A wonderful collection of many of Mark Twain's works in their original cloth bindings, many of which are the first UK editions, including Huckleberry Finn, details below:
A Tramp Abroad. Illustrated by W. Fr. Brown, True Williams, B. Day and Other Artists [...]. Three Hundred and Fourteen Illustrations. London: Chatto & Windus, 1880.
The Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrim's Progress. [...]. With Two Hundred and Thirty-Four Illustrations. London: Chatto & Windus, 1881.
Roughing It and the Innocents at Home. With 200 Original Illustrations by F. A. Fraser. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883.
Life on the Mississippi. With Over 300 Illustrations. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883.
The Gilded Age, A Novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. With 212 Illustrations. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). Scene: The Mississipi Valley. Time: Forty to Fifty Years Ago. With 174 Illustrations. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. Advertisements present and dated May 1886.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. A New Edition with Illustrations by True Williams. London: Chatto & Windus, 1885.
A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. A New Edition with 220 Illustrations by Dan. Beard. London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. (x2 copies).
The American Claimant. With 81 Illustrations by Dan Beard and Hal Hurst. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892.
The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories. London: Chatto & Windus,1893.
Tom Sawyer Abroad. With 26 Illustrations by Dan. Beard. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894.
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Provenance:
Ownership inscriptions of "E. Hetcher Nov./93", "Charles E. Rhodes, "Oakleigh", Bury", "Arthur Douglas Welstead from Mum Sept'r 1887", et al.
Bookplate of Thomas Bottomley, Spring House, Shelf.
Blindstamp of "W. H. Smith & Son, London."
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Condition:
[(1), i-iv, frontis, v-xxiii, plate, 564pp., 32pp., (1)]; [(2), xxvi, 613pp., 1ff., 32pp., (1)]; [(1), xvi, 495pp., 1pp., (1)]; [(2), xxv, 561pp., 1ff., 32pp., (1)]; [(1), h.t., t.p., 1ff., ix-xxvii, 479pp., 1pp., 2ff., (1)]; [(1), xvi, 438pp., 1ff., 32pp., (1)]; [(1), xii, 309pp., 1ff., 32pp., (1)]; [(1), h.t., frontis, t.p., 1ff., xi-xvi, 525pp., 1pp., 1ff., 32pp., (1)]; [(2), h.t., frontis, t.p., 1ff., xi-xvi, 525pp., 1pp., 1ff., 32pp., (1)]; [(1), xi, 258pp., 1ff., 32pp., (1)]; [8pp., 311pp., 32pp., (1)]; [(1), viii, 208pp., 32pp., (1)].
Collated in the order as listed above. All 12 volumes in the original red publisher's cloth with character designs and scenes to boards and spines, with gilt titles. Spines sunned and partially some boards. All boards attached, most with cracked hinges and wear to joints. Bindings with some occasional rubbing and scuffing and marks. Shelf and edge wear. Some cocked. Some light shelf lean but all can stand. Page edges toned and foxed, with some leaves creased. Occasional edge tears. Text blocks fairly clean with light toning and occasional foxing. Occasional marks and inscriptions. Some uncut leaf edges. Bookplate attached in Life on the Mississippi. Printing error on pp.378 in The Gilded Age. Blank lacking in the £1,000,000 Bank-Note. One leaf lacking from The Gilded Age.
Text block cracked in some places with occasional gatherings lightly detached in places, most prominently detached and partially detached leaves are as follows: Small gathering in The Innocents Abroad, pp.1-16, detached, and xv-xxvi partially detached, pp.337-352 mostly detached, and some other gatherings partially detached. Rear blank partially detached in Roughing It. Spine partially detached at the top of A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. Front blanks mostly detached in A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
[OCLC 6939761, 191801790, 217381937, 6036003, 26193790, 12962366, 271709369, 1051730].
