 x 270 mm); 12 tipped-in colour plates and black & white illustrations and decorations by Kay Nielsen, captioned tissue-guards, occasional light spotting, mostly contained and heavier to endpapers, not affecting text block or plates (different paper uses); publisher's gilt-stamped pictorial vellum, top edge gilt, others uncut (as published, two small marks to bottom edge of upper cover, which is also slightly bowed, otherwise exceptionally clean and bright.

Small 8vo (160 x 110); engraved vignette title-page by Stopford A. Brooke; near-cotemporary full green morocco, inlaid with red carnations to covers, gilt-panelled dentelles, lined in ivory moire, all edges gilt, small, light stain to lower, outer corner of front free lining, with offsetting to following page, otherwise a most handsome volume and internally fine.

6 volumes; 8vo; specially printed titles, extra-illustrated with circa 270 engraved views and portraits, some coloured; contemporary green half morocco gilt by M. Wood, spines decorated in the Art Nouveau style, top edge gilt, a fine set.

First edition, 2 vols, 8vo, xii, 8, 168; 169-416 pp., 6 folding engraved maps, contemporary tree calf gilt, a fine copy.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo; 24 plates (including frontispieces), numerous in-text illustrations and plans, text clean and bright; contemporary red morocco gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt, a fine set; [xv], 568; [xi], 563pp.