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8.melVille, Herman the Works. Constable and Company. 1922-24.
£9,995
8vo. 16 vols.; original blue cloth, wide blind-stamped borders to sides, spines lettered in gilt and with decorative blind-stamped panels, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, with the blue-grey dust-jackets repeating the cover design; neat repairs to some of the jackets, a little light foxing to prelims, otherwise an excellent set, with the publisher’s Prospectus loosely inserted; scarce, particularly with the dust-jackets.
standard edition; number 413 of 750 sets, including the first publication of one of Melville’s masterworks, the novella Billy Budd, which was discovered in manuscript among Melville’s papers at the time.Volume Xii includes a bibliography of the first editions of Melville’s prose works, compiled by Michael sadleir, and Volume XVi contains Melville’s poems, some of which had not previously appeared in book form. this is still very much a “standard” edition, albeit hard to find.
9. lUGar, robert. architectural sketches For cottages, rural Dwellings and Villas, in the grecian, gothic and Fancy styles, with Plans, suitable to Persons of genteel life and Modest Fortune. Preceded by some observations on scenery and character proper for Picturesque Building. a new edition. [with] Plans and Views of Buildings executed in england and scotland in the castellated and other styles. a new edition. [with] tHomson, J[ames]. retreats: a series of Designs consisting of plans for elevations for cottages, Villas, and ornamental Buildings. J. Taylor, 1824; 1823; 1827.
£6,500
4to. (290 x 220 mm). three works in one. handsomely bound in contemporary full straight-grained morocco, elaborately gilt panelled boards and spine, all edges gilt, preserved in a cloth-bound slipcase; pp. 31, [1], 23 fine hand-coloured plates, 6 of which include a ground-plan, and 15 plates of ground- plans; pp. 28, 32 plates, of which 16 are sepia aquatints depicting buildings, the remainder being engraved ground-plans; half-title, pp. viii, 32, 41 plates, 31 of which are hand-coloured aquatints and 10 ground-plans for corinthian, Doric, gothic and rustic villas, aquatic temples, rustic lodges, water-gates and various gothic and grecian cottages.
Abbey Life 30, citing the first edition of 1805 with uncoloured plates; Abbey Life 31; Abbey Life 76; Prideaux, p. 353.
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