The Works of George Whyte-Melville

Name: The Works of George Whyte-Melville
Author: George Whyte-Melville

George Whyte-Melville

Published by W. Thacker and Co 1898-1902, London, 1898

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A complete set of George Whyte-Melville's works, being a limited edition run with charming illustrations throughout each volume. A limited edition set of these works from Scottish novelist and poet, George Whyte-Melville, being one of 1,050 printed by Morrison and Gibb Limited, Edinburgh.Complete in twenty-four volumes.In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with gilt stamp to the front boards.George Whyte-Melville's novels regularly revolved around field sports, such as his first work 'Digby Grand', which was originally published in 1852.Each volume is illustrated with a colour frontispiece and a number of monochrome plates, from a variety of artists such as Henry Matthew Brock and Bernard Partridge.This set contains the following titles:Volume I - Riding Recollections (1898). Eleven plates.Volume II - Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor (1898). Thirteen plates.Volume III - Uncle John: A Novel (1898). Thirteen plates.Volume IV - Market Harborough: How Mr. Sawyer Went to the Shires; Inside the Bar or Sketches at Soakington (1899). Thirteen plates.Volume V - Contraband or A Losing Hazard (1899). Eleven plates.Volume VI - M. or N. (1899). Thirteen plates.Volume VII - Tilbury Nogo or Passages in the Life of an Unsuccessful Man; Scotland and the Moors (1899). Thirteen plates.Volume VIII - Song and Verses: Bones and I or The Skeleton at Home (1899). Twelve plates.Volume IX - Black but Comely (1899). Nine plates.Volume X - The Brookes of Bridlemere (1899). Eleven plates.Volume XI - The White Rose (1899). Nine plates.Volume XII - Roy's Wife (1899). Eleven plates.Volume XIII - Satanella: A Story of Punchestown (1899). Thirteen plates.Volume XIV - Digby Grand: An Autobiography (1900). Eight plates.Volume XV - Sarchedon: A Legend of the Great Queen (1900). Nine plates.Volume XVI - Sister Louise or The Story of a Woman's Repentance; Rosine (1901). Nine plates.Volume XVII - Kate Coventry (1901). Nine plates.Volume XVIII - Cerise: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century (1901). Nine plates.Volume XIX - The Queen's Maries: A Romances of Holyrood (1901). Eight plates.Volume XX - Holmby House: A Tale of Old Northamptonshire. Eight plates.Volume XXI - General Bounce or The Lady and the Locusts (1901). Eight plates.Volume XXII - The Gladiators: A Tale of Rome and Judaea (1901). Nine plates.Volume XXIII - Good for Nothing or All Down Hill (1902). Eight plates.Volume XXIV - The Interpreter: A Tale of the War (1902). Eight plates.Collated, complete. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth, with gilt stamps to the front boards. Externally, generally smart, with fading to the cloth, heaviest to the spines. With heaviest instances of fading to the boards of 'Riding Recollections', 'Market Harborough', and 'Brooks of Bridlemere'. Rear hinge tender to 'Good for Nothing'. With varying degrees of damp staining to the extremities. Heaviest instances to 'Uncle John', 'Songs and Verses', 'Digby Grand', 'Kate Coventry' and 'Sarchedon'. With rubbing to the extremities, causing cloth to come away from the spines, heaviest to 'Roy's Wife', 'Kate Coventry', 'Cerise', 'Holmby House' and 'The Interpreter'. With a bookplate of one Alfred Acland to the front pastedowns of 'Katerfelto'. Internally, generally firmly bound, with the title and frontispiece leaves detached but present to 'Satanella'. With some leaves uncut. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves, and the odd spot throughout. Good Only.

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Title: The Works of George Whyte-Melville
Author: George Whyte-Melville
Publisher: W. Thacker and Co 1898-1902, London
Publication year: 1898
Condition: Good Only
Book Type: book
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: Bernard Partridge; E. Caldwell; G. H. Jalland; H. M. Brock; et al.
Item weight: 20 kilograms
Dimensions: 9" by 6"

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