Bacon Francis Notes by W Aldis Wright (5 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Covers have light wear with small piece missing from title label.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus, 8vo, fair to good, published in the Golden Treasury series. Burgundy leather, banded spine, soft bevelled boards with decorative grape-leaf gilt, faded spine and gilt, gilt page edges, abrasions, small losses base of spine, both boards partially detached, binding else sound, fep partially detached, mild foxing early and late, occasional spot elsewhere, very good page condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing in this format. Large paper edition, one of 500 copies printed on 29th November 1862. Title page and prelims foxed. Contemporary inscription on prelim with chocolate brown endpapers. Original green cloth with Golden Treasury series medallion stamped in gilt on front board. Minor splits to head and base of hinge of spine, otherwise a very nice copy.

HardBack. Condition: Good. No Jacket. New Edition Thus, Macmillan 1878. Thick Royal 8vo. xxxi 388pp. Coloured marbled double endpapers. Illustrated title page, plain blank chapter break leaves. one with attractive copperplate inscription of Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation. Internally very good clean tight sound square, bookplate to pastedown with scoring, no further inscriptions of any kind. Bound in bright gilt lettered ruled and illustrated full calf leather gently rubbed to extremities, lower and foreedge of leaves coloured marbling to match. Great shelf presence featuring 5 raised gilt ruled bands, 5 elaborately gilt embossed compartments, leather label very gently chipped.

Reprint. Engraving on title-page, title-page printed in red and black Title-page cut a little close with text just shaved at foot, a little damage to sides and spine slightly darkened, a little foxing to end-papers, otherwise a very nice copy; book-label comprising two intertwined letter "S" surmounted by a coronet Full blue morocco, upper cover gilt sun-like ornament enclosing a coronet and initials "M.S", spine with raised bands and lettered and dated in gilt, turn-ins with gilt fillets and a roll of palmettes, by Worsfold.