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8vo (205 x 155 mm); illustrated as detailed above; modern half crimson morocco over red cloth, gilt spine, marbled endpapers and top edge gilt.
£275 -
Folio 312 x 255 mm); music score with lyrics, decorated with pictorial vignettes, including title-page, head, tail and endpiece; vrey mild age-toning, offsetting to head of title-page, small nick to base of p.8, else very good; publisher's quarter cloth over papered boards, with printed paper label to upper board, pictorial dust-jacket, sunned spine, very minor soiling, more so to rear panel, chips to extremities with small losses to tail of spine and outer corners; otherwise a very good copy; [ii] + 34 pp.
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First Edition; Folio 312 x 255 mm); music score with lyrics, decorated with pictorial vignettes, including title-page, head, tail and endpiece; mild age-toning, else near-fine; publisher's quarter cloth over papered boards, with printed paper label to upper board, pictorial dust-jacket, sunned spine, chips to extremities with small losses to tail of spine and upper, outer corner; otherwise a very good and clean copy; [vi] + 40 pp.
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12 volumes, First editions in this format, first impressions throughout; 8vo; some typical, albeit mild, spotting to the fore edges and occasional oxidisation to the spine lettering of a few volumes; publisher's grey cloth, titles to spines gilt on purple ground, purple topstains, with the dust jackets. Withal an exceptional set in the dust jackets which show mild, even tanning at the spines.
£950 -
First edition, first printing, first state binding (the gilt stamp to the foot of the spine bearing publisher's name 'J.R.Osgood & Co' without a full stop); 8vo; some marginal toning, contents separating a little; publisher's terracotta cloth, spine darkened, rubbed at corners and along joints, a few marks and scuffs, a little frayed and nicked at spine ends; [2 (blank), 7], 496 pp.
£950 -
First UK edition, 8vo., one of 4000, one corner crease to page 9, otherwise very good, modern full blue morocco, one-line gilt-panelled back, floral Japanese endpapers, a very handsome copy.
£550 -
26 volumes, 8vo., copy of the 1907 edition, Preface by the Author, modern half navy-blue morocco with maroon letting pieces gilt, foliate endpapers and all edges gilt, a fine set.
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First edition, one of 750 copies, 8vo, publisher's advertisements at end of vol. II & III, green endpapers, labels of Exeter bookbinder A.L. Noake on upper pastedowns, small stamps of same on half-titles, hinges repaired, original blue-green fine-bead cloth, covers with black fillet borders, spines lettered in gilt, expert, minor repairs to cloth of spines, a few gatherings crudely opened, further slight wear to edges and corners of bindings, minor marks to covers, overall an attractive copy, preserved in matching solander box.
£8,500