[Rarebooks] FS: Finely-Bound Sets

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1.  THEATRE DES AUTEURS DU SECOND ORDRE... Paris: Mame, Freres, 
1810-16. Stereotype D'Herhan edition. 40 volumes. 3/4 brown morocco 
with marbled boards, gilt designs on the spine compartments. End 
papers , edges and pastedowns are marbled. High quality paper. 16mo. 
Near fine. Recuil des Tragedies et Comedies Restees au Theatre 
Francais. Complete set. A few mild scrapes and a bit of rubbing to a 
few volumes, otherwise fine.  $725.00

2.  CAMPBELL, JOHN. LORD.  LIVES OF THE LORD CHANCELLORS AND KEEPERS 
OF THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TILL THE REIGN 
OF KING GEORGE IV, THE. London: John Murray, 1848-50. Third edition. 
7 volumes. Contemporary polished calf with gilt rules, raised bands 
with gilt compartmental designs, a red and a black leather label with 
gilt lettering. 8vo. Near fine. Previous owner's signature at ffep 
"Francis B. Crowninshield, 1851"  yachtsman and member of the 
prominent Salem MA family. Minor wear to leather extremities. 
Otherwise clean and all volumes are sound. Complete set.  $750.00

3.  KIPLING, RUDYARD, 1865-1936.  COLLECTION OF THE WORKS OF RUDYARD 
KIPLING, UNIFORMLY BOUND, A. London: Macmillan, 1890-1941. 28 
volumes. 3/4 navy blue morocco with lighter blue cloth-covered 
boards. Raised bands with gilt lettering in two compartments and gilt 
designs in the other four compartments. Gilt rules to boards and top 
edge gilt. Beautiful decorated end papers. Bound by Morrell of 
London. 8vo. Fine. All are in fine condition with the exception of a 
bit of foxing to some edges. The blue leather on spines has sunned to 
a uniform green blue. Uniform height but width sometimes varies. All 
but one published by Macmillan. The following are first editions: The 
Seven Seas 1896, Stalky and Co. 1899, Traffics and Discoveries 1904, 
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906, A Diversity of Creatures 1917, Letters of 
Travel 1920, A Book of Words 1928 and Limits and Renewals 1932. The 
rest are early but not first issue.  $4500.00

4.  LINGARD, JOHN.  HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE FIRST INVASION BY THE 
ROMANS TO THE ACCESSION OF WILLIAM AND MARY IN 1688, THE. London: 
Charles Dolman, 1849. Illustrated by an engraved portrait frontis. 
Fifth edition. 10 volumes. 3/4 brown morocco with marbled boards, 5 
raised bands, gilt floret designs in the spine compartments. End 
papers, edges and pastedowns are marbled. High quality paper. Near 
fine. Very handsome set, tight, clean, unfoxed and sturdy. Lingard 
was an English Roman Catholic priest, who was raised in poverty and 
suffering because of his family's religion. This work was the product 
of decades of study. He was determined that, although he expected 
severe criticism, no one could say that his facts were wrong. Years 
were devoted to the examination and comparison of original 
authorities, for Lingard's new method of history - practically 
unheard of till then - insisted on tracing every statement back to 
its original author. Of course the "History" was criticized, but the 
very sources of the criticism showed how successfully Lingard had 
attained his ideal of unbiased accuracy. "...he was to the end a 
centre of spiritual and intellectual activity, a living force which 
still employed its every energy for the one ambition it had always 
held - the advancement of Catholic, the conversion of Protestant 
England". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IX.  $925.00

5. MALORY, THOMAS. MORTE D'ARTHUR. London: David Nutt in the 
Strand, 1889-91. Edited by H. Oskar Sommer. Limited to 100 copies for 
sale, this copy unserialized and unsigned. Appears to be printer's 
copy. 4 volumes. Three-quarter morocco, gilt. Large 4to (10 x 12 
1/2"). Near fine. 3 volumes in 4, complete. Volume One contains the 
facsimile of Caxton's edition; Volume Two contains Sommer's notes, 
glossary and bibliography of the Morte d'Arthur; and Volume Three 
contains Andrew Lang's introductory essay as well as Sommer's notes 
on the Arthurian sources. Folding charts present in Volume Three. A 
fine set.In old English with modern English annotations. This 
important edition is a facsimile of the Caxton Edition but adds the 
very scholarly notes of Sommer. This copy has blindstamp on title 
pages, a library discard stamp in one volume and the library number 
stamped on copyright page but no other marks. Obviously it was not 
circulated. Lovely hand-made paper with no foxing. <A 
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$1250.00

6.  MILNE, A. A.  WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG, WINNIE THE POOH, NOW WE 
ARE SIX, THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER. London: Methuen & Co, 1928. 
Illustrated by Ernest H Shepard. 4 volumes. Original green crushed 
levant with gilt vignettes of characters from each book on upper 
boards. Spines are sunned, t. e. g. All deluxe editions.
1. When We Were Very Young. Sixteenth edition. Previous owner's 
signature. Minor rubbing to extremities.
2. Winnie the Pooh. Sixth edition. Previous owner's signature. 
Chipped at head of spine and minor edgewear.
3. Now We are Six. Fourth edition. Previous owner's signature.  Tiny 
chip to head of spine with no loss.
4. The House at Pooh Corner. First edition. Previous owner's 
signature. Aside from sunning to spine and further sunning to 1 inch 
at top of front board, fine.  $2400.00

7.  RAYNAL, ABBE (GUILLAUME THOMAS).  PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL 
HISTORY OF THE SETTLEMENTS AND TRADE OF THE EUROPEANS IN THE EAST AND 
WEST INDIES. London: T. Cadell, 1777. Translated by J. Justamond. 
Illustrated by frontispiece portrait and 4 fold-out maps in fine 
condition. Third edition. 5 volumes. Bound in recent 3/4 red calf 
retaining original tree calf boards with marbled end papers. Gilt 
rules divide spines into 5 compartments with gilt lettering. 8vo. 
[Index, ad leafs plus 474, 584, 474, 508, 568  pgs] Near fine. 
Complete. Bindings are strong and attractive. Pages and maps are 
clean and free of foxing. Very attractive set.  $785.00

8.  ROWLANDSON, T.  TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX. THREE VOLUMES, THE. 
London: R. Ackermann, 1819-1821. Illustrated by seventy-nine 
hand-colored engravings, all present. Complete. 3 volumes. Bound by 
Riviere in polished calf with gilt rules, gilt tooled dentelles, 
raised bands with gilt compartmental designs, red and black leather 
labels with gilt lettering; a.e.g and marbled end-papers. 8vo. 
[276/277/279 pgs] Very good. Volume I , in Search of the Picturesque, 
is the Eighth Edition with new plates; the front board is detached, 
the rear board is mildly stained. Volume II, in Search of 
Consolation, is the Third Edition, mildly stained at rear board. 
Volume III, in Search of a Wife, is the first edition, the front 
board is detached and one piece of the spine leather has detached but 
is present.  Some off-setting from plates in all three volumes, and 
minor wear to leather extremities.  Otherwise all three volumes are 
bright and sound. No foxing, amazingly clean pages. Previous owner's 
nineteenth century armorial  bookplate (publisher Edward Arnold) at 
each paste-down. Abbey, Life, 266 and 267.  $1370.00

9. SHAKESPEAR (SHAKESPEARE), WILLIAM. PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR 
(SHAKESPEARE) IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES. WITH THE CORRECTIONS AND 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF VARIOUS COMMENTATORS. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, NOTES BY 
SAMUEL JOHNSON AND GEORGE STEEVENS, THE. London: T. Longman et al, 
1793. Illustrated by facsimiles of Shakespeare's writing, a plate 
showing his home and a large fold-out plate showing the 12 
Morris-dancers (9" x 17"). 146 plates, 17 woodcuts, 4 tables. Fourth 
edition. 15 volumes. Tree calf with gilt rules and dentelles with 
gilt design bands, embossed compartmental designs; two burgundy title 
labels with gilt lettering. 8vo. Near fine. Complete. The first 
fourteen volumes are in wonderful condition and very handsome. They 
have a previous owner's (Bowes) eighteenth century armorial bookplate 
at each front paste-down. Volume VII has a small bit of bookworm 
damage at rear interior board, does not affect contents or exterior 
of board. Overall this set is stunning, clean with negligible foxing 
and the bindings are sound with only minor wear to the leather 
extremities. Volume XV, does not match the first fourteen volumes.(It 
is of the same edition). It is contemporary mottled calf with raised 
bands and compartmental designs at the spine and a black leather 
title label; the boards are detached, but present, the spine leather 
is dry and discolored. The contents of this volume are complete, 
clean and sound. Considered the best edition. The other 14 volumes 
are, of course, in fine condition. Jaggard 506 <A 
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10.  SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.  COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKSPERE 
(SHAKESPEARE), REVISED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS. WITH HISTORICAL 
AND ANALYTICAL INTRODUCTIONS TO EACH PLAY, ALSO NOTES EXPLANATORY AND 
CRITICAL, AND A LIFE OF THE POET. TWO VOLUMES OF THREE; HISTORIES AND 
TRAGEDIES, THE. London and New York: John Tallis and Company, 1860. 
Edited by J. O. Halliwell. Illustrated by portraits engraved on 
steel, from daguerrotypes of the greatest and most intellectual 
actors of the age, taken in the embodiment of the varied and 
life-like characters of our great national poet. 2 volumes. Red 
moroccan leather with gilt embossed rules and designs to all boards, 
four raised bands with gilt compartment designs and lettering at the 
spine; all edges gilt. 4to. [488/496 pgs] Near fine. Minor wear at 
extremities.  Half inch stain at upper edge of plates, some with 
minor foxing, does not affect text contents. Otherwise contents are 
clean and tight.  $250.00

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