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Auction No 415, Category: Literature

8 Lots (displaying 1 - 8)

Alain Rene le Sage "Les Avantures de Gil Blas de Santillane", Jean Nourse, London, 1749, 12mo, 4 vols, with 32 fine engraved plates;

Lot: 3

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Alain Rene le Sage Les Avantures de Gil Blas de Santillane, Jean Nourse, London, 1749, 12mo, 4 vols, with 32 fine engraved plates; full leather, very worn, two with boards detached; together with Smollett's translation of the same work, 1792, in 4 vols, complete with the engravings, front board of vol.1 detached; and various others, mostly antiquarian. Poor to VG (18)

"The Complete Works of Shakespeare", edited by Barry Cornwall; London Printing & Publishing Company [1864], 3 volumes, illustrated by Kenny Meadows

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £34
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The Complete Works of Shakespeare, edited by Barry Cornwall; London Printing & Publishing Company [1864], 3 volumes, illustrated by Kenny Meadows including 100 steel-engraved plates; half-leather bindings in poor condition; title pages foxed but generally clean internally, occasional minor spotting.

Samuel Neil (Ed.) "The Library Shakespeare", William Mackenzie, [1873], nine vols, quarto, gilt pictorial cloth, illustrated by George Cruikshank

Lot: 16

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £50
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Samuel Neil (Ed.) The Library Shakespeare, William Mackenzie, [1873], nine vols, quarto, gilt pictorial cloth, illustrated by George Cruikshank & others, 64 lithographed plates (32 in full colour), browning to text margins and half-titles, the plates with occasional finger marks in margin o/w VG; bindings sound but showing worn corners and fraying at top & foot of the spines. An attractive set. (9)

Walter Leaf , Andrew Lang & Ernest Myers "The Iliad of Homer" Macmillan, 1895, together with Leaf’s "A Companion to the Iliad",1892

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £30
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Walter Leaf , Andrew Lang & Ernest Myers The Iliad of Homer Macmillan, 1895, together with Leaf's A Companion to the Iliad, 1892, octavo, in matching half-leather, worn, lacking title labels; armorial bookplates of Norman H. Oldham with his inscription at top of title pages o/w fine internally. (2) 

William Harrison Ainsworth "The Good Old Times: The Story of the Manchester Rebels of ’45", Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873, 2 vols, sm.octavo,

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £30
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William Harrison Ainsworth The Good Old Times: The Story of the Manchester Rebels of '45, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873, 2 vols, sm.octavo, half-leather, gilt titles, some minor wear, fine internally. (2)

Tobias Smollett "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle", Routledge,1892, 2 vols, and four other Smollett novels by Routledge, in matching half- leather,

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £42
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Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Routledge, 1892, 2 vols, and four other Smollett novels by Routledge, in matching half-leather, gilt, some wear, some marginal browning to prelims, occasional finger marks, generally fine internally. (6)

"The Works of Henry Fielding Esq; with a Life of the Author", London, 1784, ten volume set, full polished calf, each with an engraved frontispiece;

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £115
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The Works of Henry Fielding Esq; with a Life of the Author, London, 1784, ten volume set, full polished calf, each with an engraved frontispiece; some wear, mainly to the spines, the gilt titles preserved, some minor browning but generally fine internally. Small private library bookplates of Halstead Place, Sevenoaks, to front pastedowns. (10)

J.R.R. Tolkien "The Hobbit", 1983, 3rd Edn., 4th impression, VG in a VG d/jkt; slight fading to spine (replicated in the jacket) o/w fine,

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Feb 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit, 1983, 3rd Edn., 4th impression, VG in a VG d/jkt; slight fading to spine (replicated in the jacket) o/w fine, no internal markings/inscriptions. The jacket shows slight wear, small chip at one corner, two tiny tears top of front flap.