[DISRAELI, BENJAMIN]. The Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1871-1881.
NEW EDITION; complete in eleven volumes, leather bound, hardcover, octavo (19cm x 13cm), pp. xx, 485; ix, 477; [8], 489; [4], 487; [8], 482; [8], 464; vii, 461; vii, 463; [6], 451, [2] advertisements; [6], 487; [4], 474. English text. Handsomely bound in half morocco gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled page edges and endpapers, half-titles, vol. I with a black & white portrait of the author plus a general preface. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co. Provenance: Sydney Smith's armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings tight and secure with all hinges and joints intact. Trivial light rubbing to some extremities. Interiors very well-preserved.
Notes: A very handsome set consisting of:- I. Lothair, II. Coningsby or The New Generation, III. Sybil or The Two Nations, IV. Tancred or The New Crusade, V. Venetia, VI. Henrietta Temple, A Love Story, VII. Contarini Fleming 'A Psychological Romance' and The Rise of Iskander, VIII. Alroy; Ixion in Heaven; The Infernal Marriage and Popanilla, IX. The Young Duke 'A Moral Tale, Though Gay' and Count Alarcos, A Tragedy, X. Vivian Grey, XI. Endymion.
