rev william dodd (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 351 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Cracking to hinges, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Heavy bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends, causing cloth to fray. Book has noticeable forward lean, with heavy tanning overall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Early edition of this much reprinted collection, in exceptionally good internal order with clean crisp and bright pages from front to back, bar a little marking and former owner's details to title page. Externally, full leather binding is shaken and heavily worn with loss to spine at head and foot. 32mo. 353pp + index and publisher's ads.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Dodd's 'Beauties of Shakspeare' is an 18th-century anthology of excerpts from William Shakespeare's plays, compiled by the English clergyman and writer William Dodd. Originally published in 1752, the work was a popular collection intended to make Shakespeare's most notable passages and quotations more accessible to the public. Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, Birket Foster and others. 1879 Cover worn with bumping to spine edges and corners of boards. Back hinge beginning to break. Former owner's name in ink on front free endpaper. Pages foxed with occasional small marks but otherwise in clean sound condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Published in London in 1809, this is the second edition of this theological work from Rev William Dodd. William Dodd (1729-1777) was an English Anglican clergyman and a man of letters. He lived extravagantly, and dabbled in forgery in an effort to clear his debts, and was caught and convicted. Despite a public campaign for a Royal pardon, in which he received the assistance of Samuel Johnson, he was hanged at Tyburn for forgery. The books are bound in old full leather bindings, 8.5 inches tall approx. The leather bindings have some general rubbing wear and marks, a noticeable bump to lower corner of rear board of volume three, minor cracking to joints, all boards well attached, internally some cockling to paper to a few pages else contents generally nice and clean. This is a heavier item, overseas shipping costs will be slightly higher than the basic standard one kilo quote.

Cooke's Edition: Hardback, half-bound in brown leather, gold titles on black spinal label, gold decs., marbled bds., 90 x 145 mm., 200g., 125 pp., 2pp. advertisement in front of book, dated 1777, engraved tite-page, frontis (with foxing) and tail-piece at end, light shelf wear, no dw., Good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Undated c1880s. Hardback copy in full green leather boards with blind stamped borders, raised bands and gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 351pp + 16pp book catalogue to rear. Steel portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare with tissue guard, full page illustrations throughout. Marbled endpapers, gold gilt page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, some wear to board and spine edges. (58/2).

, title page, iii, 232 pages, errata at end, includes his last prayer written in the night before his death, and other miscellaneous pieces, was publicly hanged at Tyburn for forging a bond of £4,200, Samuel Johnson got a petition for his release to no avail, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully" (S. Johnson) First Edition , scuffed at corners and spine ends, upper joints splitting but holding firm, neat owner's details at upper edge of page i, water stain at rear, text legible throughout, in good condition , full tree calf, gilt titles on red leather spine label Octavo Hardback ISBN: