First edition of the French translation, one of 75 numbered copies on Rives laid paper, the deluxe issue.
A fine copy.
First edition of the French translation, one of 20 numbered copies on pur fil paper, ours one of the few hors commerce, a deluxe issue. Endpapers lightly and entirely toned. A fine copy with full margins.
First French edition, translated by William Hugues, under the direction of P. Lorrain.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 3 fleurons. Gilt titles and volume labels. Light traces of rubbing. Very fresh set, free from foxing except for some pale browning on the first text page of volume 1.
A work of great darkness, Little Dorrit is the second of Dickens's three political and social novels. It is a denunciation of Victorian society obsessed with wealth and power. G. B. Shaw would judge the novel "More seditious than Karl Marx's Capital". The novel begins in Marseille. One of Dickens's great works.
Bell's Edition. The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Edinburgh, Apollo Press, by the Martins, and London, Apollo Press, by George Cawthorn, 1782-1804, 18mo (8.5 x 13.5 cm).
An important gathering of volumes from John Bell’s celebrated series, uniformly bound at the time: 34 physical volumes, numbered 1 to 35 with volume 8 lacking, that volume having contained parts 5 and 6 of Edmund Spenser’s poetical works. The present set therefore comprises 97 parts actually present out of the 99 that this particular gathering would contain if complete.
First edition for which no grand papier (deluxe) copies were printed.
Small marginal pieces missing at the top of the first board, a clear remnant of adhesive paper at the bottom of the first endpaper.
Copy complete with the facsimile at the end of the volume.
Precious handwritten inscription signed by Gabriele d'Annunzio to Natalie Clifford Barney: « à miss Barney et au Temple de l'Amitié attentive, cette légère torpille ‘sine litteris' est offerte par la ‘tête d'ivoire'. Gabriele d'Annunzio » (“To Miss Barney and the attentive Temple of Friendship, this light ‘sine litteris' torpedo is offered by the ‘ivory head'. Gabriele...
