MISCELLANY - James Lane ALLEN (1849-1925). A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, [October] 1901. 4to (263 x 175mm). Half title, title printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations by Hugh Thomson, many full-page. Original pictorial buckram gilt, uncut (rebacked in tan morocco, new endpapers). ONE OF 250 "LARGE PAPER" COPIES. With 41 other miscellaneous works in 43 vols. including William Makepeace Thackeray's The History of Pendennis (London, 1849-50, 2 vols., modern half calf, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM), the same author's The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century (London, 1858-59, 2 vols., modern half calf, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE), [Rudolph Erich Raspe's] The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1895, illustrations by William Strang and J. B. Clark, original tan pictorial buckram), Fanny Burney's Evelina (London, [1903], illustrations by Hugh Thomson, elaborate pictorial cloth gilt, FIRST EDITION thus), Walter Gilbey and E. D. Cuming's George Morland. His Life and Works (London, Macmillan, 1907, coloured plates, original pictorial buckram, rebacked in green morocco, NUMBER ONE OF 250 "EDITION DE LUXE" COPIES signed by Walter Gilbey) and J. Lewis Bonhote's Birds of Britain (London, 1917, plates by H. E. Dresser, modern half morocco, reprint). The lot sold not subject to return. (44)
Condition Report: George Morland - published by Adam and Charles Black. The Virginians - published by Bradbury and Evans. Pendennis - published by Bradbury and Evans.
