Lot 1017 , Wordworth, William - The Excursion, being a portion of The Recluse, a Poem, 2nd edition. 19th cent. gilt decorated polished calf with panelled spine (distressed). 1820; Dickens, Charles - The Story of Little Dombey. 1st
° Wordworth, William - The Excursion, being a portion of The Recluse, a Poem, 2nd edition. 19th cent. gilt decorated polished calf with panelled spine (distressed). 1820; Dickens, Charles - The Story of Little Dombey. 1st edition. contemp. gilt half calf and marbled boards, sm. 8vo. Bradbury & Evans, 1858; Twain, Mark - The Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrim's Progress....1st English edition. frontis. and many engraved illus. (some full page); contemp. half calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated panelled spine with red labels. Chatto & Windus, 1881; sold with other antiquarian volumes of a literary nature (25)
£100-140
Condition:
Excursion - some spine wear (piece missing at head, lacks most of bottom panel), front inner hinge cracked, mostly good inside, old ownership on title (iii)-xx, 452pp., lacks half title; Dombey - some binding wear, some pencil scribbles end blanks, few intermittent marks inside but mostly good. (4), 121pp. contemp. gift inscription at front; Twain - lt. wear head/tail spine and at corners, o/w. good. xxvi, 613pp. (incl. half title); Others include - Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (new edtn., Edinburgh, 1819), orig. cloth backed grey boards with printed label; Boswell's Account of Corsica....(5th edtn. Dublin, 1769), contemp. calf;, Thomson's Seasons, With His Life (etc), by Percival Stockdale (1793), port. and 4 plts. (etc.), subscribers list
Sold for £50