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(Nonesuch Press) Fourteen volumes from the Nonesuch Press Place Published: London Publisher: The Nonesuch Press Date Published: 1923-1932 Description: 14 volumes. Variously illustrated. Variously sized and bound in cloth, parchment, and patterned boards. A selection of various printings including Melville, Voltaire and Dickens. Bookplates. Includes: X Sermons Preached by that Late Learned and Rev. Divine John Donne. 1923. No. 708 of 725 copies. (4to) cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. Laver, James. A Stitch in Time; or Pride Prevents a Fall. 1927. No. 700 of 1525 copies. (4to) marbled wrappers, printed cover label. Laver, James. Love's Progress or the Education of Araminta. 1929. No. 721 of 1525 copies. SImpson, Evelyn Mary, editor. Donne's Sermon of Valediction... 1932. No. 24 of 750 copies. (4to) parchment boards stamped in blind, spine lettered in black. Melville, Herman. Benito Cereno. Pictures by E. McKnight Kauffer 1926. No. 1487 of 1650 copies. (4to) cloth lettered in gilt. The Nonesuch Dickens: Retrospectus and Prospectus. 1937. (Large 8vo) blue cloth lettered in gilt. Prospectus with order forms still laid in rear. Sparrow, John, editor. The Mistress with Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley... 1926. No. 482 of 1050 copies. (Large 8vo) cloth boards, printed spine label lettered in gilt. Garnett, Edward, editor. 153 Letters from W.H. Hudson. 1923. No. 672 of 1000 copies. (Large 8vo) brown cloth, printed spine label, publisher's jacket. Keynes, Geoffrey, editor. The Complete Writings of William Blake New York: Random House Inc., [1957]. (8vo) cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Cobbett, William. The Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine... 1927. No. 194 of 1800 copies. Fontenelle, Bernard de. A Plurality of Worlds. John Glanville's Translation. 1929. No. 923 of 1200 copies. (8vo) soft vellum wrappers stamped in gilt, patterned slipcase. Beedome, Thomas. Select Poems Divine and Humane. 1928. No. 763 of 1250 copies. (12mo) soft vellum wrappers stamped in gilt, paper slipcase. Voltaire, M. de. The Princess of Babylon. 1927. With decorations by Thomas Lowinsky. No. 602 of 1500 copies. (12mo) vellum-backed patterned boards, lettered in gilt. A.M. A Keepsake for the A.I.G.A. from Francis Meynell. Nonesuch Press, 1930. Wrappers. Condition: Varying wear and soiling to wrappers and boards; labels worn and chipping; occasional ink marks and marginal foxing; very good. Item#: 355653 Headline: A selection of works from the Nonesuch Press