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First edition; 4to, (262 x 200 mm); number 297 of 535 copies; hand-coloured pochoir plates by E. McKnight Kauffer, comprising 8 full-page drawings and 1 title-page vignette, prelims spotted and browned; original dark brown cloth, leaves uncut, spine and boards slightly sunned, extremities rubbed.
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First edition, one of 150 copies only; large 8vo (268 x 175 mm.); 5 plates by Charles Ricketts, internally very good; original burgundy morocco, elaborately ruled & blocked in gilt to a design by Ricketts, with his monogram to the foot of upper & lower panel, a little rubbed at spine-ends, but really an exceptional copy, top edge gilt, others uncut.
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2 vols, one of 600 copies & 550 copies respectively; 8vo; titles printed in red & black, vol. I with 5 etched plates by Charles Ricketts, 1 engraved bookplate design by William Bell Scott, tissue guards; vol. II with 16pp. advertisements at end; both in publisher's gilt-patterned green cloth, an attractive, clean pair.
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Number 773 of 800 copies; tall 8vo (260 x 155 mm.); title with vignette printed in red; original near-white cloth gilt, designed by Ricketts, top edge gilt, others uncut, an excellently bright & sharp copy.
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First trade edition, signed presentation copy from the author; small 4to (220 x 170 mm.); inscribed by the author to head of half-title, toning to free endpapers, overall internally fine; publisher's green cloth with symmetrical Venetian architectural interior design by Ricketts to upper cover, lettered in gilt to spine, very slight sunning to spine, otherwise a very good copy.
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First edition; 4to; 65 plates, pictorial endpapers by Charles Ricketts; publisher's blue cloth, printed dust-jacket, partly toned, overall a very good copy; with an offprint retrospective on Charles Ricketts by the poet Gordon Bottomley, initialled presentation copy from Bottomley to 'L.B.' [possibly Laurence Binyon(ý)], in original printed wrappers, some browning; with another work on Ricketts by Sturge Moore.
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One of 600 copies; 8vo; title printed in red & black, 5 etched plates by Charles Ricketts, 1 engraved bookplate design by William Bell Scott, tissue guards; publisher's gilt-patterned green cloth, a little rubbed and bumped at corners and spine ends, but overall an attractive, clean copy.
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One of 100 specially bound copies on japon vellum; 8vo; title printed in red & black, 5 etched plates by Charles Ricketts, 1 engraved bookplate by William Bell Scott, tissue guards (browned), small ink name to front free endpaper; publisher's gilt-patterned vellum, slightly splayed and rubbed, overall an attractive copy.
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Limited edition number 85 of 106 specially-bound copies on hand-made paper and signed by the artist, Granville-Barker and Rutherston, from an total edition of 606; 4to; colour plates by Charles Ricketts, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press of Stratford-upon-Avon; publisher's brown morocco with elaborate strapwork panels in gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, a little rubbed at extremities, joints starting but sound, small dent to rear board, otherwise very good-plus; lix, [blank], 84, [1]pp.
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First Stockdale edition and the first edition to be illustrated by Thomas Stothard, 2 volumes; large 8vo; 14 engraved plates after Thomas Stothard by Medland, author portrait prior to the Life of Defoe, contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco, boards with wide border of gilt fillets and roll tools, spine compartments with floral design made up of pointillé tools, green morocco title labels and volume numbers directly lettered, gilt turn-ins and edges, title-page and frontispiece to vol. I with small burn repair to each in outer margin, occasional spotting or light browning, without the list of subscribers, board edges lightly rubbed, a few minor ink spots on covers of vol. I, otherwise a very good set; 389; 456pp.
£3,800