Collins, Wilkie. Heart and Science. A story of the present time. Chatto & Windus, London, 1883.

Price: US$616.00 + shipping

Description: Triple decker first edition in book form, uniformly bound in a Riviere & Son full polished calf binding with original cloth bound at the rear of each volume. A nice set of one of Collins's last novels, a didactic novel attacking vivisection. 8vo. 3 vols. xvi, 294pp.; [4], 293pp.; [4], 302pp., [1]; bound with half titles but without advertisement. Parrish 115. Wolff 1356. Very good in polished calf tripled ruled in gilt, spine decorated in gilt, decorative gilt roll to edges, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, some edgewear, joints starting, lightly rubbed, internally clean and tight a few pages chipped not affecting text with light scattered soiling and foxing, and some offsetting.

Seller: Nelson Rare Books, ABAA, Haddonfield, NJ, U.S.A.

COLLINS, Wilkie.. Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time.. Chatto & Windus, London., 1883.

Price: US$2245.71 + shipping

Description: First edition. Octavo. Three volumes. pp xvi, 294 + [iv], 293 + [iv], 302. Mid-twentieth century binding, with half-titles, by Rivière of three-quarter red morocco with raised bands, gilt decorated spines, gilt rules, cloth sides. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With the burgundy leather ex libris Beeleigh Abbey bookplate of W.A. Foyle on the front pastedown of each volume. An anti-vivisection novel - "Vanity wants nothing but the motive power to develop into absolute wickedness."A fine set. Scarce.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom