Jane Eyre, The Professor, Villette, Wuthering Heights, Shirley, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey [6 volumes] by Bronte, Charlotte; Bronte, Emily; Bronte, Anne; Edmund Dulac (illustrator) - 1920

1921. Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good. Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1921. Very Good. USA ORDERS ONLY, LARGE AND HEAVY BOOK. 6 volumes complete, (2375 total pages plus volume 3 is index) 3rd edition. Each book is 9.25x6.5x2 brown cloth covered boards with a red and a black spine label. Owners bookplate on ffep. Light wear on edges. Very rare. Digital photo available upon request.

Shanghai Commercial Press, Ltd, China, 1936 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and Chinese text; Hardcover (original blue cloth silk with gilt design - without dust jacket); 19.5 x 27.6 cm; 3.357 Kg; 4 volumes: 1. Bronze (101 pages); 2. Porcelain (3 parts) (244 pages); 3. Painting and Calligraphy (256 pages); 4. Miscellaneous (191 pages) (Tapestry and Embroidery, Jade, Cloisonné, Red Lacquer, Fans, Furniture and Writing Accessories, Archaeological Exhibits and Ancient Books); all with black and white illustrations.; Signs of wear in the hardcover cloth. Minor edgeworn. Minor scuffs on the front cover of the four volumes and on the back cover of the second and third volumes; The gilt designs on the front cover of the second and forth volume show minor yellowing marks. The interior is in very good condition with minor signs of wear.; REFERENCE EXHIBITION ON CHINESE ART.; Catalogue for the International Exhibition of Chinese Art held by the Royal Academy of Arts at Burlington House,… Read More

London: The Gresham Publishing Co., 1925-1928. 22 volumes. The scarce and handsome Medallion Edition. With frontispiece illustrations to the volumes and titles printed in black and red. 8vo, in the publisher's original blue cloth, the upper covers with medallion profile portraits of Conrad. A very fine and handsome set. A very distinguished looking set of Conrad's works. The tasteful presentation is fitting to this master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. His stories and novels, many with nautical settings, depict the trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, André Malraux, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Gabriel García Márquez, John le Carré, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie.

Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana Apud Balthasarem Moretum et Viduam Ioannis Moreti et Io. Meursium, first edition., 1623. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine engraved title with globe, cherubs & gods, second engraved showing angry men with torches & axes and a hydra monsteer by Cornelis Galle (1576-1650) after Rubens + 44 full-page copperplates by Collart and others + 55 nice initials with figural & anima. Three Volumes in Two folios. Full vellum with yapp edges and old ink titles to spines (Vol.I-II with vellum repair to split front hinge of spine, both Vols lack ties, some marks but mostly well-preserved, clean vellum). Vol.I half title + 1st engraved title +[32]pp prelims +409(recte 411)pp +[1]p blank; Vol.II half title +415-707 +[1]p cherubim & motto +[113]pp index with privilege at end + colophon dated 1623 + Plantin printer's device to last leaf. Vol.III half title + 2nd engraved title +[4]pp prelims +678pp + [107]pp index + colophon dated 1623 + printer's device to last leaf. Some page mis-numbering,… Read More

London: Printed for G. & W. Nicol, 1816. Octavo. A fine set all in lovely Zaehnsdorf bindings. Each volume contains the following works: Vol. 1. Memoirs of Jonson, & c. Every Man in his Humour -- v. 2. Every Man out of his Humour. Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self Love. The Poetaster, or His Arraignment -- v. 3. Sejanus. Volpone, or The Fox. Epicoene, or The Silent Woman -- v. 4. The Alchemist. Catiline. Bartholomew Fair -- v. 5. The Devil is an Ass. The Staple of News. The New Inn, or The light Heart -- v. 6. The Magnetic Lady, or Humours Reconciled. A tale of a Tub. The Sad Shepherd, or A Tale of Robin Hood. The Case is Altered. Entertainments, &c. -- v. 7. Masques at Court -- v. 8. Masques [continued]. Epigrams. Underwoods -- v. 9. Underwoods [continued]. Translations, &c. Timber, or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter. English grammar. Jonsonus Virbius, or The Memory of Ben Jonson. Glossarial index. Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in full polished calf, board edges triple ruled in gilt,… Read More

1921. Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good. Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1921. Very Good. USA ORDERS ONLY, LARGE AND HEAVY BOOK. 6 volumes complete, (2375 total pages plus volume 3 is index) 3rd edition. Each book is 9.25x6.5x2 brown cloth covered boards with a red and a black spine label. Owners bookplate on ffep. Light wear on edges. Very rare. Digital photo available upon request.

Shanghai Commercial Press, Ltd, China, 1936 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and Chinese text; Hardcover (original blue cloth silk with gilt design - without dust jacket); 19.5 x 27.6 cm; 3.357 Kg; 4 volumes: 1. Bronze (101 pages); 2. Porcelain (3 parts) (244 pages); 3. Painting and Calligraphy (256 pages); 4. Miscellaneous (191 pages) (Tapestry and Embroidery, Jade, Cloisonné, Red Lacquer, Fans, Furniture and Writing Accessories, Archaeological Exhibits and Ancient Books); all with black and white illustrations.; Signs of wear in the hardcover cloth. Minor edgeworn. Minor scuffs on the front cover of the four volumes and on the back cover of the second and third volumes; The gilt designs on the front cover of the second and forth volume show minor yellowing marks. The interior is in very good condition with minor signs of wear.; REFERENCE EXHIBITION ON CHINESE ART.; Catalogue for the International Exhibition of Chinese Art held by the Royal Academy of Arts at Burlington House,… Read More

London: The Gresham Publishing Co., 1925-1928. 22 volumes. The scarce and handsome Medallion Edition. With frontispiece illustrations to the volumes and titles printed in black and red. 8vo, in the publisher's original blue cloth, the upper covers with medallion profile portraits of Conrad. A very fine and handsome set. A very distinguished looking set of Conrad's works. The tasteful presentation is fitting to this master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. His stories and novels, many with nautical settings, depict the trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, André Malraux, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Gabriel García Márquez, John le Carré, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie.

Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana Apud Balthasarem Moretum et Viduam Ioannis Moreti et Io. Meursium, first edition., 1623. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine engraved title with globe, cherubs & gods, second engraved showing angry men with torches & axes and a hydra monsteer by Cornelis Galle (1576-1650) after Rubens + 44 full-page copperplates by Collart and others + 55 nice initials with figural & anima. Three Volumes in Two folios. Full vellum with yapp edges and old ink titles to spines (Vol.I-II with vellum repair to split front hinge of spine, both Vols lack ties, some marks but mostly well-preserved, clean vellum). Vol.I half title + 1st engraved title +[32]pp prelims +409(recte 411)pp +[1]p blank; Vol.II half title +415-707 +[1]p cherubim & motto +[113]pp index with privilege at end + colophon dated 1623 + Plantin printer's device to last leaf. Vol.III half title + 2nd engraved title +[4]pp prelims +678pp + [107]pp index + colophon dated 1623 + printer's device to last leaf. Some page mis-numbering,… Read More

London: Printed for G. & W. Nicol, 1816. Octavo. A fine set all in lovely Zaehnsdorf bindings. Each volume contains the following works: Vol. 1. Memoirs of Jonson, & c. Every Man in his Humour -- v. 2. Every Man out of his Humour. Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self Love. The Poetaster, or His Arraignment -- v. 3. Sejanus. Volpone, or The Fox. Epicoene, or The Silent Woman -- v. 4. The Alchemist. Catiline. Bartholomew Fair -- v. 5. The Devil is an Ass. The Staple of News. The New Inn, or The light Heart -- v. 6. The Magnetic Lady, or Humours Reconciled. A tale of a Tub. The Sad Shepherd, or A Tale of Robin Hood. The Case is Altered. Entertainments, &c. -- v. 7. Masques at Court -- v. 8. Masques [continued]. Epigrams. Underwoods -- v. 9. Underwoods [continued]. Translations, &c. Timber, or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter. English grammar. Jonsonus Virbius, or The Memory of Ben Jonson. Glossarial index. Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in full polished calf, board edges triple ruled in gilt,… Read More