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Title
Select Works
of
10 Volumes
[New or Later Editions – Fine Half Leather Binding by Sotheran & Co. – Incomplete Set]
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Author
George John WHYTE-MELVILLE
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Year of Publication
1890
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Publisher
London: Longmans Green and Co. or Ward Lock and Co.
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For full description see below - after
all photographs
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Description:
London: Longmans Green and Co., 1890 or undated. New or Later Editions.
Select works of George John Whyte-Melville. An incomplete set.
Uniformly bound in half calf bindings by Sotheran & Co. Externally, very elegant with gilt titles, gilt decoration to the compartments, page edges marbled, and marbled end papers.
Pages generally tanned with foxing generally to the start and end of volumes.
In 10 [of 27] Volumes, as follows:
The Gladiators, General Bounce, The Queen's Maries, Good for Nothing, Bones and I, Holmby House, The Interpreter, Satanella, Uncle John, and Sarchedon.
George John Whyte Melville was a Scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet. After translating Horace in 1850, he published his first novel, Digby Grand, in 1853, which was a huge success.
He went on to publish twenty-one novels. Whyte-Melville was a popular writer in the main genres, that of historical romance and hunting. He became a popular writer on hunting with most of his heroes or heroines active or would-be hunters.
His work was said to inspire the novels of Henry Hawley Smart and the verse of John Woodcock Graves.
Provenance – no bookplates or signatures.
Approximately 7 ¼ inches tall.
Condition Report
Externally
- Spine – fine condition – nice bright gilt titles and decoration to clean and bright morocco leather.
- Joints – fine condition – sound.
- Corners – very good condition – gently worn and bumped.
- Boards – very good condition – marbled, minor marks and wear.
- Page edges – very good condition – marbled, top edge darkened.
- See above and photos.
Internally
- Hinges – very good condition – sound.
- Paste downs – very good condition – marbled paper.
- Free end papers – very good condition – marbled paper.
- Title – good condition – tanned with minor foxing.
- Pages – good condition – tanned with minor foxing.
- Binding – fine condition – attractive.
- See photos.
Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1890
Binding: Hardback
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