johnson capt charles (2 Ergebnisse)

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First edition. First edition. Engraved frontispiece and 25 engraved plates most by J. Basire after W. Jett and J. Nicholls. Title-page printed in red and black, text in double columns. Pagination irregular, but text complete. Pp. [4], [5]-176, 187-194, 185-232, 223, 234-235, 226-323, 326-327, 326-406, [403 [for 407], 408-409, 406 [for 410], 411-484, [2, Index]. 1 vols. Folio (13-3/4 x 9 inches). First edition (with the catchword "As" on the first page of the introduction). Originally published in seventy-two weekly twopenny numbers, the work was a compendium of Alexander Smith's History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highwaymen (1714) and Johnson's own A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates (1724). Johnson is almost certainly a pseudonym. In the middle twentieth century the work was attributed to Daniel Defoe but this theory no longer has any currency. Includes accounts of Edward Teach (Blackbeard), the female pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, Jack Shepherd, Henry Morgan, and Jonathan Wild. The illustrations, largely engraved by Isaac Basire after Nicholls, have a robust Hogarthian vigor and a number exemplify the archetypal perception of the highwayman holding up a stage coach at gunboat. A choice copy, with provenance to among the greatest of book collectors, of this classic early eighteenth-century gallery of rogues, scoundrels, pirates, and more. ESTC T112552 Full red morocco, bound by Bedford, covers with multiple gilt rules, gilt floral cornerpieces, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, second and third gilt-lettered, other with repeat floral and filigree motif in gilt, all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Robert Hoe III (morocco booklabel to front pastedown; his sale, Anderson Auction Company, 8 January 1912, lot 1797) Engraved frontispiece and 25 engraved plates most by J. Basire after W. Jett and J. Nicholls. Title-page printed in red and black, text in double columns. Pagination irregular, but text complete. Pp. [4], [5]-176, 187-194, 185-232, 223, 234-235, 226-323, 326-327, 326-406, [403 [for 407], 408-409, 406 [for 410], 411-484, [2, Index]. 1 vols. Folio (13-3/4 x 9 inches).