Rare books from Walter Lloyd Jones Saleroom

Illustration/decorated by Norah McGuinness. Blue boards with gilt decoration. Spine a little bumped. Good (8FW/I3)

5 volume set all with dustwrappers and some with compliments slips from one of the editors A O Chater. All in good condition. Vol 1 1964, Vol 2 1968, Vol 3 1972, Vol 4 1976, Vol 5 1980. (Also available separately Volume 1 second edition 1993) Heavy volumes will require extra postage

Thirteen volumes. Dulled spines, bumped corners and spines. Foxed/age toned endpapers. Interiors generally clean and bright, top edges dusty/dulled. Contributors include Max Beerbohm, Henry James, E Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, John Buchan, Ethel Reed, Ella d'Arcy, George Gissing, Edmund Gosse, Walter Sickert, Anatole France, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson, Sir Frederick Leighton etc. With publishers' advertisements and Elkin Mathews and John Lane Belles Lettres catalogues at rear of each volume. Volume 1 April 1894 third edition, contemporary ink owners name and date and WH Smith impressed stamp on ffep. Tissue guards. Volume II July 1894 second edition, small damage to spine, binding a bit shaky, some loose folds, tissue guards, contemporary signature and address on contents page. Volume III October 1894 first edition, gutter starting to split, binding shaky, some folds coming loose, tissue guards, contemporary owners name and WH Smith impressed stamp x2 on ffep. Volume IV January 1895 first edition,… Read More

Second impression. Hardback. Green linen boards, gilt titles, age toned at the edges in faded dustwrapper, not price clipped, aged at the edges and on rear jacket, short tears on flap fold, chipped at base of jacket spine and top of jacket spine and spine rubbed. Small loss just after the 'Heaney' on front of dw. Signed and inscribed. See images, more images available on request