rev henry boyd (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd edition. Blue-green hardcover with gilt lettering and ruling. 135 x 195 x 24mm. (vi) + 192pp. Text block edges coloured. Cover faded on spine, with spine-ends and corners lightly bumped/rubbed; marks to a couple of leaves near title-page (foxing to tissue guard-leaf, a wavy vertical line to two following leaves); leaves in second half of book show faint diagonal creases (book presumably dropped at some point); text otherwise clean and unmarked throughout. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

Zustand: Good. 1807. No Edition Stated. 216 pages. Fully bound in brown leather. Book has been rebound. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Pages are lightly tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Text block edges dyed brown with top edge slightly darkened. Binding remains firm. Brown staining to front endpaper. Occasional thumb-marking. Boards have slight edge wear with corner bumping. Visible sunning to spine. Minor scuffs to leather covering spine.

Zustand: Near Fine. First Complete Edition in English. First edition of the first full translation of Dante's Divine Comedy into English. Octavo. Three volumes bound in contemporary full calf with gilt stamping and raised bands to spine. Light rubbing to bindings, darkening to spines; shallow chip to head of Volume III. Tanning and light foxing to interiors, particularly the title page of Volume I, joints repaired at an early date, usual wear and toning due to age; last textual leaf of Volume II is partially detached along the top half. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase with green gilt-stamped morocco spine over green cloth. An important edition which brought Dante's epic work to an English speaking audience for the first time in its completeness, also marking the first publication in English of the Purgatorio and the Paradiso; the Inferno is here is in its fourth publication in English, following the first edition of 1782, and Boyd's 1785 Dublin and London editions. This edition was also instrumental in "assisting to re-establish an audience for Dante, whose reputation had suffered a decline in the previous century." A fantastic set in a beautiful contemporary binding, housed in a custom slipcase.