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179514784Edinburgh Scotland: C. Elliot Et Al. As New. 1795. Leather. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- with a bonus offer-- . C. Elliot Et Al hardcover
1701203888848502Jacob Tonson 1701. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. THIS COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN FULL LEATHER - REBACKED RETAINING ORIGINAL LEATHER INLAID BOARDS SEVEN COMPARTMENTS AND SIX RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BLIND STAMPED DETAILS AND BRIGHT GILT TITLES. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES PAGES ARE WITHOUT MARKS EXCEPT FOR PREVIOUS OWNER NAME TO TOP MARGIN OF TITLE PAGE SOME LIGHT SOILING / FOXING. CORNER REPAIR TO FOLDOUT FRONTISE PORTRAIT BOOKS MEASURE 14"x8.5". FIRST FOLIO EDITION 321 YEARS OLD. A STUNNING SET IN REMARKABLE CONDITION. Jacob Tonson hardcover
1716EXP2-D-3London: Jacob Tonson 1716. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 6" by 3.5". None. The Complete Six volumes of Dryden's Miscellany. The fourth edition of this work. With an engraved frontispiece to every volume. Collated complete. From the antiquarian library of Christopher Rowe. Christopher Rowe was a schoolmaster in Norwich and then in Bristol. Throughout his career he inspired many to love literature history and music. He was a specialist on 17th century printer and bookseller Humphrey Moseley and began his unfortunately unfinished PhD dissertation on him. This work is an anthology of poetry from the classic poetry as well as more recent poets including some of Dryden's own poetry. Poets featured include Mr Philips Mr Rowe Alexander Pope Ovid King Charles the First Joseph Addison and more. John Dryden was an English poet literary critic translator and playwright. In full calf bindings with gilt stamping to spines and to the board edges. Externally rubbed to the spines. Minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Spine to volume II is particularly rubbed with the gilt '2' not very visible. Loss to the head of spine to volume V. Front joint is starting but firm to volume V with the hinge slightly strained but firm. Rear joint to volume V has a crack from the head to the top of the spine label. Prior owner's signature to title page of all volumes. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown of all volume Christopher Rowe. Internally all volumes are firmly bound Pages are slightly age toned to edges with the odd light spots to throughout. Very Good Indeed Jacob Tonson hardcover
1796118718London: by T. Bensley for J. Edwards and E. & S. Harding 1796. First editions with these Bartolozzi engravings the only two works illustrated by Lady Diana Beauclerc here together in handsome contemporary full morocco. Dryden's adaptations of Chaucer and Boccaccio were among the chief reasons for his perhaps surprisingly high place in the esteem of the Romantic poets especially Coleridge Keats Byron and Scott while Bürger's Leonora inspired a frenzy of competing English versions around this time. Ironically Bürger had found his ballad form not in German literature but largely through the medium of Percy's Reliques; from Leonora it was reabsorbed into English through the Lyrical Ballads most directly Wordsworth's "The Idiot Boy". Two works bound in a single vol. folio 365 x 255 mm. Fables: 9 engraved plates 15 engraved vignettes; Leonora: engraved frontispiece 4 engraved plates 4 engraved vignettes most signed by Bartolozzi after Beauclerc. Leonora with parallel text German and English. Fine contemporary binding of green straight-grain morocco spine attractively gilt in compartments with interlocking wave tools gilt lettered in second panel sides with thick-and-thin rule enclosing a floral scroll border in gilt gilt inner dentelles pink endpapers gilt edges fore-edge gauffered. A little rubbing some offsetting and faint browning a most attractive pair. unknown
179452055Coventry: printed and sold by M. Luckman 1794. Very good. Scarce first edition presentation copy from the editor of this textbook of canonical poets for students - including Milton Dryden Burns Pope Smith Carter and Barbauld. Woolston created this collection of the "most admired poetry" from "the best authors." The biographical summaries at the rear include this description for Charlotte Smith: "Every reader of sensibility must lament with me the sorrows and afflictions which this very amiable Lady has been frequently and long exposed to though they gave birth to some of the most exquisite Sonnets perhaps ever written." <br /> <br /> Issued by Mary Luckman who took over her husband's printing business upon his death in 1784. Quite scarce with only three copies recorded in ESTC Bodleian BL Canterbury and another three via OCLC Yale Penn State University of South Carolina. A pocket window into the big names in poetry at the end of the 18th century. 36mo 5'' x 2.75''. Contemporary tree calf rebacked maroon spine label gilt rules to boards. Publisher's catalogue at rear. xii 310 2 pages. Ink inscription "The Gift of the / author April 24th / 1795" to front fly leaf. Subtle paper repairs to gutters of first few leaves. Boards rather rubbed at corners with some dry crackling to contemporary leather else neat and clean. printed and sold by M. Luckman unknown
1734320591London: Jacob Tonson 1734. hardcover. near fine. 15 volumes. 12mo handsomely bound in older full straight-grained red morocco gilt lettering and design on spine covers and inner dentelles all edges gilt and marbled end papers. Frontispieces vignette titles and numerous engraved plates throughout. Bookplates on inner front covers small ownership name on title pages a few early marginal notes. London: Jacob Tonson 1734. A near fine beautiful set.<br/> <br/> Comprising: "The Dramatick Works" 1735 6 volumes; "The Miscellaneous Works" 1767 4 volumes; "The Works of Virgil" 1748 3 volumes: The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: 1735 1 volume; "Fables" 1734 1 volume.<br/> <br/> Jacob Tonson unknown
1730137210London: Various Publishers c.1730-1760. Finely bound sammelband collection of comedies and tragedies by early English playwrights including William Shakespeare John Dryden and William Congreve. Octavo 43 volumes bound into 7 in half contemporary calf over marbled boards with burgundy morocco spine labels lettered in gilt numerous engraved frontispieces headpieces tailpieces and illustrations. In very good condition. A very unique collection. The growing population of London at the turn of the 17th century the growing wealth of its people and their fondness for spectacle produced a dramatic literature of remarkable variety quality and extent. Although most of the plays written for the Elizabethan stage have been lost over 600 remain including the works of William Shakespeare Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. Tragedies and Comedies were very popular genres as were history plays such as Shakespeare's and Marlowe's plays about the lives of kings Marlowe's tragedies were exceptionally successful as were Shakespeare's his most popular remaining Hamlet Othello King Lear and Macbeth. Various Publishers hardcover