R g roberts (5 Ergebnisse)

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 uncommon work. The work contains a preface in which Fawkes thanks the help he has received from his peers including Zachary Pearce, John Jortin, and Samuel Johnson. Burnaby furnished the Essay. Francis Fawkes [ 1721 - 1777 ] English poet & translator, who was, in the latter role, considered by his contemporaries to be the best since Alexander Pope. His translations are still selected for modern anthologies to this day, such is their merit. 500 grams.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. Full leather with 5 raised bands at spine and lettered gilt on red spine label. pp [xxii] 384. Frontis portrait. Covers very slightly stained, spine hinges very slightly split but a sound decent VG copy.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original, full aniline calf. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with a red Morocco gilt-blocked label; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 384 pages; Physical desc. : [22], 384, [6] p. : ill. (front. ) ; 17 cm. (12mo) . Referenced by: ESTC T198003. Notes: With three final contents leaves. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Good copies in the original full aniline calf. Raised bands with a red morocco gilt-blocked label. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and bumped as with age. Remain quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 3 v. Contents; Vol. 1. Alcibiades. Don Carlos, Prince of Spain. Titus and Berenice. The cheats of Scapin -- v. 2. Friendship in fashion. The soldier's fortune. The atheist, or, The second part of the soldier's fortune -- v. 3. The orphan. The history and fall of Caius Marius. Venice preserv'd. Poems and letters. Subjects; Otway, Thomas 1652-1685 ; Correspondence. Portraits. English drama 17th century. 1 Kg. …

Fourth Richardson Edition. in contemporary mottled calf, the spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, red goatskin label lettered in gilt, binding slightly rubbed and headcap chipped, but generally a good, sound copy. 8vo (172 x 100 mm), pp. [ii], xxxiii, [3], 192, with an engraved title-page and 25 engraved plates, each with multiple images illustrating each of the 244 fables, An attractive copy of the fourth of five illustrated editions with Richardson?s Life of Aesop. It was first published in 1739, with a title-page dated 1740, with subsequent editions in 1749, 1753 (two issues) and 1775. All of the editions are scarce, with ESTC listing four copies of the first edition, two copies of the second, five of the third edition. The 25 engraved plates include delightful illustrations in miniature for each of the fables, with a brief caption and fable number given above each illustration. The engraved title-page is also very attractive, with an idealised illustration of a landscape peopled with different animals. ESTC t118432, listing BL, Bodleian, Szczecin Public Library, Louisiana State University, Rice, UCLA and Yale.…