Manuscripts, Literature, Modern Firsts

Combe (William) The History of Johnny Quae Genus,

first edition, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates by T.Rowlandson...

Scott (Sir Walter) Woodstock,

3 vol., 1826; Peveril of the Peak, 4 vol., 1822, half-titles...

Egan (Pierce, imitation) Real Life in London,

2 vol., additional hand-coloured engraved titles, frontispieces...

Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of the Pi

ckwick Club, 1838; Little Dorrit, 1857; Dombey and Son, 2 vol...

Ainsworth (William Harrison) Jack Sheppard,

3 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, etched...

Apperley (Charles J.) The Life of a Sportsman,

first edition, first issue, additional hand-coloured title...

[Bronte (Charlotte)] "Currer Bell". Jane Eyre,

2 vol., first Tauchnitz edition, foxing, contemporary half calf...

Borrow (George) Lavengro,

3 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved portrait, 1851;The...

Trollope (Anthony) The Vicar of Bullhampton,

plates, lacking half-title and advertisements, original cloth...

Apperley (Charles J) The Life of John Mytton,

fourth edition, additional engraved vignette title and...

[Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge)] "Lewis Carroll"

. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, first...

Hardy (Thomas) Wessex Tales,

2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 2 advertisement leaves at end...

Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Letters...to Elizabeth Hit

chener, 2 vol., [one of 30 copies], original cloth, fine copies...

Barrie (J M) The Little Minister,

3 vol., first edition, half-titles, 16pp. advertisements at end...

Kipling (Rudyard) The Jungle Book,

1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895, first editions, illustrations...

Weyman (Stanley) The Castle Inn,

frontispiece by Arthur Rackham, joints and spine ends slightly...

Wilde (Oscar) An Ideal Husband,

first edition, one of 1000 copies, original cloth, gilt, spine a...