The Collected Works of Charles Kingsley, 13 Volumes. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890-1896:
- Westward Ho! Or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth. (1896).
- Hereward the Wake, 'Last of the English'. (1895).
- Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face. (1896).
- Two Years Ago. (1895).
- The Water Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. (1896).
- The Roman and the Teuton, a Series of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge. (1891).
- The Hermit. (1891).
- Glaucus or the Wonders of the Shore. (1890).
- Yeast, a Problem. (1893).
- Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography. (1896).
- The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children. (1895).
- Poems. (1892).
- At Last, a Christmas in the West Indies. (1892).
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Provenance:
Bookplate of Sibyl Currie.
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Size: 130 x 188 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
Half brown calf bindings with marbled paper backed boards, brown tooled labels in compartments to the spines between raised bands with author and titles, other compartments with simple decorative gilt. Bindings rubbed and scuffed. All boards attached with minor wear to joints and hinges, rubbing along joints. Shelf and edge wear. Page edges toned with some occasional marks and dampstaining. Some of the tooled labels vary in the shade/colour. Bookplate attached to front pastedown in all volumes. Text blocks very clean with some toning and occasional foxing. Some corners turned-in. Some slight warping to some boards. Hypatia lacking the paper from the front board, and with damp staining to the front board and first few leaves, causing some tears to the front blank and creasing to the first few leaves. Damp staining to the first few leaves in a few volumes. The name on the bookplate has been rubbed out in some volumes. Small loss to the paper of the front board of The Hermit with some discolouration. Front board of At Last with an indent appearing to have been caused by a heavy circular object, with some darkening to scratches, and causing the text block as well as the rear board to be warped. Small loss to the front blank in Poems caused by dampstaining. Uncollated.
