Fine Books and Manuscripts

[Fine Bindings] Full Shelf of Finely Bound Small Sets of Literature. 23-volumes. Includes A Modern Comedy and The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy (William Heinemann, 1929/30; half green calf, compartments decorated and ruled in gilt, morocco spine labels); The Diary of Samuel Pepys in 2-vols. (Robert Rivière & Son, ca. 1920s; half red calf, raised bands, gilt centerpieces in compartments); Ten Thousand A-Year in 3-vols. by Samuel Warren (Little, Brown and Company, 1889; half green morocco, raised bands, gilt centerpieces in compartments); The First Violin in 2 vols. by Jessie Fothergill (J.W. Meyer, 1896; half green morocco, spine compartments ruled and titled in gilt); 3 vols. containing Literary Shrines, A Literary Pilgrimage, and Literary Haunts and Homes by Theodore F. Wolfe (J.P. Lippincott, 1895/1898; half red morocco, floral centerpieces gilt in compartments); The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett in 2-vols. (Smith, Elder, & Co., 1899; three-quarter red levant bound by Bayntun, spines ornately tooled with several floral ornaments in gilt); 4-vols of works by Alice Meynell (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920s; three-quarter red levant bound by The French Binders of New York, compartments tooled with gilt springs and framed in gilt fillets); 2-vols. by George Sand (H.M. Caldwell, 1894; half blue morocco, gilt sprigs in compartments; lacking front cover in The Devil’s Pool); and The Ingoldsby Legends in 3-vols. by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Bently, 1852; half blue morocco, central gilt sprigs in compartments). T.e.g. 8vos. Generally very good bindings.