Lot 170
  • 170

Folio Society.

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • A fine collection of 280 volumes, including five limited editions, comprising:
  • ink on paper
Joyce, J. Ulysses, 1998, number 913 of 1760 copies, full goatskin, folding box--Tolstoy, L. War and Peace, 2006, number 879 of 1750 copies, full goatskin, folding box--Life of St Edmund... [2004], number 377 of 1010 copies, full goatskin, together with volume of commentary, folding box--Cervantes, M. de. Don Quixote. 2005, number 74 of 1250 copies, full goatskin, folding box--Malory, Sir T. Le Morte Darthur. 2003, number 599 of 1020 copies, full goatskin, together with pamphlet, folding box--together with 273 others including: Austen, J. (8 vol.)--Beckett, S. (1 vol.)--Betjeman, J. (1 vol.)--Brontë Sisters (7 vol.)--Bunyan, J. (1 vol.)--Carlyle, T. (3 vol.)--Chekhov, A. (1 vol.)--Chesterton, G.K. (2 vol.)--Churchill, W.S. (10 vol.)--Coleridge, S.T. (1 vol.)--Darwin, C. (1 vol.)--Dickens, C. (13 vol.)--Domesday Book (3 vol.)--Donne, J. (1 vol.)--Galsworthy, J. (3 vol.)--Gaskell, E. (2 vol.)--Gibbon, E. (8 vol.)--Joyce, J. (1 vol.)--Keats, J. (1 vol.)--Kipling, R. (2 vol.)--Lang, A. (1 vol.)--Lawrence, T.E. (1 vol.)--Mansfield, K. (1 vol.)--Milton, J. (1 vol.)--Norwich, J.J. (4 vol.)--Priestley, J.B. (1 vol.)--Pym, B. (1 vol.)--Ruskin, J. (1 vol.)--Sackville West, V. 1--Shakespeare, W. (8 vol.)--Solzhenitsyn, A. (1 vol.)--Tolstoy, L. (3 vol.)--Trollope, A. (1 vol.)--Twain, M. (1 vol.)--White, T.H. (1 vol.)--Wilde, O. (1 vol.)--Williamson, H. (1 vol.)--Wordsworth, W. (1 vol.); 4to and 8vo, original bindings, slipcases (280)

Condition

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