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Books

Finely bound large paper edition of Lamb's best-known work.<ul><li>Charles Lamb (English).</li><li>Mary Lamb (English).</li><li>Illustrations by Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>London &amp; New York:&nbsp;J.M. Dent &amp; Co. and E.P. Dutton &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1909.</li><li>Illustrated with mounted color plates.</li><li>Limited edition of 750 copies printed and signed by the artist, this being number 388.</li><li>Bound by Bayntun in full red morocco with the covers displaying a gilt-tooled border, including floral corner flourishes, spine displays raised bands, intricate panel details and label lettering, all gilt-tooled, top edge is gilded with floral gilt-tooled dentelles and marbled endpapers.</li><li>Housed in a linen slipcase.</li></ul>

Tales From Shakespeare

Limited-edition copy of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with Rackham's illustrations.<ul><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;William Heinemann,&nbsp;1908.</li><li>Limited edition of 1,000 copies, numbered and signed by Rackham, this being number 307.</li><li>Illustrated with color tipped-in plates.</li><li>Bound by Chelsea Bindery in full blue morocco with the cover displaying borders, titles and a central depiction of a scene with a tree, all gilt-tooled; and the top edge is gilded with gilt-tooled inner dentelles and marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Limited-edition copy of Shakespeare's As You Like It with Hugh Thomson's illustrations.<ul><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Hugh Thomson (Irish).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Hodder &amp; Stoughton, circa 1910.&nbsp;</li><li>Illustrated with mounted tipped-in tissue color plates.</li><li>Limited edition of 500 copies, this being number 5.</li><li>Bound by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe in full red Morocco with the cover displaying a scene with a peacock and two women on a balcony in multicolored inlay with floral gilt-tooled borders, the spines display raised bands, bordering, floral panel details and label lettering, all gilt-tooled, all of the edges are gilded with gilt-tooled turn-ins, watered silk endpapers and doublures.</li><li>Housed in a linen slipcase.</li></ul>

As You Like It

Finely bound first edition set of Shakespeare's complete plays.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 8.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Edited by Samuel Johnson (English).</li><li>London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, C. Corbet, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Hawes, Clark and Collins, W. Johnston, T. Caslon. T. Lownds, and the executors of B. Dodd,&nbsp;London,&nbsp;1765.</li><li>Bound at Seagull Bindery in full modern brown calf, raised bands with blind stamped floral motif, red and black morocco gilt lettered spines.</li></ul>

Shakespeare's Plays

First edition, second Sherwood issue of Polidori's&nbsp;The Vampyre&nbsp;in original wrappers.<ul><li>John William Polidori (English).</li><li>The Vampyre; A Tale.</li><li>London: for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819.</li><li>xxv, [i], (blank), [27]-84 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in the original gray paper wrappers, entirely uncut as issued.</li><li>Housed in a maroon cloth clamshell slipcase, gilt lettered black morocco spine label.</li></ul>

The Vampyre

Finely bound sixth-edition copy of Othello.<ul><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Othello, The Moor of Venice. A Tragedy.</li><li>London: for Richard Bentley, 1695.</li><li>(ii)76 pages.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco, vertical lettered spine, covers ruled in gilt and gilt dentelles.</li></ul>

Othello

Finely bound set of the Brontë sisters' novels.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6.</li><li>Charlotte Brontë (English).</li><li>Anne Brontë (English).</li><li>Emily Brontë (English).</li><li>Illustrated Edmund Dulac (French-British).</li><li>London: J. M. Dent &amp; Sons, Ltd., 1922.</li><li>Bound by Bayntun in contemporary half green polished calf, ribbed gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered maroon spine labels, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut as issued.</li></ul>

Brontës' Novels

First edition, first issue of Dickens' A Christmas Carol.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Leech (English) and W. J. Linton (English-American).</li><li>A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, 1843.</li><li>4 hand-colored plates and 4 black-and-white illustrations.</li><li>Bound by Bayntum in full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, front cover with gilt portrait of Dickens, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt, original cloth covers, spine and green endpapers bound in.</li></ul>

A Christmas Carol

Leaf from the fourth folio of The Comedy of Errors.<ul><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster and R. Bentley, 1685.</li><li>Pages 85 and 86.</li><li>Single leaf of paper.</li></ul>

The Comedy of Errors

Leaf from the fourth folio of the London Prodigal.<ul><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster and R. Bentley, 1685.</li><li>Pages 223 and 224.</li><li>Single leaf of paper.</li></ul>

The London Prodigal

Finely bound copy of Shakespeare's works.<ul><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>London: Oxford University Press, 1964.</li><li>Bound in fine full brown calf, ribbed gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered black morocco spine label, covers ruled and paneled in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, housed in a black open-ended slipcase.</li></ul>

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>A group of first editions by Thackeray.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>William Makepeace Thackeray (English).</li></ul> The History of Pendennis.London: Bradbury &amp; Evans, 1848-1850.&nbsp;Illustrated with steel and wood engraved plates throughout by the author.First edition in original parts, 24 parts in 23.Bound in original illustrated stitch-bound yellow wrappers.Housed in custom drop-back case. The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family.2 volumes.Richard Doyle (American).London: Bradbury and Evans, 1855.First edition, first printing.Early bookseller’s manuscript description laid into vol. 1.Bound in original blue cloth, covers and spines elaborately stamped in blind, spines gilt-lettered, and yellow endpapers.Housed in custom drop-back case. The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century.2 volumes.London: Bradbury &amp; Evans, 1858.&nbsp;Illustrated throughout with wood and steel engravings.Bound in original blue cloth, covers and spines elaborately stamped in blind, spines gilt-lettered and yellow endpapers.Housed in custom drop-back case. The Adventures of Philip On His Way Through the World; Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By.3 volumes.London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1865.&nbsp;Bound original brown pebble-textured cloth, covers elaborately ruled and stamped in blind, spines lettered and ruled with yellow endpapers.&nbsp;Housed in custom drop-back box.

Collection of Fiction including The History of Pendennis and The Newcomes

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>A collection of works by Charles Dickens.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Group lots not subject to returns.</li></ul> The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.New York: James Turney, [1838].2 parts (of 26).Octavo.4 engraved plates.Bound in original blue-green pictorial wrappers. Sketches by Boz.Illustrated by George Cruikshank (English).London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.Octavo.Etched frontispiece and title, 38 plates.First edition.Bound in nineteenth-century brown calf, morocco lettering to second and third with green endpapers. Barnaby Rudge.Illustrated by Phiz [Hablot K. Browne] (English) and George Cattermole (English).London: Chapman and Hall, 1841.Large octavo.First edition in this form.Bound in original brown cloth stamped in blind with gilt title, marbled endpapers and edges.Housed in a custom slipcase. Barnaby Rudge.Illustrated by Phiz [Hablot K. Browne] (English) and George Cattermole (English).Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842 [1841].Large octavo.Frontispiece and 14 engravingsFirst American edition - The Doheny Copy.Bound in original brown cloth stamped in blind with gilt title and vignette illustration.Housed in a custom slipcase. The Old Curiosity Shop.Illustrated by Phiz [Hablot K. Browne] (English).London: Chapman and Hall, 1841.Large octavo.First separate issue, first state.Bound in brown cloth stamped in blind, gilt-lettered spine, marbled endpapers and edges. The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress.Illustrated by George Cattermole (English).London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846.Octavo.Half-title and 24 etched plates.New Edition, Revised and Corrected.Bound in original brown cloth with gilt garland on upper cover and in blind on lower, covers pictorally gilt with pale yellow endpapers.Housed in a custom slipcase. Our Mutual Friend.2 volumes. Illustrated by Marcus Stone (English).London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Octavo.Half-titles, frontispieces and 40 wood-engraved illustrations.First edition in book form.Bound in original purple cloth, covers stamped in blind with thick arch-frames, gilt-lettered spine and pale yellow endpapers.Housed in a custom slipcase.

Collection of Fiction including Oliver Twist and Sketches by Boz

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>Group of first editions of the work of Rudyard Kipling.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6.</li><li>Rudyard Kipling (English).</li></ul> Departmental Ditties. Barrack Room Ballads and Other Verses.New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1890.Octavo.First American edition.Bound in original burgundy cloth, bevel boards, decorative gilt titles on upper cover and top edge gilt. Soldier Tales.Illustrated by A.S. Hartrick (Scottish).London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896.Octavo.Frontispiece and 21 black-and-white illustrated plates.Bound in original blue cloth, upper cover pictorially gilt with military band and decorative ruling, spine pictorially gilt and lettered, all edges gilt and black coated endpapers.House in a custom slipcase. Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks.Illustrated by I.W. Taber (American).London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897.Octavo.Frontispiece with 22 black-and-white illustrated plates.First edition in book form, first impression.Bound in original blue cloth, upper cover and spine gilt-lettered and pictorially gilt with men in boat, all edges gilt, black endpapers.House in custom clamshell case. Stalky &amp; Co.London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899.Octavo.Newspaper clippings tipped into second page of ads of two Kipling poems from serial publications dated 1899.Bound in original red buckram with gilt signet stamped on upper, spine gilt-lettered and top edge gilt. The Years Between. Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1919.Octavo.Later issue without ads at rear.Bound in red buckram, spine gilt-lettered in pictorial dust jacket. Limits and Renewals.London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932.Octavo.Bound in original red buckram with gilt signet stamped on upper cover, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt in brown dust jacket with black titles on front and spine.

Collection of Fiction including the Years Between and Captains Courageous

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>Group of first editions by Tennyson.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Alfred Tennyson (English).</li><li>Group lots are not subject to return.</li></ul> In Memoriam. London: Edward Moxon, 1850.Octavo.First edition, first issue.Bound in original brown cloth, covers decoratively stamped in blind, spine gilt lettered and yellow endpapers.Housed in custom clamshell case. Enoch Arden, Etc.London: Edward Moxon &amp; Co., 1865.Octavo.Bound in original green cloth, covers stamped in blind and spine gilt-lettered. Demeter and Other Poems.London: Macmillan and Co., 1889.Octavo.Bound in original green textured cloth, spine gilt-lettered.

In Memoriam, Enoch Arden, Etc., and Demeter and Other Poems

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>Group of first editions by Robert Louis Stevenson.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 8.</li><li>Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish).</li><li>Group lots are not subject to return.</li></ul> New Arabian Nights.2 volumes.London: Chatto &amp; Windus, 1882.Octavo.First UK edition.Bound in original green cloth, upper covers ornately lettered and stamped in black and brown, lower covers with flora device stamped in brown, spines gilt-lettered and ornately stamped in black and brown, floral pattered endpapers.&nbsp;Housed in custom clamshell case. Memories &amp; Portraits. London: Chatto and Windus, 1887.Octavo.First UK edition.Bound in original black cloth, beveled boards, spine gilt-lettered and top edge gilt. The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. London: Chatto &amp; Windus, 1887.Octavo.First UK edition.Bound in original blue cloth, upper cover and spine decoratively stamped in silver and black, spine gilt-lettered, floral endpapers.House in custom slipcase. The Wrong Box.New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1889. Octavo.First American edition.Bound in original blue cloth with paper labels to upper cover printed in blue and black, spine gilt-lettered. The Wrecker. London: Cassell &amp; Company Limited, 1892.Illustrated by William Hole (Scottish) and W.L. Metcalf (American).Octavo.First UK edition.Bound in original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, bookseller's ticket to upper pastedown; some foxing to endpapers. Catriona. A Sequel to “Kidnapped” Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad. London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1893. Octavo.First UK edition.Bound in original navy cloth boards, spine gilt-lettered with floral endpapers.Housed in custom clamshell case. Island Nights’ Entertainments.Illustrations by Gordon Browne (English) and W. Hatherell (English).London: Cassell &amp; Company Limited, 1893.First UK edition, first impression. St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England. London: William Heinemann, 1898. First UK edition.Bound in oiginal black cloth, cover and spine gilt-lettered.

Collection of Fiction including New Arabian Nights and the Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>A group of first editions by T. S. Eliot.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>T. S. Eliot (English).</li><li>Group lots are not subject to return.</li></ul> The Waste Land. [in] The Dial Vol. LXXIII, No. 5.New York: The Dial Publishing Company, 1922.Quarto.First American appearance of The Waste Land on page 473.Bound in brown wrappers with title on upper spine and advertisements to verso.Housed in a custom brown morocco backed clamshell case. Ash Wednesday.London: Faber &amp; Faber, 1930.Octavo.Bound in original terracotta cloth with gilt title to spine and top edge gilt with green dust jacket. The Cocktail Party.London: Faber &amp; Faber, 1950.&nbsp;Octavo.First edition, state with the misprint "here" for "her" page 29.Bound in emerald boards with gilt titles along spine.

The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, and The Cocktail Party

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection </a>A group of first editions about Charles Dickens.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Group lots not subject to return.</li></ul> A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens, Compiled and Alphabetically Arranged and Inscribed by F. G. de Fontaine.F. G. de Fontaine (American).New York: E.J. Hale &amp; Son, 1873. Quarto.Bound in original full dark green morocco, beveled boards, decoratively stamped in blind, ornately lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. A Week’s Tramp in Dickens-Land. William R. Hughes (British).Illustrated by F.G. Kitton (British).London: Chapman &amp; Hall, 1891. Large octavo.Bound original dark green cloth, beveled boards, covers ruled in blind, upper cover and spine pictorially gilt, spine gilt-lettered, green coated endpapers. Life of Charles Dickens.R. Shelton Mackenzie (Irish).&nbsp;Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson &amp; Brothers, 1870. Octavo.Frontispiece portrait and facsimile signature.Bound in original blue cloth, covers ruled in blind, upper cover and spine gilt-lettered, spine pictorially gilt, brown coated endpapers.

Life of Charles Dickens, A Weeks Tramp in Dickens Land, and Encyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>Set of four first-edition books by J.M. Barrie.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 7.</li><li>J.M. Barrie (Scottish).</li><li>Group lots are not subject to return.</li></ul> When a Man's Single: A Tale of Literary Life.London: Hoddern and Stoughton, 1888.First edition.Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with top edge gilt and dark green endpapers. The Little Minister.3 volumes.London: Cassell &amp; Company, Limited, 1891.Octavo.First edition.Unopened.The Bradley Martin - Mildred Green copy.Bound in publisher's light brown cloth with gilt lettered spines and pictorial endpapers.Housed in a custom clamshell case. Better Dead.London: Swan Sonnenschein &amp; Co., 1891.Color frontispiece.First hardcover edition.Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt letters to spine and dark blue coated endpapers. The Little White Bird.London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1902.First edition.Marks the first appearance of Peter Pan character.Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt letters to spine and top edge gilt. The Admiral Crichton.Illustrated by Hugh Thomson (Irish).London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914.Small folio.Tipped in color plates.Bound in original red cloth boards with decorated gilt ornamental design.

Collection of Fiction including  When a Man's Single: A Tale of Literary Life and The Little Minister

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>A collection of novels by Charles Dickens.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 10.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Group lots are not subject to return.</li></ul> Sunday Under Three Heads As It Is; As Sabbath Bills Would Make It; As ItMight be Made.Timothy Sparks [Charles Dickens] (English).Illustrations after Phiz [Hablot K. Browne] (English).London: Chapman And Hall, 1836.Octavo.First edition.Bound in original gray wrappers with advertisement for "Pickwick and the Library of Fiction on lower wrapper.Housed in a custom slipcase and folding chemise. The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman.Illustrated by George Cruikshank (English).London: Charles Tilt, 1839.Sextodecimo.11 etched plates and 1 engraved plate of music.First edition.First issue with "wine" for "vine" on page 13.Bound in original green pictorial cloth with gilt illustration.Housed in green clamshell. Sketches of Young Couples.Illustrated by Phiz [Hablot K. Browne] (English).London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.5 engraved plates and frontispiece.First edition.Bound in original pictorial blue-green paper boards with yellow coated endpapers. Evenings of a Working Man. Being the Occupation of his Scanty Leisure.London: T.C. Newby, 1844.Octavo.First edition.Bound in publisher's original light brown cloth with floral design in blind, gilt letters, all edges gilt and pale yellow endpapers in stiff green cloth wrappers. The Story of Little Dombey.London: Bradbury &amp; Evans, 1858.Sextodecimo.First edition, one of the Reading Editions.Bound in original green wrappers with black pictorial decorations. Hunted Down. With Some Account of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, The Poisoner; [bound with] A Wonderful Ghost Story. Being Mr. H’s Own Narrative. London: John Camden Hotten, 1870.London: Griffith &amp; Farran, 1882.Duodecimo.Illustrated title page with woodcut of "The Fatal House, No. 12, Conduit Street".First English Edition.Volume includes three letters of correspondence between Thomas Heaphy and Charles Dickens.Bound in green half calf backed textural morocco with gilt stamping along spine, marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Is She His Wife? Or, Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in One Act.Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877.Sextodecimo.First edition of the first American reprint.Bound in original green cloth with black and gilt decoration. The Mudfog Papers, etc...Now First Collected. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1880.Octavo.First collected edition.Bound in original red cloth with black and gilt decoration and black endpapers. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi.2 volumes.Edited by "Boz" (English).Illustrated by George Cruikshank (English).London: Richard Bentley, 1838.Bound in publisher's original pink floral patterned cloth.

Collection of Fiction including The Story of Little Dombey and The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman

<a href=" https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>First book edition bound from the weekly parts of Master Humphrey's Clock.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrations by George Cattermole (English) and Phiz [Hablot K. Browne] (English).</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.</li><li>Large octavos.</li><li>Bound in original publisher's dark brown bold-ribbed cloth with stamped gold clock, gilt spines, marbled endpapers and marbled edges.</li><li>Housed in a custom slipcase.</li></ul>

Master Humphrey's Clock

<a href=" https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>First issue, first edition book printing of Dickens' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrations by Phiz [Hablot K. Browne] (English).</li><li>Frontispiece portrait by Daniel Maclise (Irish).</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>39 illustrated plates of earlier issue and Chapman and Hall imprint present for first four illustrations.</li><li>Bound in original dark olive green fine-diaper cloth with blind-stamped border to covers, spine with gilt letters and yellow endpapers.</li><li>Housed in a custom clamshell case.</li></ul>

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

<a href=" https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>First-edition set of Dickens'&nbsp;Our Mutual Friend&nbsp;in the monthly parts.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 19.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrations by Marcus Stone (English).</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-1865.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>40 wood engravings.</li><li>20 parts in 19.</li><li>Bound in original green printed wrappers.</li><li>Housed in a custom drop-back box.</li></ul>

Our Mutual Friend

<a href=" https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>First-edition set of Dickens'&nbsp;The Mystery of Edward Drood&nbsp;in the original 6 parts.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 6.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrations after Luke Fildes (English).</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>12 engraved plates.</li><li>Includes advertisements and Chapman and Hall catalogue in part 5.</li><li>Bound in original green printed wrappers.</li><li>Housed in a custom clamshell case.</li></ul>

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection </a>First edition printing of Dickens' A Child's History of England.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Francis W. Topham (English).</li><li>London: Bradbury and Evans, 1852-1854.</li><li>Leaf of advertisements to the end of each volume all in first issue state.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in original red-brown ribbed cloth with leaf-flower border, central gilt illustration and marbled endpapers and edges.</li><li>Housed in custom burgundy morocco and marble paper board clamshell case.</li></ul> A Child's History of England was initially serialized in Dickens' Household Words between 25th January 1851 and 10th December 1853. Each of the three volumes in the book edition was published separately, with the overall number of chapters reducing down from 45 to 37. Each was published around Christmas (in 1851, 1852 and 1853), but postdated the following year.

A Child's History of England

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>First edition book printing of Dickens' Dombey and Son. <ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrations after Phiz [Hablot K. Browne] (English).</li><li>London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.</li><li>8-line errata leaf with 12-line errata slip tipped-in and 6 pages of advertisements in rear.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>38 illustrated plates.</li><li>Bound in original olive green cloth with gilt designs to covers and yellow endpapers.</li><li>Housed in a custom green morocco and marbled paper boards.</li></ul>

Dombey and Son

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>First edition book printing of Dickens' Hard Times.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in original green cloth with cover and spine stamped in blind with gilt lettering and cream endpapers.</li><li>Housed in a custom brown morocco backed slipcase and folding chemise.</li></ul>

Hard Times

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/the-workman-collection " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Workman Collection</a>First edition of Hardy's collection of short stories, Wessex Tales.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Thomas Hardy (English).</li><li>Wessex Tales. Strange, Lively, and Commonplace.</li><li>London: Macmillan and Co., 1888.</li><li>Half-titles and 4 pages of publisher's advertisements to volume 2.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Limited to 634 bound copies.</li><li>Bound in original green cloth, ruled in light green with gilt-letters to spines.</li><li>Housed in a custom green morocco and cloth-covered board clamshell.</li></ul>

Wessex Tales

Cary Grant's copy of Hamlet.<ul><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Engravings by Eric Gill (English).</li><li>[High Wycombe]:&nbsp;[Limited Editions Club],&nbsp;[1933].&nbsp;</li><li>Limited edition of 1,500, this being number 461.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>[ix], [5], 149 pages, [3].</li><li>Signed by Eric Gill on the colophon.</li><li>Bookplate of Cary Grant on the front pastedown.</li><li>Bound in publisher's full blind-stamped pigskin.</li></ul>

Hamlet

Finely bound limited-edition set of the Connoisseurs' Edition of the Extra Illustrated Henley Shakespeare.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 20.</li><li>William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Edited by W.E. Henley (English).</li><li>Illustrated by H.C. Green (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;R.G. Newbegin,&nbsp;1903.&nbsp;</li><li>Folios.</li><li>Letter A of 26 lettered copies</li><li>Extra-illustrated with hand-painted watercolors and engraved hand-colored plates.</li><li>Bound in unsigned full green morocco with spines paneled with gilt lettering and floral gilt motif, marbled endpapers, turn-ins with double gilt rules and floral motif in corners with gilt borders on covers and red cross onlay at the center of the board with gilt floral designs.</li></ul> Extra-illustrated with original pen, ink and watercolors by H.C. Green and others, watercolor and gilt illumination in the Art Nouveau style throughout, with both hand-colored and black and white engravings. "Illustrated with hand-colored prints and original watercolors depicting characters and scenes from the works, and with stenciled Art Nouveau watercolor embellishments (many heightened in gold and silver) painted directly on leaves of text." —Folger.

The Works of Shakespeare

Limited-edition set of The Works of Thackeray.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 52.</li><li>William Makepeace Thackeray (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Smith, Elder &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1878.</li><li>Limited edition of 1,000 copies, this being number 443.</li><li>Bound in full tan calf with the covers displaying a ruled border and floral corner details, top edges gilt with gilt-tooled turn-ins and marbled endpapers.&nbsp;</li></ul>

The Works of Thackeray

First edition early issue of Stevenson's Treasure Island.<ul><li>Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Cassell &amp; Company, Limited,&nbsp;1883.</li><li>292, [8] pages.</li><li>Color cartographic frontispiece with tissue guard.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original sage green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, black coated endpapers and uncut edges.</li><li>Housed in custom green cloth clamshell with gilt spine lettering.</li></ul>

Treasure Island

Seventh printing of Joyce's Ulysses.<ul><li>James Joyce (Irish).</li><li>Paris:&nbsp;Shakespeare and Company,&nbsp;1925.</li><li>Bound in original pale blue printed wrappers.</li><li>Housed in a custom black quarter leather over black cloth archival clamshell box with gilt title to spine.</li></ul>

Ulysses

First-edition copy of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake.<ul><li>Charles Cotton (English).</li><li>London: for Joanna Brome, 1681.</li><li>[ii] 86 pages.</li><li>Bound in contemporary full speckled calf, covers ruled in blind.</li></ul>

The Wonders of the Peake

First edition third printing of Polidori's The Vampyre owned by Michael Sadleir.<ul><li>John William Polidori (English).</li><li>London: for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819.</li><li>[25]-84 pages with the half title.</li><li>Preface set in 23 lines and misprint "lmost" for "almost," on last line of page 36.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Paper book label of the collector and bibliographer Michael Sadleir.</li><li>In the original stitching, all edges uncut as issued, with the original brown/gray paper wrappers.</li><li>Housed in a green cloth chemise in an open-ended slipcase with gilt lettered spine.&nbsp;</li></ul>

First edition of Shelley's second novel Valperga.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3.</li><li>Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (English).</li><li>Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca.</li><li>London: for G. &amp; W. B. Whittaker, 1823.</li><li>Bound in half tan speckled calf, gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered black morocco spine labels, marbled edges.</li></ul>

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