£80 - £120
Thackeray (William Makepeace) The History of Henry Esmond Esq.
A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne.
London, printed by Bradbury & Evens for Smith, Elder & Co., 1852, first edition and an apparent third issue, with author's name on half-titles only, comma after 'Company' on title of vol. III, and 'o' of Cornhill dropped below the line in title of vol. II, three volumes, bound in gilt-ruled quarter-Morocco, armorial bookplate of Richard Heywood Heywood-Jones and ticket of Walter Spencer, Bookseller of New Oxford St. to pastdowns
Stephens (Walter) Blackfriars; or, The Monks of Old.
London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864, three volumes, attractively bound in tooled green half-calf, marbled edges, armorial bookplate of William McIlwraith
Galt (John) The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy.
Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1823, three volumes, later quarter-Morocco, bookplate of George G. Stevenson
Cervantes (Miguel de) The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Charles Jarvis (trans.), London, Lackington, Allen et al., 1811, four volumes, paper-covered boards, 12mo (13)
Richard Heywood Heywood-Jones (1853-1900), proprietor of Badsworth Hall, Pontefract. He was struck dead by lightning during a storm at Harrogate.
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