28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Dickens (Charles). Works. Library Edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1858-9. 22 volumes, 8vo (190 x 115 mm), contemporary red half morocco, richly gilt spines, marbled edges and endpapers, half-title and engraved additional vignette title-page to each volume, bookplates (Thomas S. Whitaker) - Grolier Society. Secret Court Memoirs [series-title on spines], London: for the Grolier Society, [1904]. 20 volumes, 8vo (222 x 146 mm), contemporary blue half morocco, richly gilt spines, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, each volume with frontispiece, title-page and plates on japon, bookplates (John Dawson Mayne, 1828-1917, jurist in India), spines sunned and rubbed - and others including Rowlandson, [The Tours of Dr. Syntax], 4th edition, 1823-8, 3 volumes, 12mo, contemporary half vellum, hand-coloured plates (not collated), and 9 James Nichol editions of English poets (Edinburgh, 1860, in original cloth) (qty: 60)
Sold for £500
Estimated at £200 - £300
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 28th Jul, 2021
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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