Fine bindings: History and literature

Fine bindings: History and literature

A collection of 24 fine bindings, including:

Hazlitt (William) The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, 4 vols., second edition revised, later armorial gilt-stamped morocco, marbled endpapers, Illustrated London Library, 1852; d’Abrantes (Duchess) Memoirs of Napoleon…, gilt-panelled morocco by Taffin, Richard Bentley, 1836; Carlyle (Thomas) The French Revolution, full morocco gilt by Hatchards, Chapman and Hall, 1906; Keats (John) The Poems, 2 vols. in 1, reprinted from the 1915 edition, full morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, Florence Press, Chatto & Windus (vol. 1) & Brentano’s (vol. 2), 1928; Shakespeare (William) The Sonnets, gilt-panelled morocco by Zaehnsdorf, Folio Society, 1947; Trevelyan (G. M.) Illustrated History of England, full morocco gilt by the Wigmore Bindery, 1956; with others similar, in full or half morocco, the majority by the same binders, ex-libris J. Hadfield to front endpapers, v.s. (24)