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bon page marker. [45888] £125 First published in instalments. Originally Gaskell published a story en- titled “Our Society in Cranford” in the magazine ‘Household Words’, and was encouraged to write more episodes by the magazine’s editor, Charles Dickens. These episodes were all eventually published as one volume; Cranford.
163. KEATS, John POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS W.P. Nimmo & Co., 1906. Handsomely bound in quarter white vellum over blue boards. Marbled end papers. Gilt Art Nouveau design on the spine, with green leath- er title label and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. A near fine copy, with some spotting to the page edges and neat inscription on the free front endpaper. A very attractive copy. [46155] £175
161. GASKELL, E. C. THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE Au- thor of “Jane Eyre,” “Shirley,” &c. Smith, Elder & Co., 1857. First edition. Two volumes. Original publisher’s brown choco- late cloth, decorated in blind to the covers and with gilt titles to the spine. Sixteen page catalogue of adverts at the end of vol II, dated March 1857. Engraved frontispiece to each volume. A very good set indeed with cloth clean and free from repair. Each volume slightly cocked and a small abrasion and mark to the front cover of volume one. Rear hinge of vol. II just starting, but all other hinges perfect. Internally very clean with some sections of vol. I sitting slightly proud of the text block. Discreet library mark of Hugh Selbourne to each volume. In all a very well pre- served set of this important literary biography, seldom encoun- tered in original cloth without significant repair. [46055] £3,000
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever” 164. KEATS, John; BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John ENDYMION A Poetic Romance The Golden Cockerel Press, 1947. First edition. 4to. Limited edition, number 193 of 400 copies printed on Arnold’s hand-made paper, from a total edition of
500. Bound by Sangorski and Sut- cliffe in quarter vellum over buck- ram boards, with gilt lettering and vignettes. Top edge gilt. Wood-en- gravings by John Buckland-Wright. A near fine copy, with just some offsetting causing browning to one page. [44960] £1,750 This exquisite production of Keats’s epic poem is usually accepted as the artist’s masterpiece. “His wood en- gravings for this book have a romantic beauty that could hardly be surpassed and, as there are not less than fif- ty-eight of them, they make it a par- ticularly sumptuous volume.” Cockalorum 175 Reid A47, p23.
EDITION DE LUXE 162. GASKELL, Elizabeth; BROCK, C.E. CRANFORD Dent, 1911. Fourth edition illustrated by Brock. 8vo. Deluxe issue. Full white vellum, elaborately decorated and titled with gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Decorative endpapers. Twenty-four colour plates, plus illustrated title page, by C.E. Brock. A near fine copy with slight bowing of the spine, marks to some of the pages and a detached red rib-
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