a)
William Shakespeare, The Handy-Volume Shakespeare, London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, Circa 1884
A matching set of 13 volumes that include all 37 of Shakespeare's plays, Poems and Sonnets, and a Glossary, housed in a presentation box.
Volume I: The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Comedy of Errors
Volume II: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Volume III: Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night: or What You Will, Love's Labour's Lost
Volume IV: As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, A Winter's Tale
Volume V: Taming of The Shrew, All's Well That Ends Well, King John
Volume VI: King Richard II, King Henry IV Part 1 and 2
Volume VII: King Henry V, King Henry VI Part 1 and 2
Volume VIII: King Henry VI Part 3, King Richard III, King Henry VIII
Volume IX: Julius Caesar, Antony And Cleopatra, Troilus And Cressida
Volume X: Othello: The Moor of Venice, Coriolanus, Timon Of Athens
Volume XI: Hamlet, Romeo And Juliet, Pericles: Prince of Tyre
Volume XII: King Lear, Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus
Volume XII: Macbeth, Poems and Sonnets, Glossary
About 350 pages; Red limp leather, blind stamped borders to front and rear boards, gilt title and logo to spines, all edges gilt, matching red leather covered box
Book size: 5 x 3.4 in (12.7 x 8.6 cm) (each)
Box size: 3.1 x 9.1 x 5.6 in (7.8 x 23.1 x 14.2 cm)
b)
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, London: MacMillan & Co, 1896
A twenty-two volume edition
Volume I: The Brook and other Poems
Volume II: Locksley hall and other poems
Volume III: Juvenilia
Volume IV: The Death of Oenone and other poems
Volume V: Will waterproof and other poems
Volume VI: A dream of fair woman and other poems
Volume VII: The Lady of shallot and other poems
Volume VIII: Demeter and other poems
Volume IX: The Lover's tale and other poems
Volume X: Rizpah and other poems
Volume XI: The spinster's sweet arts and other poems
Volume XII: The Voyage of Maeldune and other poems
Volume XIII: Enoch Arden and other poems
Volume XIV: Maud and other poems
Volume XV-XVI: The Princes a medley
Volume XVII-XXII: Idylls of the King 1 to 6 parts
About 90 pages in each volume; 22 red leather-bound volumes in a presentation case, original red limp leather, top edges gilt, deckled edges front and bottom edges, authors logo in gilt on upper cover, titles in gilt on spine
Book size: 5.2 x 4.2 in (13.2 x 10.6 cm) (each)
Box size: 5.75 x 8.75 x 4.5 in (14.3 x 22.4 x 11.7 cm)
c)
William Makepeace Thackeray, The Novels of William Makepeace Thackeray, London: Smith, Elder and company, 1891
A ten-volume edition
Volume 1-II: Vanity fair
Volume III-IV: The Virginians
Volume V-VI: The Pendennis
Volume VII-VIII: Philip
Volume IX-X: The Newcome's
About 300 pages in each volume; Original green cloth, with authors logo on front board in gilt, titles on spine in gilt, top edges gilt, deckled bottom, and fore edges
Book size: 6.5 x 4.5 in (16.5 x 11.4 cm) (each)
Slip Case Size: 8.6 x 5.5 x 6.1 in (21.8 x 13.9 x 15.4 cm)
d)
Thomas de Quincey, Essays, London: Gresham Publishing and Company, Circa 1900s
A twelve-volume edition
Volume I: Essays of Elia by Charles lamb
Volume II: Essays by Montaigne
Volume III: Sesame and Lilies and unto this last by John Ruskin
Volume IV: Essays by William Hazlitt
Volume V: Utopia by Thomas more
Volume VI: Imaginary conversations by Walter Savage Landor
Volume VII: Johnson's table talk by Boswell
Volume VIII: Essays or counsels civil and moral by Francis bacon
Volume IX: The imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
Volume X: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Volume XI: Walden or the life in the woods by Henry David Thoreau
Volume XII: Essays by Thomas Carlyle
About 300 pages in each volume; Green cloth; Original gilt device on front board, decorated spines in gilt, decorated endpapers, top edges gilt; original publishers presentation box
Book Size: 5.5 x 3.6 in (13.9 x 9.1 cm) (each)
Box size: 9.2 x 6 x 4 in (23.3 x 15.2 x 10.1 cm)
e)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Author's Pocket Volume Edition of The Complete works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, London: George Routledge and sons, 1878
A eleven-volume edition
Volume I: Voices of the Night and Earlier Poems, &c.
Volume II: Evangeline & Miles Standish
Volume III: The Song of Hiawatha
Volume IV: The Spanish Student and Judas Maccabaeus
Volume V: Translations, Songs, and Sonnet
Volume VI: Tales of a Wayside Inn
Volume VII: The Divine Tragedy
Volume VIII: The Golden Legend
Volume IX: The New England Tragedies
Volume X: Birds of Passage
Volume XI: Flower-de-Luce, Masque of Pandora, &c.
2256 pp in 11 volumes; Original red cloth, coloured edges, titles on spine in gilt, in original publisher's presentation box
Book size: 5 x 3.5 in (12.7 x 8.8 cm) (each)
Box size: 7.6 x 5.7 x 4 in (19.3 x 14.4 x 10.1 cm)
NON-EXPORTABLE
A Set of 5 Boxed Set books by William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas de Quincey and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow