Lot 93 , (Literary leather bindings) Dickens, Charles - Bleak House. first edition., Illustrated with 39 plates and engraved title by H.K. Browne.

(Literary leather bindings) Dickens, Charles - Bleak House. first edition.
Illustrated with 39 plates and engraved title by H.K. Browne. 19th century half green morocco, spine with gilt decorated raised bands, gilt rules and lettering in compartments. marbled edges and endpapers. Bradbury and Evans, 1853; Dickens, Charles - The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain... illus. by Tenniel. Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First Edition. 12mo, 188 pages; publisher's pictorial red cloth. Milton, John - Paradise Lost... illus. with engraved vignettes. contemporary blind stamped calf, gilt lettered labels, marbled edges and endpapers. John Sharpe. 1825. 8vo.; with 18 other leather volumes.
£120-160

Condition:
Bleak House - worn at extremities, some spotting to plates and contents, first endpaper coming loose. ppxvi+624 with three errors present for first edition. lacking half title. Haunted Man - some wear to extremities and spine, dampstain to pictorial title and title, contents sl. shaken. others include: Boswell - Life of Johnson. Routledge 1859. 4 vols; Scott - The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle. 1814 (Carruthers binding), Manzoni - I Promessi Sposi 1845; Macaulay - Essays 1870 (2 vols) and Life and Letters. ; Colletta - History of Naples. 2 vols. 1858; Wordsworth - Poetical Works; Shelly - Poetical Works. 1891; Bunyan - Pilgrim's Progress. (c.1860) 4to. with three others. (21) condition of others variable, some with inscriptions.