Selected Works of Lewis Melville & Thomas Hardy, (40 volumes)
Lot includes: (25) volumes from the works of Lewis Melville (1874-1932); all uniformly custom bound in 3/4 olive morocco with gilt tooling and titles over light green cloth; 1-2. The Life and Letters of Laurence Stern. London: Stanley Paul, 1910. first edition. two volumes. 3-4. The First Gentleman of Europe. London: Hutchinson, 1906. first edition. two volumes. 5-6. The Beaux of the Regency. London: Hutchinson, 1908. two volumes. 7-8. The First George in Hanover and England. London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1908. first edition. two volumes. 9-10. Farmer George. London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1907. first edition. two volumes. 11-12. The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1899. first edition. two volumes. 13. The Thackeray Country. London: A & C Black, 1905. first edition. 14. The Society at Royal Tunbridge Wells--in the Eighteenth Century and After. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. first edition. 15. Brighton: Its History, Follies, and Fashions. London: Chapman Hall, 1909. first edition. 16. The Berry Papers; Being the Correspondence hitherto Unpublished of Mary and Agnes Berry (1763-1852). London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914. first edition. 17. Victorian Novelists. London: Archibald Constable and Co. 1906. first edition. 18. Some Eccentrics and a Woman. London: Martin Secker, 1911. 19. Lady Suffolk and Her Circle. London: Hutchinson, 1924. first edition. 20. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Her Life and Letters. London: Hutchinson, 1925. first edition. 21. Nell Gwyn. London: Hutchinson, 1923. second edition. 22. Beau Brummell. London: Hutchinson, 1924. first edition. 23. Maids of Honour. London: Hutchinson, 1927. first edition. 24. Regency Ladies. London: Hutchinson, 1926. 25. The Trial of the Duchess of Kingston. Edinburgh: William Hodge, 1927. first edition.
In addition: 15 volumes from the Works of Thomas Hardy all from the Anniversary Edition NY & London: Harper & Brothers, ca 1920. All are uniformly custom bound in dark blue calf with tooling and gilt titles over light blue pressed linen covered boards. 26. Far From the Madding Crowd. 27. Jude the Obscure. 28. Return of the Native. 29. Woodlanders. 30. Under the Greenwood Tree. 31. Trumpet Major. 32. Wessex Tales. 33. The Satires of Circumstance. 34-35. The Dynasts (2 vols.) 36. A Pair of Blue Eyes. 37. Wessex Poems 38. A Changed Man. 39. Life's Little Ironies. 40. Well Beloved.