English Literature

Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman & Hall, April - September 1870. First edition in original 6 parts, 8vo, publishers pictorial paper wrappers in beautiful unrepaired state, in a black morocco solander case; small bookseller's ticket on upper wrapper of first part. Purchased from James F. Drake, New York, with his cataloguing inserted. Eckel p. 96. — Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman & Hall, May 1864 - November 1865. First edition in original 20/19 parts, 8vo, publisher's pictorial wrappers, in two green morocco gilt slipcases; lightly soiled, one backstrip torn. Eckel p. 94. — Shaw, George Bernard. Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. London: Constable & Co., 1914. 8vo, half-title, publisher's pale green cloth, gilt-stamped title and imprint on spine, top edge gilt, publisher's printed wrapper; price sticker removed from spine leaving paper residue. — Halleck, Fitz Greene. Fanny: A Poem. New York: 1866. Large 8vo, printed on multi-color paper (brown, pink, blue, canary and bright yellow), uncut. [Bound with his:] Lines to the Recorder. New York: 1866. Printed on brown paper. First edition of the second title, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco and marbled boards; extremities worn. Bookplate of William Loring Andrews ("unique copy" according to a pencilled note on front flyleaf). Plus another, regular copy, with an engraved portrait of the author bound as frontispiece, and an autograph letter signed, 1 page, 8vo, Guilford, CT, 26 September 1865, to William Loring Andrews, 1 of 70 copies printed for Andrews according to publication data page, contemporary green morocco gilt; edges worn. — Lee Priory Press. Woodcuts and Verses. Kent: Printed at the private Press of Lee Priory by John Warwick, 1820. 4to, every page printed within an woodcut border, wood-engraved head- and tail-piece illustrations and initials accompanying poetry by Edward Quillinan, on india paper in sheets mounted on thicker paper, with 2 unsigned manuscript notes: "I regret that I have not time to get this volume bound ..." [With:] Edward Quillinan. The Retort Curious. Edinburgh: Robinson, 1821. 8vo, wrappers, illustrated bookplates of "Mary & Eliza". All in a red cloth drop-box. [With:] another copy of Woodcuts and Verses printed on china paper, in contemporary red straight-grain morocco, bookplate of Thomas P. Wood. — The Tales of the Genii: or, the Delightful Lessons of Horam the Son of Asmar. Translated from the Persian by Sir Charles Morell. London: James Wallis, 1805. 2 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece and plates, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt-tooled border in greek key design, spines and edges gilt, by Mayor & Huntly of Bath with their ticket; extremities rubbed. — Evelyn, John. Diary. London: Bickers & Son, 1879. 4 volumes in 8 parts, 8vo, title printed in red and black, engraved plates, extra-illustrated with 54 engraved portraits and views, later crushed morocco gilt, by Riviere & Son, gilt-stamped Evelyn armorial supralibros with motto "Durete", armorial bookplates of Alexander Hamilton Rice & Eleanor Elkins Rice. — Once a Week. An Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science, & Popular Information. London: Bradbury & Evans, 31 December 1859 - 28 December 1867. 12 odd volumes (volumes 2-5, 7-10, 12, 13, and new series 3-4), 8vo, green morocco gilt, edges gilt. — plus 14 others. In all, 24 works in 49 volumes.

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