Wharton thomas ed (3 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. 24 pp., small 8vo, stapled card wrapper. Fine copy.

Leather. Zustand: Good+. First Edition. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 148 pages; Two volumes bound together. 1748 & 1753, respectively. Both 1st edition. Hamilton's Poems on Several Occasions bound in at rear following the collection of poetry, The Union; Or, Select Scots and English Poems. Hamilton's collection is distinguished by the 1st appearance in print of Adam Smith, who penned the unsigned Preface. The Union collection features an early printing of Grey's Elegy in a Country Church-Yard along with work by Shipley, Lowth, Thomas Wharton, Smallet. Both works gathered in 4's. 144; 148 pp. Title pages present for both volumes; Hamilton's collection - leaf Q4 - has the page numbers neatly excised leaving a small hole in the top margin where page 128/129 should be. In period polished calf with gilt rules in triple amd extra gilt to spine. Title label lacking; front board attached by cords only and tenuous; rear joint rubbed and tender with separation to leather. All edges gilt but with some loss to gilt at front edge from mild paper predation. Armorial bookplate of the Thorolds library at Syston Park. Text block of both works quite neat and very snugly bound but wanting rebacking and a new label. G++ thus.…

Zustand: Very Good. Philadelphia, P.H. Nicklin and T. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1830. Volume I, Third Edition. Octavo. 538 pages. Tan buckram with black leather spine label stamped in gilt. Ex-library [Library of Congress]. Ownership stamp of George S. Graham to front and rear pastedowns. Graham was a member of Congress from Pennsylvania and prosecutor of the infamous serial killer H.H. Holmes. Over the bookplate at front is a Library of Congress sticker, and on front free endpaper a "Surplus / Duplicate" LOC stamp. Alexander James Dallas was the first U.S. Supreme Court Reporter and would later serve as Treasury Secretary under James Madison. This volume covers cases from 1754 to 1789. Boards are worn with exposure to extremities and spine. Moderate soiling and staining boards. Binding is sound with hinges reinforced with cloth tape. First few gatherings loose but holding.…