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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. A stated second American edition. With a biography of Johnson by Mr. Blagdon. Front board is cracked along the hinge. It remains attached. First few pages, including title, front endpapers and frontispiece of Mr Johnson are loose from binding but attached. With 216 pages in all, free of writing and marks.

hardcover. Illustrated (illustrator). Later prt. 12mo, 318, 301 pp., Subtitled "Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical & Critical Essays, in that Publication. Compressed into Two Volumes," from the second London edition Nearly fine copy in the original gilt-decorated cloth.

Zustand: BUONO USATO. INGLESE Copia tratta dall'opera originale del 1813. Impressa da J.H. Clark and C. Dubourg, con prefazione e descrizioni curate da Thomas Williamson, accompagnato da "A brief History of Ancient and Modern India". Tavole nel testo a colori. Coperta rigida rossa con titoli al piatto color oro. in buone condizioni. Numero Pagine 149.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. R. Smirke; L. Romney (illustrator). First edition. A lovely, full-calf pocket edition of the poetry of Samuel Johnson, with a biographical preface by Francis William Blagdon. First edition.Smartly bound in full calf.Featuring a lovely frontispiece.A pocket edition of the poetry of eminent English writer and polymath Samuel Johnson. With a biographical preface by Francis William Blagdon. Featuring titles such as "London", "The Vanity of Human Wishes" and "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet". Smartly bound in full calf. Contemporary signature to the front free endpaper, dated 1834. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing, leading to minor loss of leather at the spine head and along the front joint, and a few marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages mildly age toned with a faint tide mark affecting the frontispiece. Text otherwise generally clean with light sporadic spotting, more common to the first and last few pages. Very Good. book.

20 hand coloured aquatint plates, 149pp + [x] Index (including the Half Title and List of Plates); contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered in compartments, marbled edges, 28.2 x 22 cms, the first plate a trifle spotted with a small chip from the bottom margin, slight age-toning and minor spotting, in very good condition. Scarce suite of finely hand coloured aquatints depicting domestic colonial life in British India: the Europeans at their leisure attended by Indian servants. Doyley's compositions are often quietly satirical: Plate IV "A Gentleman Dressing, Attended by His Head-Bearer and Other Servants" shows a young man in his gown relaxed, seated and reading while an Indian servant washes his feet, another in the background pours his drink and yet another makes his bed, all overseen by the "Head-Bearer". The artist Charles Doyley was illustrating and observing a world in which was an intimate participant, he had been born in India into a family that had long served in India, himself serving as a member of the Bengal Civil Service from 1797 to 1838. Abbey Travel 435; Tooley 185.