[English Literature]

i) Jonson, Ben. The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson and Beaumont and Fletcher. Stockdale, 1811, 4 volumes, portrait frontispieces in 3 volumes, half calf by Asprey, top edge gilt; ii) de Cervantes Saavedra, Michael. The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Hurst, Robinson and Co., 1820, 4 volumes, engraved plates, green morocco gilt, all edges gilt; iii) Rawlinson, George. The History of Herodotus. Murray, 1858-1860, 4 volumes, 5 folding maps, half vellum, all edges marbled; iv) Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair...The Virginians...The Newcomes. Smith, Elder and Co., 1869, 6 volumes, later half red morocco; v) Scott, Walter. Waverley, or 'tis sixty years since. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1871, 25 volumes, "centenary edition", frontispieces and plates, full green calf, spine gilt in compartments, all edges marbled; vi) Shakespeare, William. Shakspere's Works. Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1883-1886, 12 volumes, mixed edition, publisher's full vellum, with a copy of The Sonnets of William Shakspere, 1882, publisher's full vellum, each volume in black slipcase; vii) Shakespeare, William. The Poems of Shakespeare. Methuen, 1898, half purple morocco; viii) Barrie, J.M. The Plays of J.M Barrie...The Works of J.M. Barrie. Hodder and Stoughton / Cassell and Company, c.1923-1930, 18 works in 9 volumes, half blue morocco, top edge gilt; ix) Maugham, W. Somerset. The Razor's Edge. Heinemann, 1944, first British edition, full black morocco by Asprey, all edges gilt; all 8vo and small 8vo, some rubbing to a few volumes, one spine discoloured, ink ownership inscription in one volume (67)

ix) Stott A63c

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