Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

AUSTEN, Jane. [The Works.] London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1886-1892. 6 vols., new edition, 8vo (183 x 115mm.) 6 engraved frontispieces. (Occasional spotting to preliminaries.) Contemporary grey half-morocco, by Roger de Coverly, the spines in six compartments with gilt raised bands, titled in the second and third compartments, the others blank, g.e. (spines slightly darkened). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Way We Live Now. London: Chapman and Hall, 1875. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (218 x 127mm.) 40 plates by Luke Fildes. (Some waviness to both text-blocks.) Contemporary half-morocco (fading to board edges, slight warping to lower cover of vol. 2.) - And a two volume novel (Anthony Trollope 'Orley Farm', first edition, illustrated by J.E. Millais, 1862, 8vo). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection (4).

TROLLOPE, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her; London: Chapman and Hall, 1864. 2 vols. in 1, first edition, 8vo (214 x 132mm.) Numerous plates. Near contemporary marbled half-calf (some fading to the cloth). - And six more volumes of Trollope novels, four first editions (including 'He Knew He Was Right', 2 vols., 1869, 8vo). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection (7).

TROLLOPE, Anthony. [The Works.] [Various publishers]: 1870-1911. 47 vols. mixed editions, 8vo (184 x 111mm.) (Some browning to preliminaries, spotting to fore-edges.) Contemporary half-calf, the spines in six compartments with raised bands, morocco lettering pieces in the second and third compartments, the others with repeat decoration in gilt (most of the boards with some warping, two or three with some loss to the marbled paper). Note: comprises thirty-nine novels in forty-two volumes, three collections of short stories: 'Tales of All Countries', 'Lotta Schmidt' and 'Frau Frohmann' and two works of non-fiction: 'Thackeray' and 'An Editor's Tales'. Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplates to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection (47).

SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. Studies in Song. London: Chatto & Windus, 1880. First edition, presentation signature by Algernon Swinburne to the half-title ('To Lord Houghton, in grateful recollection of April 1864, A.C. Swinburne'), 8vo (193 x 120mm.) 32pp. publisher's advertisements to rear dated 'Oct 1880'. (Spotting to preliminaries.) Original green cloth with gilt borders, gilt titling to spine (softening to spine ends). - And four further volumes by Swinburne. Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplates to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection (5).

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments… edited by Mrs. Shelley. London: Edward Moxon, 1840. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (199 x 120mm.) Original cloth blocked in blind (bumped to spine ends with minor loss to top of vol. 2). - And three further volumes about Shelley. Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplates to the front pastedowns); The West Horsley Place Collection (5).

AUSTEN, Jane. [The Works.] London & Toronto: J.M. Dent, 1922. 6 vols., 8vo (183 x 200mm.) Colour frontispieces with tissue-guards, illustrations by Charles E. Brock. (Mild toning.) Contemporary red half-calf, the spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third compartments, the others with repeat gilt decoration, t.e.g (some rubbing and scuffing to the leather). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. - Constance GARNETT (translator). [The Works.] London: William Heinemann, 1913-1919. 11 vols. Mixed editions, 8vo (179 x 118mm.) (Some spotting to preliminaries.) Contemporary half-vellum, bound by Hatchards, green morocco lettering pieces to the spines, t.e.g. (some soiling). Note: comprises vol. 1: 'The Brothers Karamazov', 1915; vol. 2: 'The Idiot', 1913; vol. 3: 'The Possessed', 1913; vol. 4: 'Crime and Punishment', 1914; vol. 5: 'The House of the Dead', 1915; vol. 6: 'The Insulted and Injured', 1915; vol. 7: 'A Raw Youth', 1916; vol. 8: 'The Eternal Husband', 1918: vol. 9: 'The Gambler', 1917; vol. 10: 'White Nights'; vol. 11: 'An Honest Thief', 1919. Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplates to the front endpaper); The West Horsley Place Collection (11).

TURGENEV, Ivan. - Constance GARNETT (translator). [The Works.] London: William Heinemann, 1894-1899. 15 vols., first translated editions, 8vo (170 x 108mm.) (Some spotting to preliminaries and fore-edges.) Contemporary half-vellum, bound by Hatchards, green morocco lettering pieces to the spines (some soiling). Note: comprises vol. 1: 'Rudin', 1894; vol. 2: 'The House of Gentlefolk', 1894; vol. 3: 'On the Eve', 1895; vol. 4: 'Father's and Children', 1895; vol. 5: 'Smoke', 1896; vol. 6 & 7: 'Virgin Soil', 1896; vol. 8 & 9: 'A Sportsman's Sketches', 1896; vol. 10: 'Dream Tales', 1897; vol. 11: 'The Torrents of Spring', 1897; vol. 12: 'A Lear of the Steppes', 1898; vol. 13: 'Diary of a Superfluous Man', 1897; vol. 14: 'A Desperate Character', 1899; vol. 15: 'The Jew', 1899. - And one additional copy of vol. 11 'The Torrents of Spring'. Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedowns); The West Horsley Place Collection (16).

BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The Novels of the Brontë Sisters… edited by Temple Scott. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. 12 vols., the Thornton edition, 8vo (209 x 135mm.) Titles in red and black, numerous plates, tissue-guards. Original green cloth, gilt titling to spines (softening to spine ends). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

AUSTEN, Jane. [The Works.] London: Grant Richards, 1898. 10 vols., Winchester edition, 8vo (208 x 135mm.) Titles in red and black with vignette. (Browning to preliminaries.) Original green cloth with gilt leaf and vine motif to spines, t.e.g. (bumped to extremities, fading to all spines). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

[DISRAELI, Benjamin.] The Voyage of Captain Popanilla. London: Henry Colburn, 1829. New edition, 8vo (186 x 115mm.) Title-page inscribed in ink, presumably by the author Benjamin Disraeli, four drawings by Daniel Maclise. (Damp-staining to preliminaries and margins of the plates.) 19th century red half-morocco (some wrinkling and wear to the covers). - And three more volumes (Disraeli's 'Endymion', 3 vols., 1880, first edition, 8vo). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedowns); The West Horsley Place Collection (4).

HARDY, Thomas. A Group of Nobel Dames. London: Macmillan & Co., 1907. Macmillan's Pocket Hardy, signed by Thomas Hardy in an ink inscription on the front free endpaper: 'To Lady Crewe, from Thomas Hardy', small 8vo (175 x 105mm.) (Some browning and damp discolouring to the initial leaves.) Original red limp calf elaborately tooled in gilt to the spine and upper cover (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

HARDY, Thomas. The Wessex Novels. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895-1897 and London & New York: Harpers & Brothers, 1898. 17 vols. only (of 18), 8vo (198 x 135mm.) Engraved frontispieces by H. Macbeth Raeburn to all volumes. (Some spotting to preliminaries and occasionally to fore-edges.) Near contemporary blue half-morocco, the spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third the others with repeating floral gilt motifs (rubbing to extremities). Note: vols. 1-9, 13-15 and vol. 17 are published by Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., vols. 10-12 and 16 are published by Harpers & Brothers 1898. Provenance: Lady Crewe (a gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper to 'Margaret, Countess of Crewe' from Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lawley, the journalist and Liberal politician who had to resign office following a financial scandal. A tipped-in letter from Francis Lawley asks whether Lord Crewe has received the gift of these seventeen volumes, having clearly heard nothing three months after dropping them off with his wife). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

DU MAURIER, Daphne. Rebecca. London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1938. First edition, 8vo (195 x 123mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries, rear leaves and fore-edge.) Original cloth (spine lean, bumped to extremities, slight soiling). - And nine volumes of literary fiction (including D.H. Lawrence's 'The Prussian Officer', first edition, 1914, 8vo). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection (10).

FORSTER, E.M. The Celestial Omnibus… and other stories. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. First edition, limited to 1000 copies, 8vo (184 x 131mm.) Pictorial endpapers. (Moderate spotting, more so to the preliminaries.) Original grey cloth with decorative gilt design by Roger Fry (lightly bumped to extremities). - And twelve more novels, mainly first editions (including Evelyn Waugh's 'Black Mischief', 1932, 8vo). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection (12).

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (illustrator). - Fyodor DOSTOYEVSKY. Poor Folk… translated from the Russian by Lena Milman with an Introduction by George Moore. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. 8vo (194 x 116mm.) 15pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Spotting to front and rear pastedowns.) Original cloth blocked in yellow and black to a design by Aubrey Beardsley (bumped to extremities, soiling to covers). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection. - And fifteen literary volumes (16).

FORSTER, E.M. A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold, 1924. First edition, 8vo (190 x 119mm.) 3pp. advertisements to rear. (Considerable spotting to initial and rear leaves and fore-edge.) Original red cloth (mild sunning to spine, small mark to upper cover). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (ink name to the front free endpaper); The West Horsley Place Collection.

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1896. First edition, 8vo (190 x 122mm.) Frontispiece with tissue-guard plus 23 plates, 8pp. publisher's advertisements to rear dated '10.02.96'. (Spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves.) Original cloth blocked in black, lettered in gilt (some spine lean, a few odd marks). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.