Showing all 2 results

• 

  Rare Complete Set of Dickens' Christmas Books; finely bound in full calf

  DICKENS, Charles.

  The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

  London: Chapman and Hall, 1843-60.

  Early printings of all five of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books, finely bound. Octavo, 5 volumes, bound in full calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, black and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruled panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with sixty-three engravings altogether, four in color, by Leech, Maclise, Stanfield, Doyle and Landseer. In fine condition. An exceptional set.

  Price: $7,500.00     Item Number: 121293

  Add to cart

  Add to Wishlist

  Ask a Question Details
• 

  "One thing is certain, and the rest is lies; the flower that once has blown for ever dies": Willy Pogany's illustrated RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM; finely bound by Bayntun Riviere

  TRANSLATED BY EDWARD FITZGERALD. ILLUSTRATED BY WILL POGANY,.

  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

  London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., n.d..

  Elaborately bound example of Pogany's finely illustrated Rubaiyat. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Banytun Riviere with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, quadruple gilt ruling, fleuron cornerpieces, and central gilt arabesque to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated by Willy Pogany. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. In very good condition.

  Price: $1,200.00     Item Number: 129800

  Add to cart

  Add to Wishlist

  Ask a Question Details