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hardcover. Zustand: Fair. London, 1775; marbled paper covered boards; boards detached but present; leather spine and corners; extensive edge and corner wear with board exposed; back strip detached and missing; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; marbled end papers; front and rear end papers detached but present; interior foxed; in…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Leather and marbled boards, raised bands on spine, marbled end-papers. Wear to boards with chipping from edges, wear along spine with tears and some loss at spine ends and sides, leather tears at sides of spine, wear to spine ends and sides of boards and corners, wear and loss an…

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. With owner's name inside cover. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Medium 8vo. Tan leather binding, smooth on rear board and diamond patterned on front. Gilt border on both. Decorative gilt…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Xii, *336, 248; Xi, [3], 516; Xiii, [1], 511, [1] Errata. Complete With Half-Titles. 5 Folding Hand-Writing Facsimile Plates & 1 Engraved Plate Of Seals. Three Volumes In Matching Polished Olive Calf, Five Raised Bands, Two Morocco Labels, Gilt In Other Compartments, Gilt Rules At Borders,…

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…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Fourth edition, corrected and enlarged. Volume II only (of IV). Illustrated with copperplate engravings. Octavo. 442pp. Rebound without blanks, half-title, or ads (if issued) into tan cloth gilt with new endleaves. Page edges darkened, title page with some shallow edge loss and a bit of staining, f…

Zustand: Good. 9th edition. Calf, P+. [ii]+x+396+[6]+48pp, 26 [ of 36 LACKS plates VI, VIII, XX, XXI, XXIII from the Lectures & plates II, VIII, IX, X & Xii from the Supplement, ], both boards detached, several lates with ragged edges from mis-folding but images not affected, backstrip defective, a working copy, or a collection…

Zustand: Good. 1st edition. Half calf, G+. ivi+[x]+[ii]+288pp, engraved frontis, subscribers list & a single page of adverts after the preface & before the main body of the text, signatures L & L3 are cancels, upper board detached, leather a little rubbed & worn, occasional foxing & yellowing of the paper, a fair copy of an unco…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. A popular picaresque classic of European literature, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane was originally written in French by Alain-René Lesage and first published between 1715 and 1735. This English translation anonymously issued but long attributed to the celebrated novelist Tobias Smollett helped…

Klein-8°. 17 cm. xxxii, 209, 302, 255 und 288 Seiten. Ganzlederbände mit goldgeprägter Rückennummerierung. Ein Band mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschildchen. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. 3 der 4 Bände ohne Rückenschildchen. Mit 4 Frontispizen, einigen zwischengebundenen Kupfern und Titelvignetten. Einbände deutlich berieben, Rücken mit…

8vo, pp. [iv], 88, '81-2', [2] epilogue; disbound. First edition. First performed at Drury Lane in December 1767. Garrick and Kenrick patched up their quarrel, but it broke out once more over the division of the profits from this play, with the playwright challenging the actor to a duel (it never took place). There are several v…

Disbound. Zustand: Good Only. The sixth edition of Samuel Foote's eighteenth century comedy The Minor. The sixth edition of Samuel Foote's comedy, The Minor, as it was performed at Drury Lane Theatre. With an illustration to the verso of the front cover. The eighteenth century dramatist, actor, and theatre manager was best known…

, 487 pages with 10 introductory pages and 14 index pages First Edition , gutters open, head and tail of spine and corners scuffed, edges to covers rubbed, leather of back strip cracking, number to front free endpaper, externally worn internally clean and solid , full calf with five raised bands, gilt decorations to compartments…

1st edition. Poor reading copy in the original gilt-blocked leather. Back board detached. Some wear and tear to the spine. Scattered foxing throughout. Physical description: [2], v, 718p; [9] p., [36] leaves of plates: ill. (etchings); 8°.Notes: Includes an index and bibliography for each county. Subjecta: Warwickshire (England)…

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 th…

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 T…

Hardcover. Third edition. 2 volumes. 8vo. lxxxii,384pp. 163pp. Three-quarter calf over marbled boards with gold decorated spine, green title-label with gold lettering. Decimus Junius Juvenalis aka Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. Aulus Persius Flaccus was a Roman satirist and poet. His p…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Octavo (196mm.) Pp. [4],[1] 2-185 [1]. Pages 45/46 creasedSpotting throughout and a little dusty.Contemporary half calf rubbed over marbled paper backed boards. Spine with four raised bands, red calf title label. Published anonymously. When this book was first published it was immediately…

Quarter Leather. Zustand: Fair. Also includes "A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham at the Primary Visitation, in the Year M.DCC.LI." 408 pages. Quarter leather binding with marbled boards and gold titles, top and base of spine, edges and corners are worn, chips missing from leather hinge, leather is broken…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. An interesting dictionary to English pronunciation by John Walker, a later edition. Nineteenth edition of this work. A dictionary of pronunciation of the English language, with useful tips on letters, syllables, and words and directions for foreigners. Rebound in half calf over marbled boards, renewe…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Fourth Edition. Fourth Edition,48pp, extra blank pages, bound in red morocco, gilt tooled, gilt edges, raised bands, slightly rubbed but a good sound copy, Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR'S SON to a Mr. Jeffreys, dated 6 May 1811, T. Cadell and G. Davies, London, 1811. * received high…