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London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Black cloth elaborately gilt, DW, 8vo., xxxi, 350 pages, illustrated. A near fine copy with light edgewear only, in a clean DW whose spine has been neatly removed, in archival mylar.

London: John Lane - The Bodley Head Ltd., 1929. First thus. The book begins as the story of a handsome footman who resists the come-ons of a wealthy woman - intended to parody a popular eighteenth century novel about hand-maid in the same fix - and then takes on a life of its own, describing the further adventures of this footman and the persons he meets along the way. The twelve full-page Tealby illustrations (plus additional ones within the text) are quite expressive of the humor of the book. Black cloth printed in gilt, pictorial endpapers, 350 pages. Some light external wear, mainly a bit of fraying to the spine ends, good hinges, very clean pages. Five of the plates have dampstains at the far top inner margins, with only one having the stain actually touch the printed image (the stains must have occurred prior to binding, as none of the text pages have similar stains). Very clean pages, with no foxing other than a light scattering on the first blank and half-title. Name on first blank. A… Read More

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, nd (c1929). Pictorial black cloth. Fine/Fine dj in slipcase (lacking top and rubbed). large 8vo. 12 full page plates and many other illustrations, and endpapers and cover pictorials by Norman Tealby. 1st edition thus

Folio Society., January 1967. Hardcover. Used - Good/Fair. Book is in good condition, the dust jacket has some shelf ware. Printed in 1953.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1904. Blue cloth. A few marginal marks, light rubbing of cover extremities: VG/no dj. 8vo. Frontispiece engraving of author + 4 black and white plates by George Cruikshank. With a short biography by Thomas Roscoe, revised.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1889. Four volumes in all, finely bound in contemporary unsigned half red morocco over marbled boards, backs with five raised bands and gilt decorations, marbled end papers, tops gilt. Near Fine, pages 15-16 of Vol. I of Tom Jones detached, light rubbing at corners. Twenty Cruikshank engravings between the four folumes. Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews published 1889, Amelia published 1884. Quite uncommon as a set, especially so in such lovely bindings. . Bell's Edition . Half Morocco. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.