Victorian Fiction.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus... revised, corrected and illustrated with a new introduction by the author. Richard Bentley, 1849, engraved frontispiece, original blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, collector's cloth box, lacks the series half-title, frontispiece damp-stained, upper hinge weak, spine slightly rubbed at head and foot--Meredith, George. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. Chapman and Hall, 1859, first edition, 3 volumes, original grey-green cloth (Carter's variant A), covers blocked in blind with decorative border and elaborate centrepiece, spines decorated in blind and lettered in gilt, uncut, collector's morocco slipcase and calf-backed folding box, [Buxton Forman 5; Collie IIIa; Sadleir 1701; Carter Binding Variants pp.138-9], a few underlinings and markings in ink and pencil, reader's ink annotations on rear free endpaper of volume 1, light spotting to a few gatherings and to titles of volume 2 and 3, slight wear to extremities, hinges beginning to split--Thackeray, W.M. The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable family. Bradbury and Evans, 1854, first edition, 2 volumes, illustrations by the author, original cloth stamped in blind, some spotting, bindings slightly soiled, spines bumped; The Virginians. Bradbury and Evans, 1858, first edition, 2 volumes, illustrations by the author, original cloth stamped in blind, preliminaries and some plates spotted, bindings slightly soiled, spines bumped--Blackmore, R.D. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1869, first edition, 3 volumes, nineteenth-century three-quarter morocco, spines gilt, gilt edges, slipcase, [Sadleir 227], without publisher’s catalogue at end of volume 3, some minor spotting; Tales from the Telling-House. Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1896, first edition thus, pictorial title printed in red and black, original decorative cloth gilt, [Sadleir 233]--all 8vo, some spotting (12)