The Lifted Veil; Vanity Fair; The Portrait of a Lady; Pan; Our Village

The Lifted Veil. London: The Folio Society, 2005, First Print Thus. Women’s 19th-century stories, introduced by Kathryn Hughes, illustrated by Peter Suart. 251 × 176 × 54 mm. Pp. [i–iv] v–xvii [xviii], [1–2] 3–498 [499–502]: [12] leaves of colour plates. Type: Bulmer. Printed and bound by Cambridge University Press. Full red artificial cloth with a design in dark blue, cream and gold by Suart; dark blue endleaves. Dark blue slip case.

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. London: The Folio Society, 1996, First Print Thus. Introduction by Fay Weldon, illustrations by Roland Pym. 240 × 162 × 43 mm. Pp. [i–iv] v–xvii [xviii], 1–682 [683–686]: [16] leaves of colour plates. Type: Bell. Printed by the Saint Edmundsbury Press, the lithographs by the Cloister Press. Bound by Hunter and Foulis in full yellow cloth printed in blue and black with a pattern by Pym; blue endleaves. Blue slip case. Number 38 in ‘The Folio fifty’ (see item 8). In addition to the plates there are 51 small tail-pieces by Pym.

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. London: The Folio Society, 1994, First Print Thus. Introduced by Joan Aiken, illustrated by Robin Jacques. 251 × 162 × 40 mm. Pp. [1–2], [i–vi] vii–xxix [xxx], [1–2] 3–509 [510–512]: [16] leaves of ‘plates’. Type: Granjon with Windsor Condensed for display. Printed and bound by the Bath Press. Full brown cloth with a lily motif in green, yellow and gold by Daniel Norman; yellow endleaves with the same lily motif in brown, green and red. Grey-green slip case.

Pan by Knut Hamsun. London: The Folio Society, 1983, First Print Thus. From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn’s papers, translated by James W. McFarlane, with an introduction by Peter Forster, wood-engravings by Fredrik Matheson. 228 × 139 × 14 mm. Pp. [1–6] 7–121 [122]: [5] leaves of wood-engraved ‘plates’ (facing pp. 17, 33, 49, 87 and 120). Type: Ehrhardt with Castellar for display. Printed by New Western Printing. Bound by the Pitman Press in full grey cloth with an illustration in brown by Matheson; dark brown endleaves. Pale grey slip case.

Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford. London: The Folio Society, 1997, Second Print, 1998. Introduction by Ronald Blythe. Wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. 202 × 144 × 36 mm. Pp. [i–viii] ix–xxiii [xxiv], 1–422 [423–424]. Type: Baskerville. Typeset by Gloucester Typesetting, printed and bound by the Bath Press. Quarter blue-grey series binding (see item 723); dark green endleaves. Dark green-grey slip case. Mitford’s text was originally published in five volumes between 1824 and 1832. The selection in the present text was first published in Dent’s ‘Everyman’ edition in 1936, and Joan Hassall’s wood-engravings were made for an edition published by George G. Harrap and Co. in 1947. In all there are 26 wood-engravings, including the title-page design (which has been adapted for Folio use), one head-piece and nine tail-pieces.

A bundle of five books ranging from very good+ condition to good-only. All books have straight corners, pages tightly bound and are free of inscriptions. There is light foxing to the edges of Our Village, a clipped corner to the FFEP of The Portrait of a Lady and some small ear marks, and light cover wear to both Pan and Vanity Fair. In like slipcases that may show a hint of shelf-wear, but are otherwise clean, without heavy bumping and structurally sound.