Jones Diamond Poets and Classics Travelling Library. Jones and Company. Wm. S. Orr & Co. London. 1825 1825-1851. 46 volumes. 10 volumes have title pages for Jones & Co. 36 have Wm.S.Orr imprints on title pages; 16 volumes undated, 17 volumes dated 1848, 13 volumes dated beteen 1825 and 1851. An early reprint of the Jones Diamond Classics and Poets series by Orr, Jones having stopped publishing in 1841. Original bookcase with some cracks to the rear wood panel, and some slight wear to the edges commensurate with a piece of furniture 172 years old. Original creamy yellow endpapers. All edges gilt. Label on the back dating to 1915. 62 x 92 mm. Uniformly bound in cobalt blue grained cloth; spines in compartments with gilt floral embossed decoration with titles and "Diamond Classics" lettered in gilt; spines panelled, mitred and cornered in blind, Borghese Vase in blind on back covers and in gilt on front covers (a monumental bell-shaped urn sculpted in Athens from Pentelic marble in the second half of the 1st century B.C. as a garden ornament for the Roman market, now in the Louvre Museum). Collection of miniature volumes of poetry, essays, novels, stories, etc., all but 4 volumes housed in original oak case with sliding glass door. Jones published a Diamond Poets series and a Diamond Classics series. This and most known sets combine the two series and are commonly called "Jones Diamond Classics." Bondy, 84 -6, "a most impressive and splendid English travelling library". Bromer & Edison, 179.OCLC, 1053087157. WorldCat locates one copy worldwide (University Library of North Texas). 3 firsts2024