Search Results: Sets, Collections from Richard Beaton

London: 26 Wellington Street, 1878. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Contains: What He Cost Her by James Payn. Complete serialisation. Doubleday's Children by Dutton Cook. Complete serialisation. Strange Waters by R. E. Francillon. Complete serialisation. Christmas Numbers: When the Ship Comes In & Shepherds All and Maidens Fair by Besant & Rice. Five volumes, the first three in original green cloth, the second two rebound in blue cloth, with older leather labels attached. Corners rubbed, Volume 16 has small chips to cloth on hinges; Volume 17 has later yellow endpapers, a good run. A heavy collection which will require additional charges for delivery by courier. The three novels are all extremely difficult to find in book form. .

London: 26 Wellington Street, 1874. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Contains: Willing to Die by J. S. Le Fanu. Chapter XVII through to conclusion of serialisation. Notes or Gold by Percy Fitzgerald. Complete serialisation. Young Mr Nightingale by Dutton Cook. Complete serialisation. Also contains the anonymous Christmas Number for 1873: The Blue Chamber. Three volumes in original blindstamped dark green cloth. Corners rubbed, some small nicks to cloth, split at bottom of volume10, cloth lightly marked, endpapers creased: good. A heavy set which will require additional charges for delivery by courier..

London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1894. Book. Good. Hardcover. New Editions, undated, c1894. Select Library of Fiction. Five volumes uniformly bound in mid green cloth, with curtain design across boards in black, lettering in git; patterned endpapers. Bookplate of Newbold Revel Workman's Library in four volumes. boards lightly soiled, inner joint papers cracked in Bones and I. A good set. Extra postage will be required for delivery outside the UK .

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1894. Book. Good. Hardcover. New Editions, c1885 - 1894. Seven volumes uniformly bound in red cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front boards, lettered in gilt on spines. Some light marks, spines lightly sunned, some signatures; board edges sunned on General Bounce, Good for Nothing & Queen's Maries. A good set. Extra postage will be required for delivery outside the UK .

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1881. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Ten volumes in original green cloth on limp/light boards, framed, decorated and lettered in black and gilt. A few light marks, spines a trifle darkened, foxing on endpapers: a very good, clean, bright set. Pubblisher's catalogue for February 1881 bound in each volume. Complete in ten volumes: Disraeli's last novel, Endymion, had just been published, and would be added to the complete works for the Hughenden Edition later in the same year. Comprises 1) Vivian Grey, 2) The Young Duke & Count Alarcos, 3) Contarini Fleming & The Rise of Iskander, 4) Alroy etc 5) Henrietta Temple 6) Venetia, 7) Sybil, 8) Coningsby, 9) Tancred, 10) Lothair. A heavy set which will require additional delivery costs..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. New Editions, 1894, 1899, 1899. Three volumes uniformly bound in light green cloth on limp/light boards, decorated with mask of comedy (in bronze), and stage curtain in black; lettered in gilt, bronze and black on spines; green leaf-patterned endpapers. Minimal scuffing, a few light foxing spots, undated signature in first series, very good. Contains twenty-six plays by Gilbert, including the libretti for eleven of the collaborations by Arthur Sullivan. Chatto added a fourth series in 1911, but in a different binding. Heavy three volume set which will require additional postage outside the UK..

London: George G. Harrap, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 10 volumes (complete) in original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. A few light marks, a little light foxing, very good. A heavy set which will require additional shipping..

London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1894. Book. Good. Hardcover. New Editions, undated, c1894. Select Library of Fiction. Five volumes uniformly bound in pale green cloth, with curtain design across boards in black, lettering in git; patterned endpapers. Bookplate of Harrington Hutton (and reinforcement strips on inner joints) in each volume, a little sunning to board edges, tiny chip of spine of Rosine. A good set. Extra postage will be required for delivery outside the UK .

London: Constable & Co., 1920. Book. Good. Hardcover. Seventeen volumes in original fine ribbed blue cloth, with blindstamped framing, lettered in gilt on spines, top edges gilt. All volumes sunned on spines, a couple of volumes with small nicks to spine ends, the later volumes have dulled/oxidised lettering on spines. Contents clean and tight. A good reading set. The later volumes (1916 - 1920) have dulled lettering on spines, probably as a result of wartime economies. This edition did not include Meredith's poetry. A large and heavy set which will require additional delivery costs..