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158. DICKENS, Charles ALL THE YEAR ROUND: CALENDAR FOR 1912 With Quotations from Charles Dickens Ernest Nister, 1912. First edition. 12mo. Cloth spine and bevelled parch- ment covered boards, dec- orated in green, yellow and gold. Decorative end papers, decorative title
page with gilt lettering, each page with pictorial borders decorated in gilt and eight chromolith- ographic colour illustrations. A very good copy indeed. [46537] £45 A delightful almanac with selection from the works of Dickens, produced in the centenary of Dickens’ birth.
and tooling to the spine, raised bands creating six sections with two morocco title labels in green and red. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. A near fine set, with very occasional spots of internal foxing and the trimming of the title pages of vol I and IV clipping some of the “translation rights” text slightly. [46335] £4,500 Eliot’s greatest novel written at the height of her artistic maturity. V.S.
159. EGAN, Pierce THE PILGRIMS OF THE THAMES In Search of the National! Strange, 1838. First edition. 8vo. Half tan calf over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Twenty-four hand coloured full page wood engravings by Pierce Egan, the Younger. A good copy, tightly bound and showing light signs of age., frontispiece inserted in reverse. [46542] £150 A humorous novel in the Pickwickian style, with a rotund gentleman in the frontispiece also bar- ing a likeness to Mr Pickwick. Sadleir 810
Pritchett in his introduction to a later edition of the novel, opines, “No Victorian nov- el approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the im- perturbable spaciousness of its narrative... No writer has ever represented the ambiguities of moral choice so fully.”
160. ELIOT, George MIDDLEMARCH A Study of Provincial Life Blackwood, 1871-2. First edition in book form. 8vo. Four volumes, handsomely bound in later half calf over marbled boards with blind tooling to calf edges. Lettered in gilt and decorated with gilt banding
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