1. Dickens, Charles.

American Notes for General Circulation.

First single-volume edition. London, Chapman and Hall, 1850. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece by C. Stansfield, XIII, 175 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Endpapers and pastedown with original publisher’s advertising. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Unusual in this excellent and firm condition.

2. Dickens, Charles.

Collection of six First Editions, all bound uniformely around 1850 and all in their original state. A stunning set with nearly all of the books in their First state of First Edition printing and with all plates complete. The collection includes: Bleak House / Little Dorrit / Nicholas Nickleby / Martin Chuzzlewit / Dombey and Son / David Copperfield. A very rare occasion in which a contemporary 19th-century lover of Dickens’ Literature had all Novels in their first edition bound to his/her liking. The mid-19th-century bindings beautiful in their simplicity and uniform style.

London, Chapman and Hall, 1839 – 1857. Octavo. Hardcover / Mid-19th-century Half-Leather with gilt lettering on spine. Original marbled endpapers. Very good condition with only few layers and illustrations loosened and the usual tanning to the illustrations. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. [The David Copperfield Volume has a defect (see detailed description below)]. Perfect collection of first editions to start a Dickens-Collection in contemporary, 19th-century bindings.

3. Helps, Arthur.

Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon.

Three Volumes (Original Series – Vol. I and II / New Series: Vol. II (of II)). London, William Pickering / John W. Parker and Son, West Strand, 1849 – 1859. 12.1 cm x 19.7 cm. Pagination: Volume I: Book One: VIII, 228 pages / Volume I: Book Two: VI, 324 pages / New Series – Volume II: VI, 370 pages. Hardcover / Original, very decoratiove full leather with raised bands, gilt lettering and ornament. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. [Byron Circle] Haygarth, William.

Greece, A Poem, In Three Parts; With Notes, Classical Illustrations, And Sketches Of The Scenery.

First Edition. London, Printed by W,Bulmer and Co., 1814. Quarto (24 cm wide x 30 cm high). 304 pages with all 9 original sepia-aquatint-plates by Charles Turner after Haygarth. Disbound due to broken binding. Halftitle and bookblock available with all 9 plates included. Needs rebinding. Bookblock firm, halftitle detached. All nine plates with faded dampstain but still in beautiful and strong impression. The wide-margined Text in excellent, clean condition besides the faded dampstain. Last page of the Volume with some browning. Very minor wormhole-damage to the last 14 pages. One illustration cleanly detached. Extremely Rare Book !

5. Stanhope, Earl Philip Henry.

Miscellanies. With some supplementary letters.

Second Edition. London, John Murray, 1863. 12 cm x 19 cm. 144 pages. Original Hardcover (full brown calf with gilt lettering to spine). Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

6. [Moore, John] / [Anonymous: “By the Author of Zeluco and Edward”].

Mordaunt. Sketches of Life, Characters, and Manners, in Various Countries; Including the Memoirs of A French Lady of Quality. By the Author of Zeluco and Edward.

First Irish Edition. Three Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for W. Watson and Son, G. Burnet, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1800. Small-Octavo (10.5 cm x 17 cm). II, 239, 276, 283 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th/19th-century leather with original spinelabels. All three Volumes in protective Mylar. The labels and spoine slightly damaged only. All Volumes firm and in overall very good condition. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his bookplate to the pastedown of Volume I. Bindings a little shaky but still intact; stronger rubbed with loss to labels. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

7. James, G.P.R. [George Payne Rainsford James].

One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre.

London / Belfast, Simms and McIntyre, 1850. Small-Octavo (10 cm x 16). 303 pages. Hardcover / 19th century, decorative half-leather with ornament and original spine-label. Vintage 19th-century bookseller-sticker from “″N. Massey, Cork” on front board. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. Binding a little dusty but overall very good.

8. Trollope, Anthony.

Phineas Redux.

2 volumes. London, Ward, Lock and Co., no date [c.1884]. 17.4cm x 11.8cm. IV, 595 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

9. [Jefferies, Richard] Miller, George / Matthews, Hugoe.

Richard Jefferies – A Bibliographical Study.

Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1993. Octavo. Portrait-Frontispiece of Richard Jefferies, XXVII, 787 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Rare in this condition. A wonderful and important publication on the publication-history of a tragic writer.

10. [Hays, Mary] Wedd, A.F.

The Fate of the Fenwicks – Letters to Mary Hays (1798-1828).

First Edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1927. Octavo (14.5 cm wide x 22 cm high). XVI, 248 pages (including Appendix and Index) plus 8 pages of a book-catalogue to the rear “Methuen’s General Literature”. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. The spine detaching. The binding otherwise firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some minor signs of foxing. A very, very rare book !!