Ashley Library by Wise Thomas (32 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. University library withdrawl, still tight and bright in blue paper-covered boards. One of 500 copies. ; 72 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine Condition. 1st. One of 500 copies. Bound in the publisher's original light blue boards with the front cover and spine stamped in black.

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Volume X--One of only 200 copies printed. Originally published in a set of eleven, this is Volume X. Original buckram cream cloth with gilt decorations to the front board and spine. This copy is in very good condition. Only the outside buckram cloth at the spine is slightly age toned, the interior is as new. Handmade paper with the original tissue guard covering the photo of collector Thomas James Wise. Full gold Gilt laden top edge and uncut fore edge and text block. Hand sewn binding. Hand made paper and with copies of original letters from the authors (Byron Browning, etc) Bibliographies of publications of some of the finest authors in English literature, together with reproductions of their title and copyright pages and descriptions of first editions. A wonderful book for any bibliophile's library, with many titles from 1600 and on.

NY 1934. 7 x 4.5, boards, 72 pp, cover a bit worn. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES.

Willam H. Smith, New York, 1934. 72 Seiten, Pappband mit Klarsichtumschlag (Name auf Vorsatz)--- - Text englisch - 156 Gramm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. One of only two hundred copies; some wear to boards at top and bottom of spine and at corners; bound in cream cloth with gold decoration on front and back cover and on spine and gold lettering on spine; darkening to cloth on spine; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. v, 208 p., interspersed with plates. 27 cm. B&w plates. Cream cloth with gold impressing, bevelled edges, top edge gilt. A little soiling to cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. xiii, 267 p., interspersed with plates. 27 cm. B&w plates. Cream cloth with gold impressing, bevelled edges, top edge gilt. A little soiling to cloth.

Limited edition of 200 copies. Very Good hardback, no dustwrapper. Light rubbing and bumping to corners, light foxing to pastedowns. Overall a clean, tight and bright copy. xxii 200 pp 4to cream buckram with bevelled edges. Gilt decoration to front and gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece (Mrs Thomas J Wise) with tissue guard. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale.

Limited edition of 200 copies. Very Good hardback, no dustwrapper. Light bumping to corners, sporadic foxing throughout. A tight copy with unmarked text. This is a composite volume. The spine title has 'Vol. V' whereas the contents are of Volume VI. However, the introduction by E V Lucas to volume V is bound in. It lacks the intro to volume VI, the frontispiece and the plate at the end. x 218 pp 4to cream buckram with bevelled edges. Gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 448. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1936 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 2 Language: English Pages: 448 Volume 2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 11 volumes. A reprint of the edition of1922-1936, original cloth, a few marks to spines, but a good set, large 8vo, frontispiece or portrait in each volume, plates and facsimiles throughout, with the British Museum shelf number against each item in their possession,

11 Vols., large 8vo, frontispiece or portrait in each volume, plates and facsimiles throughout, with the British Museum shelf number against each item in their possession, (all but about 240 items), orig. cloth, a couple of spines lightly spotted. "The catalogue of the Ashley Library, which was acquired by the British Museum, is a useful reference work, especially in English nineteenth-century first editions, which are represented in unrivalled completeness. The late seventeenth and eighteenth-century collections are also very full".Breslauer and Folter, 151. ". the most remarkable collection of rare books and manuscripts in modern English literature put together by a single collector in Great Britain in the hundred years before 1850 and 1950".Simon Nowell Smith (introduction).

Hardcover. Condition: with no dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Ex library, one volume has spine damage; internally very good. ; Eleven volumes, complete set, limited to 200 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Eleven volumes. Small quartos. Illustrated. Buff colored cloth gilt. Boards a trifle soiled, a just about fine set. Postage at cost.

11 volumes (the 11th supplied from another set). Illustrated. 4to, publisher's gilt-lettered white buckram, t.e.g. First edition; one of 200 sets. A tight, sound, very attractive set with the slightest of sunning to the spines. Inscribed by Thomas James Wise for Edward Lawrence Doheny, Jan. 17th, 1933, with the Doheny in each volume except the last. Additional postage applicable for this multiple volume set.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 512. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1936 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume v.3 Language: English Pages: 512 Volume v.3.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 474. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1936 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume v.1 Language: English Pages: 474 Volume v.1.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 476. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1936 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume v.4 Language: English Pages: 476 Volume v.4.

The Dunedin Press, Ltd., Edinburgh/London, 1930. 224 Seiten, Grobschnitt, mit einem Frontispiz und einigen Tafeln, Leineneinband mit goldgeprägtem Rücken- und Deckeltitel, quart, (etwas fleckig/teils mit geringen Randläsuren)---- Eins von 50 Exemplaren / Text englisch - 1785 Gramm.

The Dunedin Press, Ltd., Edinburgh/London, 1936. 200 Seiten mit einem Frontispiz und einigen Tafeln, Leineneinband mit goldgeprägtem Rücken- und Deckeltitel, quart, (teils gering fleckig/teils mit leichten Randläsuren)---- Eins von 200 Exemplaren / Text englisch - 1335 Gramm.

First Edition. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters. Collected by Thomas James Wise. Vol. XI [only]. Introduction by Arundell Esdaile. Pp. xxiv+204(last Ashley library device, colophon), frontispiece portrait [Mrs. Wise] with tissue guard, plus 43 plates, a couple of facsimiles in text, addenda, notes, index; cr. 4to; cream cloth over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, a trifle marked, spine faintly faded; t.e.g., others uncut; hinges reinforced, a couple of tiny edge chips, occasional light foxing; printed for private circulation only, London, 1936. First edition, being one of 200 copies on antique paper. [Todd 420b]. *Eleven volumes of the catalogue of Thomas J. Wise's Ashley Library were published from 1922 to 1936, each containing an introduction by a well-known writer of the period. This is the final volume, published after Carter & Pollard's Enquiry and shortly before Wise's death. In the Preface, Wise states that ill health prevented him from writing an Introduction to this volume. 'I could tell so many stories and relate so many incidents in connection with the acquisition of the more prominent and fascinating of the items of which it is composed, that I feel sure I could have produced a paper which would have interested many other of my fellow collectors, and perhaps have encouraged them to continue this pleasant and useful pursuit. But the serious misfortune which caused the delay in the completion of Volume XI has also rendered this impossible, and physical weakness, combined with the still ragged state of my nerves, have frustrated my hopes, and the task must be left for some future occasion' [pp. xv-xvi].

First Edition. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters. Collected by Thomas James Wise. Vol. III [only]. Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Pp. xiv+212(last Ashley library device, colophon), frontispiece with tissue guard (browned), plus 201 plates, a couple of facsimiles in text; cr. 4to; cream cloth over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, lightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, the spine slightly foxed and browned; t.e.g., others uncut; hinges reinforced, occasional faint soiling; printed for private circulation only, London, 1923. First edition, limited to 200 copies. [Todd 420b]. *Eleven volumes of the catalogue of Thomas J. Wise's Ashley Library were published from 1922 to 1936, each containing an introduction by a well-known writer of the period.

1st Edition. First edition. One of only 50 copies printed upon English Hand-made paper. Illustrated with portrait of Mrs. Wise as frontis. xxiii, 200, [4] pp. Printed in Great Britain by the Dunedin Press, Limited, Edinburgh. 1 vols. 4to. This voume came out after the Enquiry. Original linen, t.e.g., rest uncut. Fine Illustrated with portrait of Mrs. Wise as frontis. xxiii, 200, [4] pp. Printed in Great Britain by the Dunedin Press, Limited, Edinburgh. 1 vols. 4to First edition. One of only 50 copies printed upon English Hand-made paper.

First Edition. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters. Collected by Thomas James Wise. Vol. II [only, of eleven volumes]. Introduction by Augustine Birrell. Pp. xiv+216(last Ashely Library device, colophon), frontispiece with tissue guard (browned), plus 195 plates; cr. 4to; pale yellow/cream cloth over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, slightly foxed, edges a trifle rubbed, the spine slightly faded and browned; t.e.g., others uncut; hinges reinforced, a couple of tiny edge chips, a little light foxing; printed for private circulation only, London, 1922. First edition, being one of 50 copies on English hand-made paper. [Todd 420b] *With related ephemera loosely inserted, including a printed page from a catalogue listing two of the George Eliot items in this volume under the heading 'The Thomas Wise Forgeries'. A previous owner's pencilled note about his own copy of another item is on page 200.

First Edition. A list of Books printed for Private Circulation. Pp. 20(last Ashley Library device), one full page illustration; demy 12mo; blue/grey paper wrappers, stabbed and tied, upper wrapper lettered in black, long split from head of backstrip extending to second stab hole; uncut; contents detached and slightly browned, a couple of tiny edge chips; printed for private circulation, London, 1897. First edition. Todd 417b. *The third, and last, of Wise's publishing catalogues, with the printed disclaimer on the title page verso stating that the list is 'printed as a Record, not by way of Advertisement'. (However, in this copy there is a small inked tick next to 7 of the items, perhaps indicating availability?) Lists 25 printings of works by the Brownings, Ruskin, Shelley, Swinburne and others, 19 items of 'Shelleyana', and two items 'in preparation. In this copy the bottom margins are particularly wide.

First Edition. Pp. 18+[2](blank), 2 full page illustrations; demy 12mo; blue paper wrappers, stabbed and tied, upper wrapper lettered in black, large Ashley Library device in black at centre of lower wrapper, the edges a trifle rubbed, with a few small chips to top edge of lower wrapper and a couple of tiny surface grazes near fore-edge of same; uncut; leaves lightly browned, some light foxing (mainly on outer leaves); printed for private circulation, London, 1895. First edition. Todd 416b. *Wise's second list of his productions: 19 items of 'Shelleyana,' 25 other printings, and three works 'in preparation'. A printed note on the title pager verso states: 'The following list is printed as a Record, not by way of Advertisement. Books printed in short numbers for private circulation become so rapidly and entirely absorbed, that it is exceedingly difficult to obtain information regarding them when such is required for bibliographical or other purposes. Hence the necessity for the present Catalogue'. However, Todd suggests the Ashely Library lists were 'designed to advertise what was then available, for a consideration, to interested bibliophiles' [Todd (Various Extraordinary Books), p. 11].

Vol. II [only, of two volumes]. Pp. xiv+166+[2](Ashley Library device, verso blank), 2 photogravure plates with tissue guards (portrait of Wise and interior view of the Ashley Library), plus 65 full page facsimile title pages, several smaller text facsimiles; med. 4to; later qr. maroon morocco, rebacked, with the original gilt lettered and ruled spine (slightly grazed) laid on, green cloth boards, a trifle marked and rubbed; a.e.g.; free endpapers offset, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; printed for private circulation only, London, 1908. [One of only 12 trial copies]. Todd 419b [describing the 2 volumes.]. *Lacking Volume I. Inscribed by the compiler on the upper free endpaper: 'Frank Sabin, Esq with kindest regards from Thos. J. Wise'. (Frank T. Sabin was a rare book and autograph dealer, based in London). According to Seymour de Ricci, English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts (Cambridge, 1930, p. 187 n.1), only twelve trial copies were printed, although some proofs or incomplete copies are known. (The University of Texas has uncorrected advance proofs for both volumes and incomplete advance sheets of Volume II only). Signed.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1936. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Vol:- Volume 2, Pages:- 448, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. Volume 2 448 448.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1936. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Vol:- Volume 3, Pages:- 452, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. Volume 3 452 452.