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1836869T35London: John Major 1836. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". None. A complete two volume set of this first edition from Thomas Frognall Dibdin with illustrations. Complete in two volumes. Volume one is illustrated with frontispiece and three plates. Volume two is illustrated with five plates. Collated complete. A biographical account from Thomas Frognall Dibdin an English bibliographer and reverend with anecdotes of numerous books and book collectors of his day. In the original half crushed morocco with patterned boards. Externally smart with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good Indeed John Major hardcover
1847830J15London: G.H. Davidson 1847-8. Leather. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". H.B. Hall. A comprehensive collection of the popular songs by Charles Dibdin published posthumously an early edition of this work complete in two volumes. A collection of the songs and poems of Charles Dibdin the noted British composer and musician who wrote over six-hundred songs during his life and was the most prolific English songwriter of his time.Including comprehensive notes of historical biographical and critical nature as well as Dibdin's most popular melodies and music with new piano-forte accompaniments. Also with a memoir of the author all by George Hogarth. Complete in two volumes. The fifth edition of this work.Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by H.B. Hall. Collated and complete. In half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally sound with shelf wear and rubbing to the spines joints and extremities. Front joint of Volume I starting at the head. Small previous bookseller's sticker to the front pastedown of each volume. Internally binding is generally firm. A few spots to the first and last few pages and the odd spot throughout otherwise pages are generally bright and clean. Very Good G.H. Davidson hardcover
1873312922London: Nisbet and Co 1873. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Elevated motif to the front board. An attractive historiated initial appears at the beginning of the text. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 100p. subjects: Story collection. short stories. Collections. Genre: Short Stories. London: Nisbet and Co hardcover
183253459London:: Henry Bohn 1832. First edition. old half morocco over marbled boards. Front cover detached; two short tears to title page not affecting lettering; engraved bookplates; binding worn and soiled. 8vo. With Notes by Cato Parvus. Henry Bohn, hardcover
1824009789London: Harding Triphook and Lepard 1824. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed by W. Nicol at the Shakespeare Press. li 1 400 Part Second title page 401-912 pages. Finely bound by Whitman Bennett of New York in mid 20th c. half red morocco over red buckram boards gilt back in five raised bands marbled end papers top edge gilt. Near Fine small rubs at corners and edges toning primarily at first several pages front and back. A quite handsome copy "The Bennett Book Studios of New York City was established in the late 1920s by bookman and binder Whitman Bennett b. 1884 in Cambridge MA; d. 1968 in New York. The business sold rare books particularly first editions and sets of American and English literature classics and also operated as a fine bindery. Bennett Studios was known for crafting fine leather bindings and the term "Bennett copy" arose in the book trade to refer to the binder's work in upgrading a second or third issue text with a first edition binding" Lilly Library Bennett mss. 1929-1968. Harding, Triphook, and Lepard Hardcover
180231254Glocester: H. Ruff. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1802. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 63 pages; Rebound in paper boards. . H. Ruff hardcover
1807BIBLIO-33352Longman Hurst Rees and Orme London first edition thus 1807. Contemporary diced russia decorative gilt borders to boards and decorated compartments on spine leather spine-label misspelling "Quales" 8vo 19 cm. lxiv 332 pp portrait frontispiece. Uncommon. In the preliminary "Advertisement" leaf to Dibdin's extremely rare 1809 second edition which is not in Windle & Pippin Dibdin refers to "some hundred copies of this work having been sold" with Wolfe's name as editor and in the Reminiscences 1836 he states " this book is now so scarce that I know not where a copy may be found". Dibdin took his pseudonym from the name of a Strasbourg printer who settled in London about 1557. His principal editorial contribution was to modernize the orthography. Rubbed and worn at extremities some loss to head of spine small scrapes and marks to rear board some spotting and darkening to frontispiece and title-page otherwise Good. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, first edition thus, 1807 hardcover
1829049581London: Robert Jennings and John Major 1829. Book. VG. Full-Leather. 2nd Edition. Complete in three 3 volumes uniformly bound in original full polished calf gilt-ruled boards rebacked in brown cloth with gold foil title and volume labels in burgundy and black mounted on spine panels new endsheets original marbled text block edges. 2nd edition. xlii422 iv428 iv482 pp. illus. w/ engraved frontis. portrait in each volume engraved plates w/ guards cuts in text. Interiors show scattered foxing generally light otherwise clean nicely intact. Boards show mild surface rubbing mostly toward edges most corners showing exposure but not layered or excessively worn. A sound attractive set scarce. Robert Jennings and John Major Hardcover
1838106710Printed for the author by C. Richards 1838. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2 volumes 1st edition London printed for the author 1838 engraved plates with tissue guards to almost every illustration later endpapers some plates cut to the margin some slight spotting & toning to plates text very clean all edges gilt uniform later 19th century gilt decorated full green calf spines slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot 8vo Near Fine Finely bound set. Printed for the author by C. Richards hardcover
1823415729London : Printed for the author by W. Nicol Shakspeare Press and sold by Payne and Foss 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy only in full contemporary aniline calf edges elaborately bordered in blind; all edges marbled. Gilt-blocked title to spine with raised bands and spine compartments uniformly tooled in blind. Boards present but detached. Remains otherwise particularly well preserved overall; internally tight bright clean and strong Further scans images and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description; 295 pages ; 27 cm. Notes; Vol. 6 of Dibdin's celebrated book. ""Lately forming part of the library of the Duke di Cassano Serra; and now the property of George John Earl Spencer; With a general index of authors and editions contained in the present volume and in the Bibliotheca Spenceriana and AEdes Altropianae""--ttile page. Subjects; Incunabula ; Bibliography ; Catalogs. Rare books. Printing History ; Bibliography. London : Printed for the author by W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press, and sold by Payne and Foss hardcover
183220035London: Wm. Davy for Henry Bohn 1832. First edition 8vo pp. 102; without the errata slip at B1; half red morocco a little rubbed and spine darkened else good and sound or better. Windle & Pippin A60; Jackson 82: "Mercurius Rusticus and Cato Parvus were pseudonyms used by Dibdin in the Bibliomania. Owing to the agitation regarding Reform and perhaps also because of cholera epidemics the rare book market appeared to Dibdin to be very low indeed. His diatribe was touched off by the absurdly inadequate prices that the original manuscripts of the Waverley Novels fetched at Evans' sale 19 August 1831. Dibdin's natural optimism made him prophesy that the depression in books would not last long . One hundred copies of this book printed on large paper were also issued. [Wm. Davy for] Henry Bohn unknown
18420019<p>8vo. 8 xiv 618 64 plus indexes 4 pages.<br /><br />Full leather binding with five raised bands and gilt title. Inner gilt dentelles with marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Leather to joints leading edges of boards and corners rubbed with marginal loss on corners. Corners bumped. Minor scratching and indents to boards without loss. Light foxing for first /-30 pages and sporadically to a few subsequent pages. Heavy foxing to rear end-paper and final page of indexes. Otherwise text very clean. Very good condition except for defects reported.</p><p>Three plates present of the four for regular copies listed by Windle & Pippin "seldom all present in regular or large-paper copies" <em>Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1776-1847 A Bibliography New Castle Oak Knoll Press 1999 p.42</em> – missing the frontispiece portrait of Dibdin. The cuts at pp. 250 254 and 484 are on india paper which Windle & Pippin note are "sometimes found" in copies ibid. p43.</p><p>One of 500 copies printed.</p><p>Windle & Pippin A11d.</p><p><br /><strong>As a heavy and high value book shipping will be greater than for average listings. A signed for shipping service will be used. Please contact me in advance for details if you wish.</strong><br /><br /></p> Henry G. Bohn hardcover
18381011R3London: For the Author by C. Richards 1838 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 10" by 6.5". Not Stated . The very scarce first volume of this extra-illustrated large paper edition of Dibdin's final work illustrated throughout with engraved plates. Bound in half crushed morocco with marbled paper-covered boards. A richly illustrated travel narrative that records English bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin's visits to libraries book collections historic sites and landscapes in the North of England and Scotland. Volume I concerned with the North of England is illustrated with a frontispiece eleven plates and extra-illustrated with fourteen further mounted vignettes on India paper. Bound in half crushed morocco with marbled paper-covered boards. Externally generally smart but rubbed to extremities and joints. Rubbing to spine head and tail. Fading and the odd mark to the paper-covered boards. The odd mark to the leather. Lower front hinge cracked and starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright with spotting to first and last few leaves. Very Good For the Author by C. Richards hardcover
18380023<p><br />2 volumes; xv 10 xxx 436 xxix pages; 10 439-1090 pages text complete with pagination misprints as recorded in Windle and Pippin.<br /><br /><br />Half cloth binding with brown paper-covered boards. Gilt title to spines. Some scratching and minor marking to boards. Some loss of paper to board edges. Small indent to top of rear board of both volumes. Corners slightly bumped on both volumes. Foxing to pages 201-205 in volume one. Foxing to end-papers and frontispiece in both volumes and foxing to other but not all plates. Page edges somewhat dusty. Text generally very clean with occasional minor spots of foxing. Good condition.<br /><br />Volume one includes a list of subscribers list of plates and table of contents all bound in after the preface. Volume one has 12 plates and volume two has 32 plates as called for. Numerous engravings in text.<br /><br />Windle and Pippin A65.<br /><br /><br /><strong>As a heavy and high value set shipping costs will be greater than for average listings. Signed for shipping will be used. Please contact me in advance for details if you wish. </strong><br /><br /></p> C. Richards. hardcover
181164414London: printed for the author by J. McCreery . and sold by Messrs. Longman et al. 1811. Second edition 8vo pp. ix 3 275 1; 7 280-782 2; engraved title page in volume I 1 engraved plate illustrations in the text decorative page borders at the beginning of each of the six sections of the book; contemporary calf smooth gilt-decorated spines black morocco labels rear joint of volume I cracked cords holding upper joint on volume II starting; all else very good. Early ownership signature of Robt. Entwhistle and armorial bookplate of George Montgomery Traherne. A separate issue was printed in imp. 8vo 2 vols. Lowndes notes that the Bibliomania is written in dialogues or conversations the characters introduced are well-known book collectors of the author's acquaintance. Jackson identifies these "interlocutors" as J. Rennie J. Dent P. Bliss B. Botfield Sir F. Freeling R. Lang J. North Lord Aberdeen J. Markland Sir G.H. Freeling R. Wilbraham and Thomas Hill. Jackson 18; Lowndes I 639; Windle A11c. printed for the author, by J. McCreery ... and sold by Messrs. Longman [et al.] unknown
1827019988London: Henry Colburn 1827. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes complete. Original full calf leather binding with gilt rolled edges. The books have been rebacked in modern calf leather preserving and matching the original boards. Moderate wear to the boards. Lacking the half titles as is usual with this set. Modestly foxed. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in GOOD condition. Photos available upon request. Thomas John Dibdin March 21 1771 September 16 1841 was an English dramatist and song-writer. Dibdin was the son of Charles Dibdin a song-writer and theatre manager and of Mrs Davenet an actress whose real name was Harriet Pitt. He was apprenticed to his maternal uncle a London upholsterer and later to William Rawlins afterwards sheriff of London. He summoned his second master unsuccessfully for rough treatment; and after a few years of service he ran away to join a company of country players. From 1789 to 1795 he played all sorts of parts; he worked as a scene painter at Liverpool in 1791; and during this period he composed more than 1000 songs. His first work as a dramatist was Something New followed by The Mad Guardian in 1795. He returned to London in 1795 having married two years before; and in the winter of 1798-99 The Jew and the Doctor was produced at Theatre Royal Covent Garden. From this time he contributed a very large number of comedies operas farces etc. to the public entertainment. Some of these brought immense popularity to the writer and immense profits to the theatres. It is stated that the pantomime of Mother Goose 1807 produced more than £20000 for the management at Covent Garden theatre and the High-mettled Racer adapted as a pantomime from his father's play £18000 at Astley's. Dibdin was prompter and pantomime writer at Theatre Royal Drury Lane until 1816 when he took over the Surrey Theatre. This venture proved disastrous and he became bankrupt. After this he was manager of the Haymarket Theatre but without his old success and his last years were passed in comparative poverty. In 1827 he published two volumes of Reminiscences; and at the time of his death he was preparing an edition of his father's sea songs for which a small sum was allowed him weekly by the lords of the admiralty. Of his own songs "The Oak Table" and "The Snug Little Island" were popular at the time. First Edition. Full Calf Leather. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Henry Colburn Hardcover
1827216873London: Harding 1827. hardcover. poor. Together with an Account of Polyglot Bibles Polyglot Psalters Hebrew Bibles Greek Bibles and Greek Testaments; the Greek Fathers and the Latin Fathers. 2 volumes 8vo crudely rebacked in modern cloth. London: Harding and Lepard 1827. Fourth Edition enlarged and corrected. Internally a very good copy could use rebinding.<br/> <br/> Harding unknown
180912989London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1809. FIRST EDITION. Title in black with red. Half calf over linen; preliminary and last leaves foxed interior and text in generally excellent condition. First edition of this popular book which passed through many later editions. This work was inspired by another published under the same title by John Ferrier M.D. Ferrier had extensive medical experience and did himself suffer from the disease which he named Biblio-Mania. His work in verse begins: <br /> What wild desires what restless torments seize<br /> The hapless man who feels the book-disease.<br /> <br /> Dibdin was the originator and vice-president of the Roxburghe Club founded in 1812 the first of the numerous book clubs which have done such service to literature. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme unknown
1827123164London: Harding and Lepard and G.B. Whittaker 1827. modern cloth brown leather spine labels all edges gilt. small 4to. modern cloth brown leather spine labels all edges gilt. iv xiii 562; iv 580 pages. 2 volumes. Fourth edition greatly enlarged and corrected; one of 250 large paper copies. Windle A3d; Bigmore & Wyman I 171; Jackson no.6 Besterman 1374; Disbound and Dispersed #1 for tipped-in leaf. Published with the same frontispiece as those in the second and third edition. Completely rewritten this edition omits several sections provided in previous editions while adding for the first time the information on the polyglot Hebrew and Greek Bibles and the Greek and Latin Fathers. On page 166 Vol. I there is an actual tipped in specimen leaf from Pickering's Diamond Edition of the Greek New Testament. Still a useful reference tool and difficult to find in the fourth edition. Describes approximately 3500 items about 500 more than the previous edition. Spine labels rubbed. Harding and Lepard and G.B. Whittaker unknown
1814001146London: Whittingham and Arliss. Chiswick Press 1814. Full Calf. Very Good Plus. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. 26 volumes issued between 1814 to 1818 with a total of 104 plays four per volume. Extremely rare in this full and continuous set. A few illustrations accompany each play. This is an extraordinary collection of the popular and canonical theater of the day with some informative notes about the plays premier and players sometimes listing those of contemporary performances sometimes those who originated the plays. The plays include farces burlesques operas essentially musicals or operettas not full-fledged operas masques tragedies etc. Some from playwrights still revered and even performed such as Sheridan Congreve Milton Garrick Colley; others by now obscure writers. Also curious is the number of plays written by women and this might constitute an interesting springboard for study on female writers in the theater. Plays include in order of volumes up to just volume 18 to provide a sense of the range: The Rivals - Sheridan The Beggar's Opera - John Gay Venice Preserved - Thomas Otway The Irish Widow - David Garrick The West Indian - Richard Cumberland A Bold Stroke for a Wife - Mrs. Centlivre Isabella - David Garrick The Quaker - Charles Dibdin The Provoked Husband - J Vanbrugh and Cibber Colley Douglas - John Home Love in a Village - Isaac Bickerstaff Fortune's Frolic - John Till Allingham The Belle's Stratagem - Mrs. Cowley The Gamester - Edward Moore The Brothers - Richard Cumberland Richard Coeur de Lion - General Burgoyne Man of the World - Charles Macklin The Grecian Daughter - Arthur Murphy Maid of the Mill - Isaac Bickerstaff High Life Below Stairs - The Rev. James Townley She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith The Revenge - Dr. Young The Busy Body - Mrs. Centlivre Rosina - Mrs. Brooke The Fashionable Lover - Richard Cumberland Jane Shore - Nicholas Rowe Lionel and Clarissa - Isaac Bickerstaff Three Weeks After Marriage - Arthur Murphy The Hypocrite - Isaac Bickerstaff Cato - Joseph Addison George Barnwell - Mr. Lillo Midas - Kane O'Hara The Beaux Stratagem - George Farquhar The Fair Penitent - Nicholas Rowe The Critic - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Miss in Her Teens - David Garrick All in the Wrong - Arthur Murphy Alexander the Great - Nathaniel Lee The Way to Keep Him - Arthur Murphy Comus -- altered from John Milton The Jealous Wife - George Colman The Mourning Wife - William Congreve Tancred and Sigismunda - James Thompson The Guardian - David Garrick The Clandestine Marriage - George Colman and David Garrick The Roman Father - W. Whitehead The Inconstant - George Farquhar The Padlock - Isaac Bickerstaff Tamerlane - Nicholas Rowe The Wonder - Mrs. Centlivre Rule a Wife and Have a Wife - David Garrick The Tobacconist - altered from Ben Jonson by Thomas Gentleman A Trip to Scarborough - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Suspicious Husband - Dr. Hoadly The Siege of Damascus - John Hughes The Apprentice- Arthur Murphy Oroonoko - Thomas Southern Count of Narbonne - Robert Jephson Confederacy - Sir John Vanbrugh The Devil to Pay - C. Coffey She Would and She Would Not - Colley Cibber Love for Love - William Congreve Mahomet - The Rev. Mr. Miller The Citizen - Arthur Murphy The Orphan of China - Arthur Murphy Every Man in His Humour - David Garrick Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar The Mayor of Garratt - Samuel Foote A New Way to Pay Old Debts - Philip Massinger The Duke of Milan - Philip Massinger The Orphan - Thomas Otway The Recruiting Sergeant - Isaac Bickerstaff and on and on. Condition is very good. There are some dampstains in a few volumes and there is some other soilage here and there but generally the pages are clean and free of issues. Spines rebacked with modern calf featuring five raised boards and embossed title and volume number. Contemporary calf boards preserved and while generally scuffed and with wear along edges and corners these remain attractive. Bindings are tight. Modern endpapers. Whittingham and Arliss. Chiswick Press unknown
1827415155London: Henry Colburn New Burlington Street 1827. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Two volumes. Octavos. A handsome set bound by Root and Son without the half-titles in late 19th century three-quarter dark blue morocco and marbled paper sides elaborate gilt spines in compartments with raised bands marbled endpapers top edges gilt. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Dibdin in Vol. 1. Contemporary small inscription at the top of the title page on vol. 1 very faded and nearly invisible. Modest rubbing to the joints some light soiling to the front cover of vol. 2 near fine. An English song-writer and dramatist Thomas John Dibdin wrote several popular comedies operas farces &c. and was prompter and pantomime writer at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. A scarce first edition of his Reminiscences attractively bound in morocco with the elaborate gilt spines and covers in bright fine condition. OCLC locates only 3 copies. Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street hardcover
181155999London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne; Wilkie and Robinson etc. 1811. Now First Reprinted and Systematically Arranged one of 500 according to Lowndes. With 18 Fac-simile Wood-cuts of the Portraits of the Popes Emperors &c and the Kings of England by John Nesbit one headpiece & a number of small woodcuts in the text. viii 299 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary calf boards stamped in blind and gilt neatly rebacked. Extremities lightly rubbed else Fine. Now First Reprinted and Systematically Arranged one of 500 according to Lowndes. With 18 Fac-simile Wood-cuts of the Portraits of the Popes Emperors &c and the Kings of England by John Nesbit one headpiece & a number of small woodcuts in the text. viii 299 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Jackson 30; Windle & Pippin A19 Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne; Wilkie and Robinson, etc. unknown
1842047381London: Henry G. Bohn 1842. New and Improved. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. The 1842 New and Improved edition large paper issue. Bound in quarter leather over cloth. Light wear and rubbing to binding front joint a little weak scattered minor foxing and spotting internally light offsetting from engravings here and there but generally clean and bright. Pencil inscription dated 1939 detailing the purchase of the book.xiv xxxiv 4 618pp. Frontis to the new title and the original 1809 title. Edges gilt. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 047381. Henry G. Bohn hardcover
1822243344London: Shakspeare Press 1822. hardcover. very good. Volume I only. 30 engravings including 1 folding architectural plan all with tissue guards.Small 4to full brown calf inner dentelles ornately gilt spine with gilt crest on covers; spine rubbed and hinges reinforced the interior is fine. London: Shakespeare Press 1822. Very good.<br/> <br/> Shakspeare Press unknown
181175349ix 3 782 1 pages much extended and enlarged second edition of the 1809 work with illustrated head and tailpieces decorated title pages for each section decorated capitals vignette to title page woodcuts in the text and one plate complete edition with all six parts Printed for the author by J. McCreery and sold by Longma, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown hardcover
