COMPLETE IN FIVE VOLUMES HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS GILT DECORATION TO THE SPINE MARBLED END PAPERS. NO DATE BUT CIRCA 1910. SLIGHT WEAR TO TOP OF SOME SPINES BUT AN ATTRACTIVE SET.
SIX VOLUMES IN HANDSOMELY BOUND IN HALF RED LEATHER AND CLOTH. CROSSBANDED AND GILT EMBOSSED SPINES. OLD REBOUND COPIES. VOLUMES ONE AND TWO ARE VERY FOXED AND AGE DARKENED. THE REMAINING ARE AGE DARKENED BUT LESS SO. VERY GOOD TIGHT BINDINGS.
FIRST EDITION THREE VOLUMES FOLIO (26 BY 40CM.) 557pp 581pp 603pp. RECENTLY (THIS YEAR 2016) FINELY REBOUND AND RESTORED IN QUARTER LEATHER OVER NEW BROWN BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS. VOLUME 1: LACKS TITLE PAGE HALF TITLE PREFACE (xxiii pp) 557 pp. PROFESSIONAL REPAIR TO SOME EARLY PAGE EDGES. VOLUME 2: HALF TITLE TITLE PAGE DATED 1703 DEDICATION (8pp) 581 pp EARLY PAGES WORN TO THE EDGES THEN VERY GOOD EVIDENCE OF WORMING TO A FEW LATE PAGES. VOLUME 3: TITLE PAGE DATED 1704 DEDICATION 603 pp INDEX. ONE VOLUME CONTAINS THE ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF WILLIAM GRIFFITH OF NORTH WALES DATED 1707. OVERALL A VERY HANDSOME AND TIGHT SET. EXTRA WILL BE REQUIRED POSTAGE OUTSIDE THE UK.
FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 200 COPIES. MARBLED CARD. 47 PAGES. WITH A TYPED LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE OPTALMIC HOSPITAL JERUSALEM DATED 1962 ADDRESSED TO LADY ?? (NOT CLEAR) ASKING HER TO ACCEPT THE BOOK FROM THE LATE LADY CROMER. A VERY GOOD COPY.
FIRST EDITION. AN UNANSWERABLE VINDICATION OF THE SOCIETY OF EXETER COLLEGE. IN REPLY TO THE VICE-CHANCELLOR DR. KING AND THE WRITERS OF THE LONDON EVENING POST. ATTRACTIVELY REBOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS 32 PAGES SOME FOXING.
