[Historical Novels]

[Le Fanu, J.S.] The Cock and Anchor, being a chronicle of old Dublin city. Dublin: William Curry…, 1845, 8vo (198 x 120mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, half-titles, 32pp. publisher’s catalogue dated October 1845 at end of volume one [not noted by Sadleir and Wolff] and 2pp. publisher’s adverts at end of volume three, original cloth-backed boards with paper lettering pieces, [Sadleir 1373; Wolff 4010], repairs to hinges--Bramley-Moore, W. The Six Sisters of the Valleys: an historical romance. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864, 8vo (195 x 120mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, half-titles, frontispieces and 11 other plates after T.H. Nicholson, original blue cloth lettered in gilt, [not in Sadleir; Wolff 777], ownership signatures, holes within preliminaries of volume two, adhesive damage to frontispiece of volume two--Dasent, G.W. The Vikings of the Baltic: a tale of the North in the tenth century. London: Chapman and Hall, 1875, 8vo (186 x 120mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, [not in Sadleir; Wolff 1726], some professional repairs to hinges--Gilliat, E. Asylum Christi: a story of the Draggonades. London: Sampson Low et al., 1877, 8vo (187 x 120mm.), 3 volumes, first edition of the author’s first book, half-titles, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and with publisher’s monogram in blind on covers, [not in Sadleir; Wolff 2508], splitting to hinges--Weyman, S. A Gentleman of France: being the memoirs of Gaston de Bonne Sieur de Marsac. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893, 8vo (190 x 125mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, 24pp. publisher’s catalogue at end of volume one, original red-brown cloth lettered in black, collector’s chemises and green morocco-backed slipcases, [Sadleir 3307; Wolff 7146], booklabels, final leaf of catalogue torn with loss, slipcases worn; some spotting and browning, extremities occasionally slightly bumped (15)

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