Various Authors

The Workman Collection

Group of first editions including presentation copies of British literature.

• Sold as a set of 31.

Richard James Barham [Thomas Ingoldsby] (English).

The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby, Esquire.

London: Richard Bentley, 1840-1847

3 volumes.

Octavo. 

Black and brown pictorial engraved title pages in all three volumes by C. Cook and I.S. Gwilt, 17 plates by

George Cruickshank, John Leech and others, 2 portraits, half titles.

Volume I with page 236 blank and slip inserted.

Volume II with 4 pages of publisher's advertisements end. 

Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, brown cloth boards with blind pictorial floral ovals, gilt titles on upper boards and blind ruled spines.

First edition, first state of all volumes. 

Housed in chemise, in a brown morocco slipcase with blind ruled boards and gilt ruled titles on the spine.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (English). 

The Christmas Hirelings. 

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1894.

Duodecimo.

Includes frontispiece at title and illustrated throughout text by F. H. Townsend.

8 pages publisher’s ads at rear and ornamental endpapers. 

First edition.

Bound with gilt decorated titles on the spine of quarter blue morocco backed light yellow linen boards with pictorial titles in red on front.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (English). 

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger. 

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1896.

Octavo.

First edition.

Bound in black cloth boards with pictorial colored flowers stamped on upper board with gilt titles, and gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt.

James White [George Cruikshank] (English).

The Adventures of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin; Nights at Mess; and Other Tales.

London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1836.

Duodecimo.

Presentation copy with From the Publisher on half-title.

First edition.

Bound in publisher's gray-green textured cloth, paper title label to spine.

Housed in a custom clamshell case.

John Davidson (English).

Fleet Street Eclogues. 

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. 

Octavo.

Half-title, statement of limitation of 300 copies, errata slip tipped in after contents, 2 pages publisher's advertisements at end.

Bound in original black cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine.

John Galsworthy (English).

Swan Song. 

London: William Heinemann, 1928.

Octavo.

Inscribed by Galsworthy on front endpaper. 

First edition.

Bound in green cloth boards, stamped and lettered in gilt on upper and spine, in pictorial dust jacket.

George Gissing (English). 

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories. 

London: Archibald Constable and Company, Ltd., 1906. 

Octavo.

First edition, first impression. 

Bound in original navy boards with gilt ruled titles stamped on upper board and gilt titles on spine.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (Canadian).

The Clockmaker...

London: Richard Bentley, 1838.

Octavo.

First edition.

Bound in original grab boards and paper label to spine.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (Canadian).

The Letter Bag of the Great Western...

London: Richard Bentley, 1840.

First edition.

Bound in original brown ribbed cloth, covers stamped in blind, upper cover pictorially gilt and spine gilt-lettered.

John Hilton (English). 

Random Harvest. 

London: Macmillan & Co., 1941. 

Octavo.

First edition.

Bound in original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, originally pictorially printed jacket.

Aldous Huxley (English). 

Proper Studies. 

London: Chatto & Windus, 1927. 

Octavo.

First edition.

Bound in publisher’s green cloth boards ruled in blind, with gilt titles and ruling on spine, in crisp, cream-colored dust jacket with green ruling and titles on front and spine, and publisher’s advertisements on verso.

Housed in a collectors’s green morocco backed, green cloth slipcase with gilt ruling and gilt titles stamped onto a spine with five raised bands. 

John Hilton (English).

Random Harvest.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1941.

Octavo.

First UK edition.

Bound in publisher's kelly green buckham boards with titles gilt to spine in pictorial dust jacket.

G.P.R. James (English).

Forest Days. A Romance of Old Times. 

London: Saunders and Otley, 1843. 

Octavo.

3 volumes. 

First edition. 

Bound in blue cloth backed gray boards with titles pasted on spine.

Housed in a navy morocco backed clamshell with gilt ruling and gilt titles with decorative motif on spine. 

Richard Jeffries (English).

Amaryllis at the Fair. A Novel. 

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. 

Octavo.

First edition. 

Bound with charcoal endpapers, half title, in original pictorial dark green cloth boards with daffodil in black and light green on upper and spine with gilt titles.

Jerome K. Jerome (English).

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). 

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890. 

Octavo.

Illustrated throughout by Arthur Frederics, with decorated endpapers. 

Originally published in Bristol in 1889, this is the first American trade edition. 

Bound with blue pictorial boards with navy illustration, gilt titles stamped on upper and spine. 

Walter Savage Landor (English).

Pericles and Aspasia. 

London: Saunders and Otley, 1836. 

2 volumes.

Octavo.

1 page ad on the back of half title in vol. I, and 4 pages of ads at rear of vol. II. 

P. 248, final line states “tasking” rather than “taxing” and P. 328, line 5 reads, “talk of” rather than “talk to.” 

First edition. 

Bound in original quarter blue morocco backed gray boards with title labels pasted down on spines. 

Housed in a custom collector’s full red morocco slipcase with individual morocco chemise cases stamped with gilt numbers couched inside, gilt titles stamped on the spine that bears five raised bands. 

Richard Le Gallienne (English). 

The Book Bills of Narcissus. 

London: Privately printed by Frank Murray, 1891.

Duodecimo.

First edition, limited to 250 copies, of which 240 were sold. 

Bound in original stiff cream-colored French paper wrappers with black titles on upper, folded over card wrappers.

Frederick Marryat (English).

Masterman Ready; or, The Wreck of the Pacific. Written for Young People. 

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman’s, 1841. 

Octavo. 

Presentation copy, gift inscribed by the author on front endpapers of all three volumes. 

Includes engraved frontispieces and numerous illustrations throughout. 

Publisher's advertisements in the rear of each volume (dated October 1842 in vols. I and II, and January 1843 in vol. III). 

First edition. 

Bound by Westleys and Clark with their label on lower pastedown in vol. I. In original publisher’s black cloth with blind pictorial motif stamped on recto and verso all, gilt titles on spines. 

Housed in a navy morocco backed cloth clamshell with gilt ruling, gilt titles with compartments, two with teal morocco, on spine with four raised bands. 

Dinah Maria Mulock [Mrs. G.L. Craik] (English). 

John Halifax, Gentleman. 

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1856. 

3 volumes.

Octavo.

Includes publisher’s advertisements at the rear of each. 

First edition. 

Bound in publisher’s brown cloth boards ruled in blind and blind stamped with decorative floral motif, decorative gilt titles on spine with circular motif in blind. 

Housed in a brown morocco backed collector’s clamshell case with gilt ruling, git titles on spine with floral motifs and five raised bands. 

Michael Scott (English). 

The Cruise of the Midge. 

London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1836. 

2 volumes.

Duodecimo.

Yellow endpapers with early bookplates from the library of noted book collector, E. Hubert Litchfield, with his bookplate in each volume on upper pastedowns. 

First edition. 

Bound in publisher’s black boards ruled in decorative blind and pictorial gilt titles on spine. 

Housed in a collector’s green morocco backed cloth clamshell with gilt ruling, gilt titles on spine with four raised bands. 

Michael Scott (English). 

Tom Cringle’s Log. 

2 volumes.

London: William Blackwood, 1833. 

Duodecimo.

Bound in dark green pebbled boards with gilt titles on spine. 

Housed in a collector’s green morocco backed cloth clamshell with gilt ruling, gilt titles on spine with four raised bands. 

Sadleir 1303.

Wolff 3613. 

NCBEL 1062.