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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1862. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. hardback in original cloth xxxii + 351, 352-720, 721-910pp., engravings, appendix, index, Some wear to boards o/w a nice, clean, tight set

London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1849. First Edition thus. Original Cloth. Fine. First Printing of the Dallaway and Wornum edition, a "New Edition, Revised, with Additional Notes," complete in three volume in original cloth. Demy 8vo (220 x 135mm): xxxii,351,[1]; [5],352-479,514-720; [4],721-1007,[2],[Appendix & Index]482-510,[36]pp, with three tissue-guarded frontispiece portraits and 77 further full-page plates, plus 89 wood engravings. Pagination irregular, but text continuous throughout. Original publisher's brown cloth, covers elaborately stamped in blind, spines lettered and numbered in gilt, pale yellow end papers. A few leaves roughly opened, but a truly spectacular set in publisher's original bindings with bright gilt; largely unopened, tightly bound, pages and plates virtually pristine. Hazen (Strawberry Hill), p. 66. Lowndes V, p. 2820. Originally published in 1762, this revised edition, based on an edition issued between 1826 and 1828 ("with considerable additions")… Read More

London: printed for J. Dodsley, 1782. 5 vols., 8vo, pp. [4], xiv, [2], 288, [32]; [4], 286, [82]; [4], 291, [13]; [2], [v]-vi, [v]-xvi, [2], 316, [20]; [2], 304, [6]; full contemporary calf with an early rebacking, old spines with red and black morocco labels laid down; spines darkened, but generally very good. With the ownership stamp at the top of each title of Francis Hiorne, F.S.A., and with his manuscript note on T2v regarding a volume of John Thorpe's drawings, purchased at a bookseller's shop in Whitehall and give to Francis Greville, Earl of Warwick, a few years before he died. Volume 4 is second edition; volume 5 is Walpole's Catalogue of Engravers. Hazen 14, citing the first edition of 1762-71.

England: Strawberry-Hill, 1763. First Edition. Hardcover. Good (Boards are heavily worn/scuffed/smudged; covers are very loose; ribbon bookmarks are frayed and worn; spine strips are chipped and scuffed at both ends; inner hinges are cracked; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; bookplate of former owner ifc of volume 1; interior is clean, but toned and lightly foxed and smudged in places; marginalia is present in places; textblocks appear solid.). Contemporary brown leather binding with mounted red and black title and volume cards on the spines, with gilt lettering and illustration; marbled endpapers; black cloth bookmark; two books, the first with the heraldic bookplate of Thos. Patten of Bank, Esq. the second volume showing the remains of said bookplate. Book 1:Frontis, tp, (iii-XII), Contents of the First Volume, pp. 1- 168, [14 pp. Appendix followed by 6 pp. Indexes, and 1 pp. Errata]. Contents of second volume, Vol. 2: TP, pp. 1-158, [51 pp. Appendix, followed by 6 pp. of Indexes and 1… Read More

England: Thomas Farmer at Strawberry Hill, 1763-1771. First edition, second state. Hardcover. Very Good +. 7 x 9 in. Contemporary red morocco with gilt titles and spine decorations. Marbled endpapers. First edition, second state, with numerous engraved plates. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; all hinges are solid with no tenderness. Covers have some wear to edges, vol. 4 has some more wear to the lower corners. Spine labels have some chips, loss to lower part of vol. 3, loss to all of vol. 4. Bindings tight and text very clean and bright. All have the engraved bookplate of Ernest Hamilton Sharp on the front pastedown. A very nice set. Art. RGR.