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1767403175London: Dryden Leach for the Author 1767. 8vo. 288p. Frontispiece by Grignion. List of subscribers and errata leaf present. Contemporary calf. Rebacked. Provenance: Stephen White L. L. D. contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. "The Celebrated Mr. Samuel Johnson Has Corrected Part Of This Work And Furnished Me With Some Judicious Remarks" Preface. Johnson was a subscriber. Includes: 'Some account of the life and writings of Theocritus' and 'An essay on pastoral poetry' by Edward Burnaby Greene. Eddy & Fleeman 62; ESTC T138182; Chapman & Hazen p. 149. <br/><br/> Dryden Leach for the Author unknown books
17176751Venice: Presso Bastian Coleti 1717. First edition in Italian. Full Calf. Good . 12mo. 188pp. lacking the 2 final blanks. Cont. mottled calf gilt decorated spine rubbed & label lacking. Minor worming at extremities of spine. Armorial bookplate of Earl de Grey Wrest Park on front pastedown. Presso Bastian Coleti unknown books
17744042Paphos i.e. Paris: Le Boucher 1774. 8vo. 4iv280pp. Plus the cancelled leaf N3 strangely bound following the frontispiece of the second volume see below. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by Eisen and numerous engraved head and tailpieces. BOUND WITH: Musaeus Grammaticus and Moutonnet de Clairfons Theocritus and others. HERO ET LEANDRE Poem de Musee on y a Joint la Traduction de Plusieurs Idylles de Theocrite. Par M. M. C. Sestos i.e. Paris: Le Boucher. 1774. xvi104pp. Engraved frontispiece by Eisen. Cont. mottled calf ornately gilt spine rubbed & with small chips at extremities front hinge cracked but still holding soundly. A.e.g. Le Boucher unknown books
1780Embry 152997Dalla Stamperie Reale Bodoni Parma: 1780. Some chipping to edges of leather title labels overall near fine to fine internally bright and wide-margined. One-quarter vellum over marbled boards. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Printed by Giambattista Bodoni during his time at the Stamperie Reale. Previous dealer notes this as a "large-paper" copy not confirmed. Dalla Stamperie Reale [Bodoni], Parma: 1780. hardcover books
1760239329London 1760. hardcover. fine. viii 493 3 pages with parallel Greek and Latin texts. Imperial 8vo a beautiful binding in choice state attributed to Staggemeier. Full navy blue straight-grained morocco gilt broad roll border on sides in gilt and blind with gilt inner cornerpieces; ornate spine tooled in gilt and blind in compartments with double bands; edges marbled and gilt. London: Impensis Editoris. Prostant venalia apud C. Hitch & L. Hawkes D. Prince and E. Easton 1760. A superb copy of this scarce large paper edition.<br/><br/> From the library of William Beckford of Fonthill Lot 2533 in Part III of the Beckford sale July 1883. Later in the collections of Sir Edward Sullivan Jean Gennadius & Henry Clements. OCLC lists 23 copies including those at Columbia Yale Harvard & Cambridge.<br/><br/> unknown books