Richardson, Samuel, The Novels With A Life Of The Author

15 Volumes. James Boswell, Esq. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Bound in full green morocco with a gilt border. Raised band spine gilt with panels dis...

10 volumes. Henry Fielding, The Novels of Henry Fielding. Large Paper Edition. Bound in 3/4 red morocco. Linen boards. Raised bands. Top edges gilt. 520...

12 Volumes. The Brontë Sisters, Novels. Thornton Edition. Bound by Root & Son in 3/4 tan morocco and linen boards, double bordered in gilt-tooling. The spines are faded to brown and ...

2 Volumes. Samuel Rogers, The Writings. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full navy calf with the covers displaying a double border with floral corner flourishes, both gilt-tooled. The spines d...

14 Volumes. Anthony Trollope, The Barsetshire Novels. Shakespeare Head Edition. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and linen boards, bordered in gilt-tooling....

25 Volumes. Sir Walter Scott, The Waverley Novels. Centenary Edition. Bound in full tan calf with gilt-tooled bordering on the covers. Raised band spine with gilt-tooled detailing an...

Roscoe: A Novel, With a Signed Letter from the Author. Viking, 2002. Hard Cover with dust jacket. "It's V-J Day, the war is over, and Roscoe Conway, after twenty-six years as the second in command of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But there's no way out, and only his Machiavellian imagination can help him cope with the erupting disasters. Every step leads back to the past-to the early loss of his true love, the takeover of city hall, the machine's fight with FDR and Al Smith...

An exceptionally lovely extra-illustrated edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, in full calf signed bindings by Tout. An extra illustrated four volume edition of this landmark work ...

A superb set of the novels of Captain Marryat, elegantly and uniformly bound in half morocco, and illustrated throughout. A twenty-two volume set in half morocco bindings, with pictorial gilt to the spines. All edges gilt. Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was a Royal Navy officer and an early pioneer of nautical fiction. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) and for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847). He also developed Marryat's Code, a widely used system of maritime flag signalling. This handsome set includes twenty-two of Marryat's novels, edited with a prefatory note to each volume by R. Brimley Johnson. The set is lacking Volumes VII and X. These volumes have been reprinted from the first editions. Volume I contains a brief biography of Marryat by the editor. This set comprises: Volume I: Peter Simple Volume II: Frank Mildmay Volume III: Newton Forster Volume IV: Jacob Faithful Volume V: The Pacha of Many Tales Volume VI: Mr Midshipman Easy Volume VIII: Snarleyyow Volume IX: The Phantom Ship Volume XI: Poor Jack Volume XII: The King's Own Volume XIII: Joseph Rushbrook Volume XIV: Percival Keene Volume XV: Monsieur Violet Volume XVI: The Privateer's Man Volume XVII: Masterman Ready Volume XVIII: The Settlers in Canada Volume XIX: The Mission Volume XX: The Children of the New Forest Volume XXI: The Little Savage Volume XXII: Valerie Including two unnumbered, yet uniformly bound, volumes: Japhet, in Search of a Father and Olla Podrida. All volumes are illustrated with engraved frontispieces, and a further two engraved plates, by artists such as D. Downing, D. Murray-Smith, Charles O. Murray, J. Aytoun Symington and W. G. Tennick. The frontispiece to Volume XV is a folding map; this volume also contains a duplicated plate. Collated, complete. Undated, dated through copies held at Trinity College Dublin Library...

A smart set of the major novels of beloved author, Jane Austen, this set with the lively illustrations of Hugh Thomson. A smart set containing the major novels of Austen, complete w...

A nicely bound fully illustrated collection of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray. Complete in twenty-four volumes. Volume I, 'Vanity Fair Volume I', published in 1869. Illustrated by the author with a frontispiece, a vignette title page, and nineteen plates. Collated, complete. Volume II, 'Vanity Fair Volume II', published in 1869. Illustrated by the author with a frontispiece, and eighteen plates. Collated, complete. Volume III, 'The History of Pendennis Volume I', published in 1869. Illustrated by the author with a frontispiece, vignette title page, and twenty-two plates. Collated, complete. Volume IV, 'The History of Pendennis Volume II', published in 1869. Illustrated by the author with a frontispiece, a vignette title page, and twenty-two plates. Collated, complete. Volume V, 'The Newcomers Volume I', published in 1869. Illustrated by Richard Doyle...

Jonathan Richardson: Art Theorist of the English Enlightenment (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Carol Gibson-Wood. Yale Unive...