works dean patricks von jonathan swift walter scott (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1883. Second Edition. 502 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. End-papers are more notably foxed. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Ex Libris plate to front free end-paper. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends, with fraying cloth and small splits. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering has become dull.

Zustand: Good. 1883. Second Edition. 469 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. End-papers are more notably foxed. Ex Libris plate to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering has become dull. Moderate tanning to spine. Book has a slight forward lean.

Zustand: Good. 1883. Second Edition. 483 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. End-papers are more notably foxed. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Ex Libris plate to front paste-down. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Board corners are bumped, with some loss to cloth. Mild crushing to spine ends, with fraying cloth and small splits. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering has become dull. Moderate tanning to spine.

Hardcover. Large Octavos, Nineteen Volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in full contemporary tooled leather, rebacked with new paneled leather spines and gilt tooling. Moderate rubbing to head and tail of spines and edges of boards. Heavier rubbing and some bumping to corners of boards. Scuffing to spines and boards. Edges of textblocks marbled. With marbled endpapers, tanned at the edges. Age toning and scattered staining and foxing throughout textblocks. Penciling to verso of front free endpaper and recto of rear free endpaper in Volume I. Ribbon stains on pages 194 and 195 in Volume II and pages 224 and 225 in Volume XV. Light staining to the fore edge of the textblock on Volume VI. Tearing to pages 323-376 in Volume IX. Tape to the gutter between the front free endpaper and pastedown in Volume XIII. Penciling to verso of front free endpaper in Volume XIII. Leather loosening at hinges on Volume XIII. Heavier foxing throughout the textblocks in Volumes XIII-XVII. Shelved above Art Monographs. 1379455. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

First Edition. Poor set in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 19 volumes, 2 plates ; portrait, 21 cm. Contents; v.1. Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Appendix. -- v.2. Journal to Stella (Letter 1-37). -- v.3. Journal to Stella (Letter 38-65) Tracts, political and historical, prior to the accession of George I. The Examiner, No. 13-27. -- v.4. Tracts, historical and political during the reign of Queen Anne. The Examiner, No. 28-45. -- v.5. The conduct of the allies, &c. The history of the four last years of the Queen -- v.6. Tracts, historical and political, during the reign of Anne. History of John Bull. -- v.7. Tracts relative to Ireland. The Drapier's letters. Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs. -- v.8. Twelve sermons. Tracts in defence of Christianity. Tracts in support of the church establishment. -- v.9. Tracts in support of the church establishment, continued. Tracts on the Test act. Predictions for the year 1708. Miscellaneous essays. A meditation upon a broomstick. -- v.10. Abstract of the history of England. Memoirs of Captain John Creichton. Political poetry, preceding 1715. Poems, chiefly relating to Irish politics. -- v.11. Tale of a tub. Polite conversation. -- v.12. Gulliver's travels. Directions to servants. -- v.13. Miscellanies in prose, by Mr Pope, Dr Arbuthnot, Mr Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and Sheridan. -- v.14. Miscellaneous poems. Verses during Lord Carteret's administration. Poems addressed to Vanessa and Stella. -- v.15. Riddles by Dr Swift and his friends. Trifles passing between Swift and Sheridan. Poems composed at Market-Hill. Verses addressed to Swift and to his memory. Epistolary correspondence. -- v.16-18. Epistolary correspondence. -- v.19. Epistolary correspondence. Index. Subjects; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745). English literature 18th century. Genres; Biography. English literature - 18th century. Illustrated. Irish literature - In English - 18th century. 10 Kg.