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1695179138London: J. Heptinstall for W. Rogers 1695. Leather bound. VG light shelfwear and smudging to leather boards spine has some tears internally but all pages are intact. Staining to block age toning to pages. Tan leather boards with four raised bands on spine bw frontispiece 4 lxiv 355 1 pages. Translation of: De arte graphica. Parallel texts in English and Latin. Added engraved title page. By C.A. Du Fresnoy ; with remarks ; translated into English together with an original preface containing a parallel betwixt painting and poetry by Mr. Dryden ; as also A short account of the most eminent painters both ancient and modern continu'd down to the present times according to the order of their succession by another hand. J. Heptinstall for W. Rogers unknown books
1693174083London: Printed for Jacob Tonson 1693. Hardcover. VG- cracking to spine front cover loose light rubbing scuffing and general wear to boards light toning to page edges. Calf leather boards with gilt trim spine with 6 gilt decorated compartments and raised bands marbled endpapers gilt adornment to interior edges. xxxix 315 87 pp. Translated into English verse. By Mr. Dryden and several other Eminent Hands. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Made English by Mr. Dryden. With explanatory notes at the end of each satire. To which is prefixed a discourse concerning the original and progress of satire. Dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Dorset by Mr. Dryden. -foot of title page. Contains bookplate of famous book collector Herschel V. Jones. Printed for Jacob Tonson hardcover books
16931260218London: Jacob Tonson 1693. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Folio 315pp. 87pp.; VG; brown paneled spine with black plate and gilt lettering; half bound in contemporary paneled calf; 2 parts in 1 each with a title-page and separate pagination; page lii misprinted as xxxix; some minor waviness to pages no foxing; some shelf-wear and bumping; GP consignment; shelved case 7. 1260218. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Jacob Tonson hardcover books
167664653DRYDEN John. Aureng-Zebe. A Tragedy. Acted at the Royal Theatre .London: Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman 1676. First edition of one of Dryden's most successful plays based on the life of the Indian Moghul ruler set in Agra in 1660. Octavo 8 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 213 x 159 mm. 12 86 2 epilogue pp. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in modern quarter black morocco over marbled boards gilt-stamped on spine. New endpapers. Previous owner's ink notes on leaf a2. Pages slightly darkened. Very good. HBS 64653. $750 Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman hardcover books
16832326London: T.H. for R. Bentley and J. Tonson Thomas Hodgkin 1683. First Edition. Half Leather. Very good. First edition of The Duke of Guise by John Dryden. Octavo 8 76pp. Advertisement on page 76 lacking music at rear. In contemporary half brown morocco marbled boards title in gilt on spine. Housed in custom quarter leather chemise case. Previous ownership bookplates affixed to front endpaper. Pencil marks on title page. Overall in very good condition some toning to leaves occasional loss at edges closed tears. Wing D2264; MacDonald 87a. John Dryden 1631 - 1700 was the poet laureate of England in 1668. He was a prolific author and writer with some calling his time the Age of Dryden. T.H. for R. Bentley and J. Tonson [Thomas Hodgkin] unknown books
1693272384London: Tonson 1693. hardcover. very good. Contemporary full mottled calf folio spine and corners rubbed 13 1/2 x 9 inches. iv xxxix iii 315 1; iv 87 1 p. Dryden's long and important essay on satire is in the form of a dedication to the Earl of Dorset. Dryden himself translated Satires I III VI X and XVI of Juvenal; the others were by William Congreve Nahum Tate George Stepney Stephen Hervey William Bowles Thomas Power Thomas Creech and John Dryden Jr. The satires of Persius all translated by Dryden have a separate title-page pagination. iv xxxix iii 315 1; iv 87 1 p. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson London 1693. First edition. A beautiful clean copy.<br/><br/> Wing J1288<br/><br/> Tonson unknown books
1693018127London: Printed for Jacob Tonson 1693. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. iv xxxix i blank 315 pages i blank 87 pages of text. New hardcover binding with a brown leather spine green leather spine lable and marbled paper-covered boards. New endpapers. Minor soiling and minor foxing to the first and final few pages with minor soiling scattered lightly here and there. Complete with the half-title page. The text is unmarked. Wing J1288. "Eminent" translators include Nahum Tate William Congreve and Dryden's sons Charles and John. First edition. Printed for Jacob Tonson Hardcover books
1693268145London: Printed for Jacob Tonson 1693. First edition. iv xxxix iii 315 1; iv 87 1 p. Folio. Contemporary full acid-stained calf spine with raised bands in 6 compartments lettered in gilt in one the rest richly gilt. Neatly rebacked preserving original spine internally a clean well-margined copy. First edition. iv xxxix iii 315 1; iv 87 1 p. Folio. Dryden's translation of the 1st 3rd 6th 10th and 16th Satires of Juvenal and all of Persius with help from fellow translators Nahum Tate William Congreve and Dryden's sons Charles and John. Congreve also contributed the poem that prefaces the translations of Persius. ESTC R12345; Macdonald 30a. Provenance: Reginald Pole bookplate; John Drinkwater his signature dated 1923; Lytton Strachey his booklabel; Roger Stenhouse his booklabel Printed for Jacob Tonson unknown books
170043630London: Jacob Tonson 1700. First Collected Edition. Folio pp. 648. A nice clean tall copy with the half-title; with some minor foxing. Bound in contemporary calf chipped front cover separate Bookplate. Macdonald 37a. NCBEL II 447. Pforzheimer 326. Wing D2278. A collection of some twelve thousand verses which "again show Dryden's energy of thought and language undiminished by age" DNB including paraphrases or translations of the first book of the 'Iliad' some of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' and tales from Chaucer and Boccaccio. There is also a poem 'To my Honoured Kinsman John Driden' verses addressed to the Duchess of Ormond and lines on 'A Fair Maiden lady who died at Bath' the wife of Lord Abingdon. The preface written in fine prose contains an excellent appreciation of Chaucer as well as attacks on Milbourne and Sir Richard Blackmore and a reply to Jeremy Collier's attack on the stage. Jacob Tonson unknown books
1700104852London: Jacob Tonson 1700. First edition of this collection of fables with nearly 12000 verses translated or paraphrased from various including Homer Chaucer and Ovid. Quarto bound in contemporary calf Cambridge binding tooled and lettered in gilt on spine raised bands. In very good condition. One of the most prolific and versatile writers in literary history John Dryden excelled as a poet a playwright a critic and a translator. According to Dr. Johnson "Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism" and Pope saw in Dryden's work "better specimens of every mode of poetry than any other English writer" Allibone 524. Jacob Tonson hardcover books
169336454London: printed for Jacob Tonson 1693. First edition. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in full contemporary blind-panelled calf covers gilt-stamped with central coat of arms red leather spine label. Binding generally worn and rubbed joints cracked but cords still sturdy; half-title creased and starting to detach; otherwise a tall clean copy. With the armorial bookplate of A. Russell Pollock on the front pastedown. First edition. 1 vols. Folio. Dryden's Juvenal. Wing J1288; Macdonald 30a printed for Jacob Tonson unknown books
169118967London: Printed for Jacob Tonson 1691. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. 14511pp. The half-title is present with its advertisement on the reverse. Also present are the Prologue and the Epilogue. The earliest copies lack these leaves but an unsigned leaf was inserted after A4 headed "Prologue to the OPERA Spoken by Mr. Betterton." H2 was cancelled and a new leaf headed H2v: The EPILOGUE. Spoken by Mrs. Bracegirdle the word FINIS being transferred from H2 to H2v. The text block shows some aging and light staining; it is finely bound in full crushed crimson morocco unsigned but reminiscent of Sangorski: Spine in six compartments with raised bands intricately tooled in gilt; gilt rules on the boards; gilt inner dentelles; endpapers of crimson Victorian cloth in a linen effect. Top edge gilt. The text has been bulked out with several pages of blank paper in the rear. A nice copy of the scarce first edition in a fine binding. Dryden's 'King Arthur' owes little to the Arthur of history of romance. The play centers around a battle with Oswald a Saxon leader which Arthur wins. He also wing the faire but blind Emmeline whose sight is restored by Merlin. The play was first performed at the Queen's Theatre with music by Purcell and marks the likely beginning of a rekindling of interest in King Arthur and other things monarchial after their suppression by Cromwell and the Commonwealth. Macdonald 91 a ii. Arthurian Encyclopedia 121. Wing D2299. ESTC R18755. Printed for Jacob Tonson hardcover books
16973017London:: Printed for Jacob Tonson 1697. FIRST EDITION. Folio:. 44.6 x 28.7 cm. 2 A2 4 4 2 2 2 †2 ††2 x1 B-G4 ¶4 ¶¶2 H-T4 U2; a-f4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Zzz4 Aaaa-Ffff4 Gggg2 Hhhh-Iiii4 Kkkk2. An exceptional and exceptionally large "large paper" copy. This copy is complete with the engraved frontispiece the extra plate depicting Vergil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and all 101 of the magnificent engraved plates by W. Hollar called for in this edition: ten in the Bucolics twenty in the Georgics and seventy-one in the Aeneid. Bound in 17th-century paneled calf very nicely rebacked in the 18th-century. The spine is separated into eight compartments ruled and tooled in gold by raised bands. There are two spine labels one in red and one in green morocco tooled in gold. The boards are framed by a single gold fillet.Internally this copy is in superb condition with very little of the browning associated with this edition. The great majority of leaves are crisp lily-white and wide margined. In fact this is the largest and cleanest copy that we have had the pleasure to handle. There are a few incidental marginal tears only one of which –now mended- enters an engraving opposite p. 261. The final leaf is ink-stained. "Dryden's 'translation of Vergil'" says Pope whose own translation of Homer was inspired by Dryden's work "is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language." Thomas "The book was published by subscription a system of joint-stock patronage now coming into vogue. . Dryden's correspondence with his publisher Tonson showed a good many bickerings during the publication. One cause of quarrel was Tonson's desire that the book should be dedicated to William III. Dryden honourably refused; but Tonson had the engravings adapted for the purpose by giving to Aeneas the hooked nose of William Dryden Letter to his son 3 Sept. 1697." DNB"Shakespeare probably knew at least the earlier books of the 'Aeneid' in Latin while Milton's 'Paradise Lost' attempts to provide an English equivalent not only for Vergil's epic themes but even for his syntax diction and as far as possible meter. But in Britain he was also particularly well-served by translations. In the seventeenth-century the epic was translated by Dryden." Gian Biagio Conte's "Latin Literature A History" Wing V-616; Macdonald 33A; Wither to Prior #325; Malone I.1.313; See John Barnard "The Large- and Small-Paper Copies of Dryden's The Works of Virgil 1697" in "Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America" Columbia SC 92 no. 3 1998 Sept: p. 259-71. Printed for Jacob Tonson books
