SPENSER, Edmund. The Poetical Works . London: William Pickering, Nattali and Combe, Talboys and Wheeler, 1825. 5 volumes, 8° (182 x 113mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Finely bound in straight-grained calf gilt by Riviere & Son, sides and spines mottled to an unusual multicoloured design, triple ruled border on sides, spines with contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, ruled gilt in compartments with floral decoration, gilt edges. A VERY UNUSUAL AND ATTRACTIVE BINDING. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Works . London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. 8° (182 x 119mm). Contemporary polished tree calf gilt, single gilt floral border on sides, spines lavishly decorated gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece (part of covers very lightly faded), gilt edges. MOORE, Thomas. Poetical Works . London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868-69. 10 volumes, 8° (169 x 107mm). Engraved frontispieces and titles. Contemporary half calf, morocco lettering-pieces, spines decorated gilt with floral motifs (spines very lightly faded). With 17 works in 37 vols. including Joseph Addison's The Miscellaneous Works, in verse and prose (London, 1765, 4 vols.), William Shakespeare's Plays and Poems (London, 1851, 15 vols.), Ben Jonson's Dramatic Works (London, 1811, 4 vols.), Alexander Pope's The Works ... with a selection of explanatory notes and the account of his life by Dr. Johnson (London, 1812, 8 vols.), Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (London, 1883, 2 vols., NO. 22 OF 150 COPIES), Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy also A Tale of a Tub ... By Jonathan Swift (London, 1882, NO. 22 OF 150 COPIES) and Jonathan Swift's Travels into several remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver (London, 1882, NO. 22 OF 150 COPIES). (88)
SPENSER, Edmund. The Poetical Works . London: William Pickering, Nattali and Combe, Talboys and Wheeler, 1825. 5 volumes, 8° (182 x 113mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Finely bound in straight-grained calf gilt by Riviere & Son, sides and spines mottled to an unusual multicoloured design, triple ruled border on sides, spines with contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, ruled gilt in compartments with floral decoration, gilt edges. A VERY UNUSUAL AND ATTRACTIVE BINDING. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Works . London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. 8° (182 x 119mm). Contemporary polished tree calf gilt, single gilt floral border on sides, spines lavishly decorated gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece (part of covers very lightly faded), gilt edges. MOORE, Thomas. Poetical Works . London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868-69. 10 volumes, 8° (169 x 107mm). Engraved frontispieces and titles. Contemporary half calf, morocco lettering-pieces, spines decorated gilt with floral motifs (spines very lightly faded). With 17 works in 37 vols. including Joseph Addison's The Miscellaneous Works, in verse and prose (London, 1765, 4 vols.), William Shakespeare's Plays and Poems (London, 1851, 15 vols.), Ben Jonson's Dramatic Works (London, 1811, 4 vols.), Alexander Pope's The Works ... with a selection of explanatory notes and the account of his life by Dr. Johnson (London, 1812, 8 vols.), Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (London, 1883, 2 vols., NO. 22 OF 150 COPIES), Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy also A Tale of a Tub ... By Jonathan Swift (London, 1882, NO. 22 OF 150 COPIES) and Jonathan Swift's Travels into several remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver (London, 1882, NO. 22 OF 150 COPIES). (88)
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