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London: James Cochrane and Co., 1831. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [5], 2-422pp and Volume Two - [5], 2-448pp. Contemporary half morocco, smooth back, with title and running title inside an attractive frame to spine, marbled sides, edges, and marbled endpapers. Rubbed to extremities. Light foxing and off setting to frontispiece and title, very occasional and very light foxing to text, generally quite bright and clean. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden to front pastedown, small bookseller's label to reverse of front marbled endpaper. With eight engravings by George Cruikshank (as called for). In the 'Roscoe's Novelists Library' series. Cohn 704; Sadleir 3736a. First Thus. Hardback. Good. Illus. by Cruikshank, George. 12mo.

London: James Cochrane and Co., 1832. [5], viii-x, [1], 2-336pp. Contemporary half morocco, smooth back, with title and running title inside an attractive frame to spine, marbled sides, edges, and marbled endpapers. Rubbed to extremities. Light off setting from frontispiece on to title, very occasional and very light foxing to text, generally quite bright and clean. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden to front pastedown, small bookseller's label to reverse of front marbled endpaper. With four engravings by George Cruikshank (as called for). In the 'Roscoe's Novelists Library' series. Cohn 706; Sadleir 3736a. First Thus. Hardback. Good. Illus. by Cruikshank, George. 12mo.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Two volumes complete - Volume One - iv, 306pp, [2] and Volume Two - iv, 300pp. Original blindstamped cloth with central arabesque, original primrose endpapers, gilt to spines, bound by Bone and Son with their ticket to rear pastedowns. Volume one has been rebacked, with the slightly chipped original spine laid on, spines slightly faded, light staining to lower cover of volume one, volume two chipped to spine ends, corners slightly bumped, slightly rubbed. Internally lightly browned, but fairly clean. From the library of Michael Foot, with his name in pencil to ffep. Sadleir 1337, Wolff 3805 (this copy does not have the 32pp catalogue mentioned by Wolff) and Parrish, page 11 (not mentioning the catalogue), Harrison and Thompson, 'Bibliography of the Chartist Movement', page 137. Kingsley's second novel, though the first published in book form, a 'Christian Socialist' novel, which was heavily influenced by Mayhew and Carlyle, sympathetic to… Read More

New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1985. [8], iii, [3], 270pp, original cloth, author, title and publisher blocked in black to spine. Hint of dust staining to top edge, hint of foxing to fore and bottom edges, otherwise quite bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as Issued?). 8vo.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. xiii, [3], 229pp, [1], original buckram in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, otherwise quite bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London: Cochrane and Pickersgill, 1831. [5], vi-xxxvi, [1], 2-403pp, [1]. Contemporary half morocco, smooth back, with title and running title inside an attractive frame to spine, marbled sides, edges, and marbled endpapers. Rubbed to extremities. The portrait frontispiece and title are lightly foxed, occasional spots of foxing to text, but generally fairly bright and clean. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden to front pastedown, small bookseller's label to reverse of front marbled endpaper. With an engraved frontispiece of Smollett by Freeman and four engravings by George Cruikshank (as called for). In the 'Roscoe's Novelists Library' series. Cohn 702; Sadleir 3736a. First Thus. Hardback. Good. Illus. by Cruikshank, George. 12mo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv, [1], 246pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: James Cochrane and Co., 1831. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [5], viii-xxiii, [2], 2-454pp and Volume Two - [5], 2-448pp. Contemporary half morocco, smooth back, with title and running title inside an attractive frame to spine, marbled sides, edges, and marbled endpapers. Rubbed to extremities, very slightly chipped to head caps. Internally an occasional hint of foxing, especially to frontispiece, some light off setting from engravings, but generally quite bright and clean. Armorial bookplate of Sir Timothy Eden to front pastedowns. With a portrait frontispiece after Hogarth, and eight engravings by George Cruikshank (as called for). In the 'Roscoe's Novelists Library' series. Cohn 705; Sadleir 3736a. First Thus. Hardback. Good. Illus. by Cruikshank, George. 12mo.

London: James Cochrane and Co., 1832. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [4], ii, [1], 2-307pp and Volume Two - [5], 2-344pp. Contemporary half morocco, smooth back, with title and running title inside an attractive frame to spine, marbled sides, edges, and marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed to extremities, front board of volume one slightly sprung where first signature has been reglued, otherwise fairly bright and clean. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden Bart. to front pastedowns. With eight full page illustrations by George Cruikshank as called for. In the 'Roscoe's Novelists Library' series. Cohn 707; Sadleir 3736a. First Thus. Hardback. Good. Illus. by Cruikshank, George. 12mo.

London: Routledge, 1990. xiii, [1], 288pp, original buckram in DJ. DJ slightly rubbed, front flap creased. From the library of Michael Foot, with his pencil lines to margins throughout, and some pencil notes to rear endpaper, a review of the book from the TLS laid in, with a card from the author to Foot, thanking him for his review (in the Observer). With Signed Card. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941. xv, [1], 328pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, rubbed to extremities, slightly soiled generally, some light foxing, light scoring to lower panel. Covers lightly foxed to edges and spine, very light foxing to fore-edge of text block, internally quite bright and clean. First published in 1937, this is the reissue in 'The Oxford Bookshelf' series. First Thus. Hardback. Good+/Good. 8vo.

London: Cochrane and Pickersgill, 1831. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [5], ii-lxiv, [1], 2-327pp, [1] and Volume Two - [5], 2-324pp. Contemporary half morocco, smooth back, with title and running title inside an attractive frame to spine, marbled sides, edges, and marbled endpapers. Rubbed to extremities. Internally an occasional hint of foxing, offsetting from frontispiece on to title, some very light off setting from other illustrations, but generally quite bright and clean. Small bookseller's label to reverse of marbled front endpaper. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden to front pastedowns. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of Defoe engraved by Freeman, and sixteen illustrations by J.G. Strutt, "whose etchings of trees, published as 'Sylva Britannica' and 'Deliciae Sylvarum', had recently bought him a great reputation" (Sadleir II, page 109). In the 'Roscoe's Novelists Library' series, the only one of the series not illustrated by Cruikshank. Sadleir 3736a. First Thus. Hardback.… Read More

London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1929. [4], 496pp, [8], original blue cloth in DJ. DJ spine lightly browned and dulled, chipped to head of spine, top edge of upper panel and corners with some loss, several small nicks and tears. Internally lightly browned but generally clean. Large gift inscription to ffep. First published in six parts, here published together. First Thus. Hardback. Good+/Fair. 8vo.

Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. xi, [1], 158pp, original boards in DJ. DJ spine very slightly faded, otherwise quite bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Amsterdam: Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1987. 232pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ spine faded, hint of foxing to edges of text block, but generally quite bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 4to.

Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000. xii, [2], 249pp, [1], original printed boards. Externally very good indeed, internally bright with pencilled notes to margins throughout by Dr Elspeth Kennedy (the noted medievalist). First Edition. Hardback. Good+/No Jacket (as Issued). 8vo.

London: Richard Bentley, 1885. [9], x-xi, [6], 2-350pp, [2], slightly later, full straight grain morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, title lettered direct to second panel, with illustrator to third, each with volute corner pieces, remaining panels with central floral spray, volute and flower head corner pieces and small roundels and stars, date to foot, all in gilt, covers with gilt triple border, double line gilt roll to edges, inner edges with varying gilt rolls, a.e.g., plain endpapers. Outer joints slightly chipped with small amounts of surface loss, joints still holding well, slightly rubbed to extremities. Half-title nearly detached and now sitting slightly proud, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. With the thirty-three Cruikshank steel engravings called for, but also with what an old pencil note calls "a set of Cruikshanks's original impressions" bound in opposite each book illustration. These are presumably originals from 'Bentley's Miscellany',… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1848. [2], 54pp, rebound in full calf by Zaehnsdorf, double title / author labels to spine, gilt border to covers, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Spine slightly dulled, rubbed to extremities. Internally text slightly browned, plates quite bright and clean. Previous owners bookplate to front pastedown. Complete with sixteen colour plates by Thackeray. Thackeray's second Christmas book, Van Duzer 157. First Edition. Full Calf. Good. Illus. by Thackeray, W.M.. 12mo.

Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1985. ix, [1], 125pp, [1], original cloth in DJ. Minor wear, generally quite bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. xii, [2], 242pp, original quarter cloth and boards in DJ. Endpapers slightly browned, occasional hint of foxing, but generally bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.