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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 204 pages (complete). A stoic copy. Pocket sized. Astonishingly for a Scotsman Thomson is now best known for his composition of the lyrics of 'Rule Britannia'. In his day, however, it was his poetry that inspired the British Romantics and beyond. Full leather. The boards are considerably worn. The faces are scuffed, worn, marked. The contents are benign. The first free page has two previous owner notations (one dated 1825, the other 1962). The contents are amiable, convivial, clean, clear, benign, certain. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Facsimile reprint. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xviii,[10],262p. Notes: With a list of subscribers. Subjects: 1701-1800. Language and languages. Elocution; Early works to 1800. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Hudibras was originally published between 1663 and 1678, and is Butler's classic satirical poem, which has remained admired and influential for over three centuries. This 18th Century copy is very smart indeed. Hudibras is a satirical poem by Samuel Butler, first published in parts between 1663 and 1678, that lampoons religious zealotry, political hypocrisy, and Puritanism in the aftermath of the English Civil War. Written in rhyming couplets and rich with classical allusions, the poem follows the misadventures of the self-important knight Sir Hudibras and his squire Ralpho. Celebrated for its wit, linguistic inventiveness, and sharp commentary, Hudibras was widely read throughout the 17th and 18th centuries and influenced later satirists, including Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. Hudibras in Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended: With Additions. To Which are Added, Annotations, And an exact INDEX to the Whole. Adorned with CUTTS, designed and engraved by Mr. Hogarth. By Samuel Butler (All 3 Parts are in this one volume, along with an introduction and section on the author's life). Printed for C. Bathurst, E.Johnson, T. Davies, W. Strahan, C. Corbett, B. White, T. Longman, R. Horsefield, T. Becket, J. Nicol, T. Caslon, E. and J. Dilly, Hawes, Clarke, and Collins, T. Cadell, J. Lowndes, B. Tovey, H. Gardner, and Ed. Johnston, London, 1775. A near fine example, rebound with a 20th Century binding - tan leather spine with raised bands, blind embossed tooled decals, and tan morocco title label with gilt. Boards covered with brown cloth. A very smart copy - light wear, crisp edges and soundly bound. Text is bright and clean throughout, with light scattered age spotting in places. This copy is particularly noted for its Hogarth illustrations - comprising 16 Plates, including 5 foldouts. There is also a portrait frontispiece of Butler by J Van der Gucht. Language: English. Frontispiece + Title + xxi + 12-401pp + 17pp Index + 16 Plates (incl. 5 fold-outs). All complete and plates as called for. Dimensions: approximately 175mm high x 110mm wide x 26mm deep. Unpacked weight approximately 374g. More photos available.…

Leather. Zustand: Good. First edition. Featuring five plays from authors including Henry Fielding and Sir Richard Steele, this is the first edition of the first volume of 'The New English Theatre'. The first edition of volume I of this collected edition of dramatic works from the 18th century English theatre. Volume I only of this collected work, which was initially intended to expand to eight volumes, but eventually reached twelve volumes. Each of the five plays in this collection features an engraved frontispiece, title page, and individual pagination, as called for. This volume consists of the works 'The Busy Body' by Mrs. Centlivre, 'A Bold Stroke for A Wife' by the same, 'The Conscious Lovers' by Sir Richard Steele, 'The Miser' by Henry Fielding, and 'The Suspicious Husband' by Dr. Hoadly. Lacking the engraved volume title page to the start of the work. ESTC N61401 A wonderful collection of 18th century dramatic works. In a half calf binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Rubbing to back strip and joints. Paper label to front board. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Bound without volume title page. Pages age toned due to paper type, with the odd handling mark. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Half title & title sl. wrongly imposed. Disbound. (AN) ESTC T135709. Another adaptation of The Country Lasses by Charles Johnson.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 352 pages(complete). An estimable copy. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spine wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spine are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very, very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming and dignified. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). Both copies are smart. Full calf leather. Stamped gilt cypher on the front boards. The spines have five ridges with different coloured leather patches for titling. The boards have blind stamped decoration, gilt borders. The inside rims of the boards have gilt decoration. The boards have shelving wear to the edges and corners. The spines have much wear all along the bodies, to the heads and feet. Nonetheless, the boards are handsome, steady and sure. The contents are most pleasing. They are fresh-faced, certain, agreeably healthy, clean and clear, convivial, neat, tidy, classy, with a pleasing jeunesse. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

1st English Edition. Sm. 4to. [18], 294p. [Lacking all plates, blanks to front and rear, leaf b2]. Printed title page within double rule and with 'Robt. Parker' in pen to head, historiated/decorative intitial letters, decorative headpieces. Some browning and staining, occasional marginalia, some leaves detached, C19th half leather with marbled boards, some wear, gilt lettered spine lightly cracked and with gilt stag (crest of Manley) to tail. Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), P361; ESTC R11155; US$223.…

Full Calf. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. 8vo; xii, 392pp. Beautifully bound by Fitterer to period style in full speckled calf, spine in six compartments between raised bands ruled in gilt, original olive-green lettering piece gilt. An excellent example, the pages clean, bright, and free of foxing. Lowndes 2380. Sheridan was an Irish stage actor, educator (and, incidentally, godson of Jonathan Swift and father of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan), as well as a major proponent of the elocution movement. In Western classical rhetoric, elocution (the art of delivering speeches) was one of the five core disciplines of pronunciation, emerging as a formal discipline during the eighteenth century. Sheridan's lectures on the subject, collected in Lectures on Elocution (1762) and Lectures on Reading (1775), provided directions for marking and reading aloud passages from literature. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).…

, unusual pagination, each poet begins with page 1, approximately 230 - 287 pages, these books (Volumes 1 - 4, 1779, and Volumes 5 - 10, 1781) are the original titles, later publishers reprinted them as The Lives of the English Poets, black and white frontispiece of Samuel Johnson in the first volume, Volume I. Cowley and Waller, Volume II. Milton and Butler, Volume III. Dryden, Volume IV. Denham, Sprat, Roscommon, Rochester, Yalden, Otway, Duke, Dorset, Halifax, Stepney, Walsh, Garth, King, J Philips, Smith, Pomfret and Hughes, Volume V. Addison, Blackmore and Sheffield, Volume VI. Granville, Rowe, Trickell, Congreve, Fenton and Prior, Volume VII. Pope, Volume VIII. Swift, Gay, Broome, Pitt, Parnell, A Philips, and Watts, Volume IX. Savage, Somerville, Thomson, Hammond and Collins and Volume X. Young, Dyer, Mallet, Shenstone, Akenside, Lyttelton, West and Gray First Edition , volumes in similar condition, lightly rubbed at spines and with some small chips at head and tails, few small areas of title labels missing, gilt remains mostly bright, boards clean, joints partially cracked but holding firm, all internally clean, in very good condition , full tree calf, gilt titles on red leather spine labels, gilt decorated spines, 16 x 10 cm Hardback ISBN.…

First Edition. Good to very good copies all in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, now with minor surface-wear and some minor abrasions. Panel edges and corners show some wear. Spines gilt-tooled with raised bands and leather labels, the former slightly rubbed along with joints and endbands, and the latter partly or entirely lacking on a few volumes. Some joints cracked, with hinges weak and board becoming loose. Vol. 19 bottom edge shows a stain, with text unaffected. Marble endpapers; preliminary and final leaves foxed. Core text blocks remain uniformly strong, showing only the expected faint foxing and offsetting of age. A well-preserved set overall. Further scans, images and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description; complete in 21 volumes ; 25 cm. Notes; Each volume has a half-title. Text printed in double columns. Includes index. Contents; Vol. 1, Chaucer -- Vol. 2, Gower, Skelton, Howard, Wyat, Gascoigne, Turbervile -- Vol. 3, Spenser, Daniel -- Vol. 4, Drayton, Warner -- Vol. 5, Shakspeare, Davies, Donne, Hall, Stirling, Jonson, Corbet, Carew, Drummond -- Vol. 6, J. Beaumont, G. and P. Fletcher, F. Beaumont, Browne, Davenant, Habington, Suckling, Cartwright, Crashaw, Sherburne, Brome, C. Cotton -- Vol. 7, Cowley, Denham, Milton -- Vol. 8, Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden -- Vol. 9, Dryden, Smith, Duke, King, Sprat, Halifax, Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Addison -- Vol. 10, Hughes, Sheffield, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Gay -- Vol. 11, Lansdowne, Yalden, Tickell, Hammond, Somerville, Savage, Swift -- Vol. 12, Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson -- Vol. 13, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young -- Vol. 14, Mallet, Akenside, Gray, Lyttelton, Moore, Cawthorne, Churchill, Falconer, Cunningham, Grainger, Boyse -- Vol. 15, W. Thompson, Blair, Lloyd, Green, Byrom, Dodsley, Chatterton, Cooper, Smollett, Hamilton -- Vol. 16, Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Johnson -- Vol. 17, Glover, Whitehead, Jago, Brooke, Scott, Mickle, Jenyns -- Vol. 18, Cotton, Logan, T. Warton, J. Warton, Blacklock, Cambridge, Mason, Jones, Beattie, Cowper -- Vol. 19, Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal, Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's Art of Poetry, Francis's Horace -- Vol. 20, Rowe's Lucan, Grainger's Tibullus, Fawkes's Theocritus, Apollonius, Rhodius, Coluthus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus, Garth's Ovid, Lewis's Statius, Cooke's Hesiod -- Vol. 21, Hoole's Ariosto and Tasso, Mickle's Lusiad. Subjects; English poetry. Collections. Poets, English. 1 Kg. …

2st edition. Good copies only in full contemporary aniline calf. Spines worn; spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Some boards detached. Internally, bright and clean. Physical description; 38 cm; illustrated with engravings of the coats of arms; text in two colums. Subjects; Nobility Scotland Early works to 1800. Heraldry. Baronetage. Gentry. Genealogy. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jackets. Four Full Leather Bound Volumes In Very Good+ Condition. Each Volume Has An Unobtrusive Previous Owner's Stamp Front And Rear, The Stamp Is Very Faint Watered Down Ink And Sometimes Is Hard To See. The Are No Other Marks Than These. Volume One Shows A Little Foxing On The Title Page As A Result Of The Frontispiece Which Does Not Appear To Have Been Tissue Protected. Each Volume Is Tight And Solid, Original Bindings, Vol 1 & 2 Have The Pace Ribbon Still Intact, Volume 3'S Ribbon Is Missing And Vol 4 Has The Ribbon But No Longer Attached. Each Volume Has Decorative Watermarked Eps. Solid Brown Leather Boards , With Some Age Marks On All And A Small Scuff To The Vol 1 Rear Board. Some Rubbing To Board Edges . Fine Line Gilt Border Still Bright On All Volumes. 4 Banded Spines Still Solid However The Gilt Though Still Visible Is Faded And The Stamped Titles Have No Remaining Gilt. Hardly Any Wear To Spine Ends. Watermarked Block Edges With Gilt Decorative Design On All Board Edges Still Present. A Delightful Collectors Set.…

Paper-Covered Boards. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. First Edition, in two parts (volumes): Part I. The art of reading prose. Part II. The art of reading verse. 8vo: xii,392; [4, including Errata],411,[1, publisher's advertisement]pp. Beautifully bound by Fitterer in marbled paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines. A superb set, clean, bright, and free of foxing. Lowndes 2380. Sheridan was an Irish stage actor, educator (and, incidentally, godson of Jonathan Swift and father of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan), as well as a major proponent of the elocution movement. In Western classical rhetoric, elocution (the art of delivering speeches) was one of the five core disciplines of pronunciation, emerging as a formal discipline during the eighteenth century. Sheridan's lectures on the subject, collected in Lectures on Elocution (1762) and Lectures on Reading (1775), provided directions for marking and reading aloud passages from literature. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). …

, viii, 88, 222, 121, [3] pages, three parts in one volume, articles include: Observations on the Natural History of Guiana by William Lochead; Observations on the Trigonometrical Tables of the Brahmins by John Playfair; Some Geometrical Porisms, with Examples of their Application to the Solution of Problems by William Wallace; Mineralogical Description of the Mountain of Gibraltar by Major Imrie; Description of a Thermometer by Alexander Keith First Edition , rebound, missing the plates, untrimmed edges browned, occasional foxing, good condition , brown cloth, red morocco title label with gilt lettering to spine , 28 cm x 22.5 cm Hardback ISBN.…

Full Calf. Zustand: Very Good. 8th Edition. Two volumes. The eight edition, corrected and revised. Signatures: Volume 1. [A] aâ b-h i-kâ  g-hâ B-6Sâ -- Volume 2. [A] B-6Oâ . Full calf bindings rebacked with the original spine laid down. Raised gilt-ruled bands and gilt lettered red leather title labels to the spines. A few marks and surface chips to the original boards and ends of original spines. A little wear to the board corners. Ink inscription, dated 1828, to the free endpapers (from a Helen Whittle to a Charles Whittle) and only occasional foxing, overall being a nice clean copy. Frontispiece portrait to first volume from the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Alston volume V, 191; ESTC; T116650. 29cms tall. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 4to.…

8 volumes, 12mo, original pink pastepaper wrappers; engraved frontispieces in each volume, folding plate of engraved music in volume II; overall wear, wrappers rubbed (especially on volume VIII) and worn, but the binding is sound. Volumes II and V partially unopened, the remainder unopened, save volume I. Leaf of ads at the back of volume III and a 9-page catalogue at the back of volume VIII. First published in 1748, this remains one of the greatest English novels.…

Hardback, size approx 11.5 x 9 inches. Full period style binding in hand-stained & sprinkled calf. Flat spine divided into six panels by gilt metope bands, with floral corners and elaborate centre motifs completing the 18th century style full gilt design. Single red morocco title label. Front and rear boards feature a delicate floral gilt border, while the board edges and headcaps are finished with a hatched pattern gilt roll. Period marbled endpapers, hand-sewn silk endbands. Text block edges in original red stain. Binding in FINE condition. A really beautiful example. Inside some foxing, a few minor marks, large fold out map has a few creases on folds, with a small amount of offsetting. Else very clean & tight. Complete with 42 plates, maps and charts (many folding), in addition to the magnificent folding map, bound in as frontispiece, showing the route of the Centurion.…

Second London edition, and first authorized separate edition. Vol. 1: Frontis. portrait, extra engraved vignette of SJ to tissue guard, vii, (1), 480; vol. 2: iii, (1), 471; vol. 3: iii, (1), 462; vol. 4: iii, (1), 505 pp. 4 vols. 8vo. The first authorized separate edition of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets - they first appeared as the "Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets,"(10 vols, 1779-1781). A contemporary and uniform set of Johnson's masterwork of critical literary observations, all volumes uncut, in the original boards. The arms on the bookplate suggest that the previous owner who has signed and dated each title page "Fitzwilliam / 1781" is William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833). A subsequent owner has attempted to rub out the Fitzwilliam name and the crown on the bookplates. Courtney, 141-42; Fleeman 79.4LP/5. Provenance: [William, 4th Earl?] Fitzwilliam, with the Fitzwilliam's arms on the bookplate in 3 of the volumes; then from the estate of Huguette Clark Original blue-gray boards (8.75 x 5.25 inches), uncut. Engraved frontispiece portrait by T. Trotter after J. Reynolds, without imprint, additional engraved portrait cut and mounted onto tissue guard, uncut. Backstrips parished, but the volumes are solid. Frontispiece spotted occasionally and some light staining or dampstaining; housed in two cloth chemises and slipcases. Vol. 3 leaf Q1 torn Vol. 1: Frontis. portrait, extra engraved vignette of SJ to tissue guard, vii, (1), 480; vol. 2: iii, (1), 471; vol. 3: iii, (1), 462; vol. 4: iii, (1), 505 pp. 4 vols. 8vo Second London edition, and first authorized separate edition. Signed.…

, ii, 116, [2], 119-406, [2], 126 pages, 4 plates, articles include: Investigations of Certain Theorems relating to the Figure of the Earth by John Playfair; Account of certain Phenomena observed in the Air Vault of the Furnaces of Devon Iron Works with some practical remarks on the management of Blast Furnaces by Mr Roebuck; Description of an Extra-Uterine Foetus by Thomas Blizzard; Description of some Improvements in the Arms and Acoutrements of Light Cavalry by the Earl of Ancrum; Aurora Borealis observed in Day-light by Dr Patrick Graham; Remarks on the Basaltes on the Coast of Antrim by Dr. Richardson; Singular Variety of Hernia by Mr Russel; Biographical Account of the Late Dr. James Hutton First Edition , rebound, no title page and missing the contents of part I, includes contents pages of volume 10 at the start, untrimmed edges browned, p15/16 of the third part is duplicated, occasional foxing, good condition , brown cloth, red morocco title label with gilt lettering to spine , 28 cm x 22.5 cm Hardback ISBN.…