LEATHER BOUND BOOKS and SETS FOR SALE |

I have a good number of leather bound sets and books in the shop that would adorn the shelves of your library. Below are some currently for sale, and details. You may click on the smaller gallery images for larger views. More leather volumes will be added here as time permits. Thank you, RAY

1876 – 3/4 LEATHER – CHARLES KINGSLEY – TWO VOLUMES

Offered are these two uniformly bound volumes with raised bands and six tooled compartments with some light edgewear, and fading to spines as is typical of the dyes used on this leather. The two volumes are:

ALTON LOCKE, TAILOR AND POET. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY – New Edition with a prefatory memoir by Thomas Hughes – Macmillan and Co., London, 437 pages with some light foxing

TWO YEARS AGO – Eighth Edition – Macmillan And Co., 495 pages with some light foxing

Price for the set – $125 – (Order Number 73095)

RIVIERE BINDING – FULL LEATHER – THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD by OLIVER GOLDSMITH: THE CHOICE BOOKS

Published by George G. Harrap and Co., London, no date given for this reprint, but most likely early 20th century. Full leather binding with raised bands, gilt stampings, all edges gilt (AEG), and marbled endpapers, 287 pages. Stamped is “Bound by Riviere & Son” which means bound after 1880. This little volume measures about 3 5/8 by 5 1/4 inches. As is typical with the green dyes used on leather, due do sun and atmosphere the spine has changed color to brown. BUT, sitting on the shelf looking at the handsome spine you would not know the boards are green.

Price for the volume – $85 – (Order No. eb1598)

1869 – 3/4 LEATHER – SIR J. T. COLERIDGE – A MEMOIR OF THE REV. JOHN KEBLE, M.A. LATE VICAR OF HURSLEY

Published by James Parker and Co. Oxford and London, Second Edition with corrections and additions. Nice clean and tight set, marbled boards, endpapers and book block edges. Five raised bands, thus six compartments on spine. Volume I, pages 1-278; Volume II, pages 279-620, ads.

Price for the set – $145 – (Order Number 73096)

1857 – 3/4 LEATHER – THOMAS CARLYLE – TWO BIOGRAPHIES – LIFE OF FRIEDRICH SCHILLER (1825) and LIFE OF JOHN STERLING (1851)

Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1857, 415 pages. Nice clean and tight copy, 3/4 leather with marbled boards and endpapers, all edges gilt (AEG). Some light rubbing on the marbled boards. Bound by R. Nelson, Glascow.

Price for the volume – $95 – (Order Number 73097)

1900 – 3/4 LEATHER – OLIVER CROMWELL: A HISTORY by SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH

Published by R. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 524 pages. Fifth Impression – Third Edition – “Comprising a Narrative of His Life, With Extracts from His Letters and Speeches and an Account of the Political, Religious and Military Affairs of England During the Time.

Nice clean and tight copy, green leather, 5 raised bands with 6 compartments with nice gilt stampings, marbled boards and endpapers – some wear lower corners and on marbled paper on foredge of boards as seen in images.