Victorian Detective Fiction

First English edition, first impression; 8vo (185 x 125 mm); 16 plates by Sidney Paget, 4pp. advertisements; fine, modern full blue morocco, gilt-panelled and tooled, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt; a fine copy.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; frontispiece and 7 plates, tissue guard at frontispiece; publisher's dark blue cloth titles to upper board in white, device to upper board and titles to spine gilt. Minor repair to gutter of the frontispiece, a little shaken, one plate reinserted. A decent copy nonetheless.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; black-and-white illustrations by Sidney Paget, including frontispiece, scattered light foxing, otherwise unmarked internally, patterned endpapers; publisher's blue cloth, gilt and black text to upper board and spine, Strand Library device on upper board, all edges gilt, extremities rubbed, hinges cracked but holding, overall a very good copy; 279pp.

First edition; 8vo; frontispiece and 9 plates, 5 illustrations, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, blind-stamped 'presentation copy' on title, some foxing, tape burns to free endpapers, small contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper; publisher's brown pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, a very good copy, with facsimile dust-jacket.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; 16pp. advertisements, small paper flaw to margin of front free endpaper, small stain to tip of the final few leaves, small blindstamp to front free endpaper; publisher's yellow cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine in blue and black, a little rubbed and marked, spine slightly browned, small stain to lower fore-corner of lower cover, but a very good copy of a very pretty book.

First edition; small 8vo; some minor toning and thumb-marking, text-block trimmed; rebound in later red morocco-backed cloth.

3 vols, first edition; 8vo; splitting to a few endpapers, each front free endpaper with contemporary ownership inscription; publisher's green cloth blocked in black wit gilt letting to spines, some minor bumping, a few minor marks upper cover of vol.II, overall very good.

First edition; 8vo; frontispiece and illustrations by Gordon Browne, minor spotting to endpapers; publisher's pictorial cloth, a very good copy.

First edition; 8vo; frontispiece and vignette illustrations by Gordon Browne, stain to p.81, some splitting at gatherings, but overall internally very good; publisher's dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front decoratively stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, some minor rolling and rubbing to spine, light rubbing, overall very good.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; plates, endpapers slightly browned, some spotting; publisher's black cloth upper board and spine ruled in blind with inset colour illustration, titles and decoration to upper board and spine gilt, a very good copy.