Library Sets from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Oxford: Oxford University Press 1967. 8vo. 21 volumes complete. Cloth with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial dust jackets. Certain jackets have some loss at spine ends, with sunning to some spines. Some jackets are clipped, while others have later price stickers. Jackets mostly VG, with 5 or so a bit less than that. All the books are internally clean,… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society 1981 - 1988. 8vo. 16 volumes. 13 are first impressions, with the others being second impressions. Quarter dark green cloth in uniform green slipcases (Oliver Twist in a lighter slipcase). Gilt design and lettering to spines, over patterned paper-covered boards, with each volume being of a different colour. Wear to extremities of a few slipcases. All… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. 1919. 16mo. The Everyman's Library edition in 6 volumes complete. Publisher's red cloth with dulled gilt lettering and design to spines, which have faded; top edge stained blue. Bumping and rubbing to extremities, with slight fraying to a few volumes. Light spotting to edges, though all internally clean. No. 434 of Everyman's Library.… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton 2004. 8vo. Omnibus edition of all of Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey/ Maturin novels (a total of 21 volumes, including 3 chapters of his unfinished last novel, '21'). Contained in around 7000 pages, across 5 hardbacks in illustrated dust jackets and a slipcase. Some of the earlier volumes have some scratching to the surface of their… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society 1992. Large 8vo. First edition thus. 3 volumes. xx, 428; vi, 450; viii, 248 pp. Pictorial cloth with gilt lettering to spines and in printed slipcase. Books are clean and fresh, in fine condition. Illustrations by Peter Harding. With an introduction by Michael Moorcock. This particular edition was praised by the journal Peake Studies who, on… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Johnson [etc.] 1803. Large 8vo. 4 volumes. Quarter red long grain morocco over cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spines. Top edges gilt and endpapers decorated. With engraved sub titles and plates throughout each volume, alongside a leaf of marbled paper at p.267/268 of volume 1. Some rubbing at the spine and edges of bindings… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society 2010-2012. 8vo. 17 volumes of 20. Blue illustrated cloth with gilt decorations to the spines and front boards, in slipcases. Occasional minor signs of wear to the slipcases. Bindings all in lovely condition, and are internally clean and bright. This set of 17 lacks the final 3 volumes (The Yellow Admiral, The Hundred Days and Blue… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan 1912-1938. 8vo. 35 volumes (complete). Full maroon calf with gilt decorations to spines and front covers. All edges of the earliest volume Wee Willie Winkie gilt; Top edges gilt on all other volumes. With red ribbon bookmarks to each of the volumes. Illustrations throughout a number of the volumes, inc. The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book,… Read more about this item

London: The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd. 1905 - 1908. 12mo. c. 1905. 39 volumes complete. 37 plays and 2 volumes of Poems. Cream coloured cloth with lovely green and red Arts & Crafts decoration on front covers and spines by Talwin Morris. Top edge burnished green. Title-pages in red & black. Frontis to each volume. Some minor bumping at spine… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley 1840. 8vo. 6 volumes. Half calf with gilt lettering and decoration to spine over marbled boards; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Some rubbing and minor wear to extremities, particularly with damage and loss to the spine of volume 3. Previous owner's bookplate. Internally clean. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1840.

London: H. S. Nichols & Co. 1894. Large 8vo. In 12 volumes complete. Bound in original, gilt decorated, black cloth with top edge gilt. Gilt fresh and bright with slight bumping to extremities, light wear in a few cases. Light spotting to some edges. Published in 1894 three years before the illustrated edition and shortly after Lady Burton edition, the… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent & Co. 1903. 8vo.Limited Edition. Twelve volumes each with c. 400 pages. Numbered limited edition, 200 sets for England, of which this is no. 101. Gilt decorated vellum spine over blue publisher's cloth. Author's gilt cipher to front boards. Top edges gilt and deckle edges. Very light wear to extremities, with light bumping and marking to… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent & Co. 1893-1897. 8vo. English language. 60 volumes, published 1893-97. Green cloth with elaborate gilt 'Dumas' monogram and fleur-de-lys devices and lettering to spines and boards; decorated endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut. Generally an unusually clean and bright set, inside and out, with minor rubbing to extremities, occasional minor marks to boards and light spots… Read more about this item

London: The Zodiac Press 1949 / 1950. 8vo. In 6 volumes, mixed editions. Publisher's original cream & brown patterned hardbacks with gilt titles to spines. Top edges burnished red-brown. Minor sunning and a few spots to the spines, and fading to ends. Binding firm, light spots to prelims and/or fore-edges, else internally clean. A nice set of Trollope's series of… Read more about this item

London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies 1802. 8vo. Third Edition. 4 volumes. xii, 396; xx, 471; xii, 425; xxiv, 414, 2 pp. Original brown speckled calf boards with gilt borders, respined with lighter brown calf and gilt lettering; marbled endpapers. Rubbing, scratches and marks to boards and corners. Minor yellowing internally, occasional spots, but generally interrnally clean. Author frontispiece… Read more about this item

London: Bell and Daldy / The Aldine Edition c. 1880. Small 8vo. 6 volumes. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and black decoration. Pages uncut. Minor rubbing to extremities, especially volume 6. Offsetting to endpapers, otherwise generally internally clean. A very good set. Part of The Aldine Edition of the British Poets series. This is a heavy set and may… Read more about this item

London: John Murray 1831 / 1829. 12mo. 8 volumes: 6 volumes of 'Works' + 2 volumes of 'Don Juan etc.' Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decor to spines; pages uncut. Spines all slightly faded, boards have a few light marks. Bindings slightly slanted. New endpapers to volume 1, 7 and 8; ink names to ffep. in remaining volumes. Minor… Read more about this item

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1992. 8vo.Facsimile. 6 volumes. Blue hardbacks with gilt lettering to spines. One or two minor marks to boards. Internally clean and bright. 1992 reissue of 1888 edition; the book was originally written by Edward, Earl of Clarendon, an advisor to both Charles I and Charles II. One of the most significant histories of the 1642-to-1646… Read more about this item

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1903. 8vo. 16 volumes. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spines; top edges gilt. Slight rubbing to the extremities. Occasional spots and offsetting to endpapers but generally internally clean. The quintessential man of letters, Walpole was an English writer, art historian, antiquarian, and Whig politician who famously wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1875, 1870, 1871. 8vo. 10 volumes. Half light brown calf over marbled boards, with raised bands, red and green title labels, gilt lettering and decoration to spines; marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Rubbing to bottom edges of boards and a few minor scratches and marks to leather, occasional slight rubbing to boards. Bookplates to front… Read more about this item