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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. 1st Thus and Limited Edition, Constable 1924-34. Limited to 675 sets. 10 Ten Volume Complete set, like bound in original gilt lettered cloth. Facsimile Reprint 1st Edition title pages. Captioned tissue-guarded frontispieces to each volume in excellent order, printed with wide margins on thick creamy paper. Internally very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or ownership marks of any kind, remarkably free from foxing or browning, well held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges. Bound in very good bright gilt lettered original purple cloth with the gentlest of light occasional dusting to boards, great shelf presence with very mild rubbing to and slight sunning not in the least intrusive to spines, featuring bright gilt lettering to black Morocco leather labels on purple cloth, top edge very bright gilt, rest attractively deckle edge untrimmed. A most handsome and increasingly uncommon Limited Edition Set.

Hardback. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: No DW. 1 Biographical Introduction and Headlong Hall 2 Melincourt 3 Nightmare Abbey and Maid Marian 4 The Misfortunes of Elphin and Crotchet Castle 5 Gryll Grange 6 Poems 7 Poems and Plays 8 Essays, Memoirs, Letters and Unfinished Novels 9 Critical and Other Essays 10 Dramatic Criticisms and Translations and Other Essays. Published between 1924 and 1934 in plum cloth with gold on black title labels. Slight marks to endpapers of volume 1. Else a nice clean tight set showing minor signs of wear and/or age. Books are is in very good (or better) condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY (GB 2021 £8) Packed weight 7500g. NOT AVAILABLE OVERSEAS.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: near fine. Limited Edition. Octavo, 10 volumes, complete. A fine, sharp set in the publisher's full plum cloth with black spine labels, titled in gilt. Many pages in some volumes unopened. In the original grey paper dust jackets, near fine, with occasional edge nicks and abrasions, small area of scuffing to the spine on volume X, and mild, even rubbing to the spines generally, but overall very nice. A handsome set, one of 675 produced, which includes some illustrations, some from artistic portraits of the author and related figures, along with some nice reproductions of documents relating to his life and work. Peacock, a master of English satire, was by day an official with the British East India Company. He also maintained a close and mutually influential friendship with Percy Bysshe Shelley. This lovely set is scarce in commerce, and most appealing in its original dust jackets.