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GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774). The Vicar of Wakefield ... with a Preface by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan, 1890. 4° (255 x 160mm). Hand-coloured wood-engraved illustrations by Hugh Thomson, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c. 115 plates, the majority hand-coloured, several by Edmund J. Sullivan, and including 12 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY H. DRAPER, many mounted and inlaid to size. Blue half morocco gilt by Bayntun, the spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt.
MALORY, Sir Thomas (fl. 1470). The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur. [Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears], 1909. 4° (250 x 190mm). Etched frontispiece, woodcut plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley. Contemporary tan morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, covers with double ruled borders with central Cross of St George on the upper cover and crowned Royal armorial on lower cover, both covers with lions in corner compartments, original green pictorial wrappers designed by Aubrey Beardsley bound in at the end, gilt edges. Together with 6 other illustrated works, including a large paper extra-illustrated of Daniel Defoe's The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (London: 1883, 2 volumes). (8)
MALORY, Sir Thomas (fl. 1470). The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur. [Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears], 1909. 4° (250 x 190mm). Etched frontispiece, woodcut plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley. Contemporary tan morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, covers with double ruled borders with central Cross of St George on the upper cover and crowned Royal armorial on lower cover, both covers with lions in corner compartments, original green pictorial wrappers designed by Aubrey Beardsley bound in at the end, gilt edges. Together with 6 other illustrated works, including a large paper extra-illustrated of Daniel Defoe's The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (London: 1883, 2 volumes). (8)
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