John DrydenABAA
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1726002065London: J. Tonson 1726. Fifth Edition. Full Calf. Good. 8vo. cxii 296 pp. With 23 engraved plates. One for each Satyr plus two frontises. One Satyr in second work is lacking a plate. Spine is dry and darkened. Joint extremities are rubbed and a bit rough. Calf on boards remains fresh. Light scattered soiling generally clean. One leaf in dedication cxi and verso with a lot of ink spotting. Plate to Satyr 16 of Juvenile with center tear and small loss not greatly detrimental to image. <br /><br /> J. Tonson books
196587734NY:: Macmillan Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Translated from the Latin by John Dryden. Edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Fitzgerald. Stated first printing. Review copy with slip laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ; 416 pages . Macmillan Company, hardcover books
17043040London: T. Bennet 1704. Hardcover. Very Good. Later boards. Small quarto. Title page states second edition but this is printing is a bit later than that 1686 actual date for the second. Still a nice copy of a Dryden quarto. <br/><br/> T. Bennet hardcover books
1932183564London: Nonesuch Press 1932. Hardcover. VG- overall light shelfwear to boards corners bumped soiling to block. Library bookplate inside front and rear covers. Bindings are tight and pages are very crisp and clean. Six volume set bound in colorful boards with green cloth spines gilt lettering on spines; top edge gilt on all volumes. Each volume is between 500-600 pp. small bw illustration on each title page. This edition is limited to 750 standard sets of six volumes numbered 51-800. This is number 55. v. 1. Prefatory note. Note as to the text. Introduction. Note on the music. Chronological table. Of dramatic poesie. The wild gallant. The rival ladies. The Indian queen. The Indian emperour; or The conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards being the sequel to The Indian queen. Notes.--v. 2. Secret love; or The maiden queen. Sr Martin Mar-all; or The feigned innocence. The tempest; or The enchanted island. An evening's love; or The mock astrologer. Tyrannick love; or The royal martyr. Notes.--v. 3. The conquest of Granada by the Spaniards parts I-II. Marriage a-la-mode. The assignation; or Love in a nunnery. Amboyna. The state of innocence and fall of man. Notes.--v. 4. The mistaken husband. Aureng-Zebe. All for love; or The world well lost. The kind keeper; or Mr. Limberham. Oedipus. Notes.--v. 5. Troilus & Cressida; or Truth found too late. The Spanish fryar; or The double discovery. The Duke of Guise. The vindication. Albion and Albanius. Notes. Nonesuch Press hardcover books
1694BB12340London: Jacob Tonson 1694. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Disbound text block only; small 4to 220x165mm; pp. 12 74; collation A-A4 a-a2 B-L lacking the last 6 leaves pp. 75-82 or L2-M2 but includes the half-title p. with ads on the verso for 4 volumes of Dryden's works as well as the songs by William Congreve. Two small chips on bottom edge of first leaf half-title; small chip at fore-edge of first and second leaf; final leaf bound tight in the gutter with repairs text unscathed. The play is complete; the missing pages would have been the epilogue 36 lines. <br/><br/> Jacob Tonson paperback books
1939WRCLIT63638Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1939. Tall octavo. Blue cloth. Frontispiece portrait. First edition. A tad dusty at edges otherwise a very good copy without dust jacket. The Clarendon Press hardcover books
1866W91923Edinburgh: James Nichol 1866. Full red calf gilt with 5 raised bands and titling and ornamentation panels. Gilt dentelles. Marbled edges and matching endpapers. Signed binding of Bickers & Son London. Wear on spines and joints edgewear and corners bumped; spine title labels missing but number labels present although chipped. Lengthy Christmas 1867 gift inscription on ffep Vol. 1. Ghost of white labels removed from preliminaries in each volume. First Thus. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. James Nichol Hardcover books
175649066Glasgow: printed and sold by Rob. & And. Foulis 1756. Foolscap 8vo 2 volumes pp. viii 237 1; vii 1 240; contemporary speckled calf gilt-decorated spines in 5 compartments blue speckled edges; joints cracked labels perished with title visible as blind impression armorial bookplates of Henry Penton the occasional marginalia throughout volume 2 with staining to the bottom of the last dozen or so pages as well as the covers; good. Gaskell's good quality variant. Gaskell 312. <br/><br/> printed and sold by Rob. & And. Foulis unknown books
1704D291London: R. Wellington 1704. Hardcover. Very Good. Small quarto. Later boards spine chipped but contents very good. Prologue and Epilogue written by John Dryden. Early reprint of this 17th century English play which may have been written by Bacon. It is significant that Bacon is not mentioned in the trial of Essex. The part that Bacon took in the trial was much noted by the public of that time and had Banks really written the play it is scarcely possible that he would have omitted Bacon. Bacon himself would naturally do so. <br/><br/> R. Wellington hardcover books
1929WRCLIT61912San Francisco: Printed for William Andrews Clark Jr. by John Henry Nash 1929. Two volumes. Large quarto and octavo quarter vellum and boards t.e.g. Portraits. Ink gift inscription on prelim blank of first volume otherwise about fine in dual compartment slipcase with modest wear. Compliments slip tipped in. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed on handmade paper by John Henry Nash for private distribution. Introduction by William Andrews Clark to the larger volume which is a new typographic rendering of the text. The smaller volume is a photofacsimile of the Bridgewater-Clark copy of the 1678 first edition. Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash hardcover books
1855D386Edinburgh / London / Dublin: James Nichol / James Nisbet / W. Robertson 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. Full red morocco gilt-stamped crests to upper board lettering and detail stamped on spines worn top edge gilt; two volume set; extra-illustrated with engravings. <br/><br/> James Nichol / James Nisbet / W. Robertson hardcover books
183639127Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie 1836. 1st edition. Period maroon half-sheep over green marbled paper covered boards. Average wear to binding edges rubbed. Wear and light soiling to endpapers and pastedowns ffep torn. An About VG - VG example. 6 416 2 blank pp. 11-1/4" x 9-1/4" <br/><br/>At the time of cataloguing we see 2 institutional holdings recorded on OCLC. Printed and Published by Adam Waldie hardcover books
173519021303London: Printed for W. Feales. Printed for Jacob Tonson 1735. Leather bound. Very good. Duodecimo size 455 total pp. This collection of dramatic works includes five tragedies by different authors bound into one volume each with its own title page; perhaps the best-remembered is "All for Love Or the World Well Lost" by English poet and playwright John Dryden 1631-1700. Made England's first ever Poet Laureate in 1668; Dryden was a prominent writer of the day and popularised many new forms of poetry as the standard such as the heroic couplet.<br/><br/>The plays bound in this volume offer a creative and diverse view at seventeenth century dramatics from some of the foremost writers at the time each representative of the writing style during the English Restoration.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full brown leather decorative and ruled borders blind-embossed on the front and rear boards the spine with five raised bands gilt rules and red leather label with gilt lettering decorative borders blind-embossed on the edges of the boards the title pages of each of the five works in red and black each with an engraved black-and-white frontispiece; duodecimo size 6.75" by 4" pagination: 1-9 10-92 93-96 1-2 3-82 83-86 1-2 3-83 84-86 1-2 3-82 83-86 1-2 3-5 6-25 200-276. Tasteful prior owner bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper from Stoneleigh Abbey an estate belonging to the Leigh family one of the largest landowners in the area from 1561 to 1990.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Very good overall with clean boards a strong square text block and the interior is clean and bright; some rubbing to the head and tail of the spine to the edges of the boards and to the corners and corners are gently bumped some rubbing along the joints with slight cracking at the top of both front and rear joints and both hinges are slightly cracked the boards somewhat tender but still solidly attached light soiling to the endpapers light off-setting to the title pages from the frontispieces some pages throughout have light soil marks but no text is obscured and there is a prior owner marking possibly a name written in pen on the front free endpaper and another marking in pencil on the front paste-down endpaper. Even with its binding faults still very much a very good condition volume.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Printed for W. Feales...| Printed for Jacob Tonson unknown books
1680WRCLIT64481London: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes 1680. 8653pp. Quarto. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Rather browned with early ownership signature on B1 title leaf nearly detached lower fore-corner of J1 torn away costing a portion of final two lines of Epilogue lacking terminal advert leaf included in ESTC entry; a fair copy. First edition. As often the leaf printing the 'Prologue' remains in place conjugate with J1. "Of this comedy Professor Nicoll wrote: 'It is one of the truly unmoral works of the period and its failure i.e. on the stage may have been partly due to the gradual rise of sentimental feeling .'" - Pforzheimer. MACDONALD 85a. ESTC R16108. WING D2297. PFORZHEIMER 329. Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes unknown books
1811W088DLondon: Rivington 1811. A working set neatly rebound in olive buckram and opening well. All edges colored reddish rose. Volume 1 has nice engraving by Holler after Kneller's painting of the poet. This edition edited by the Rev. Joseph Warton DD the Rev. John Warton M.A. and others. The forward tells us that these books are uniform in size with Dryden's Prose Works edited by Malone. Volume 4 is replete with an index. To repeat: A good working set for an enthusiast and/or scholar and scarce. First Thus. Library Buckram. Good/No Jackets. 8vo. Rebound. Rivington Hardcover books
18624220Edinburgh: James Nichol 1862. 2 vols. xxiv2314;xxiv344pp. Finely bound in full red morocco circa 1890 ornately gilt tooled spine & dentelles lightly soiled. A.e.g. James Nichol unknown books
192838664London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald 1928. One of 580 numbered copies. 4to pp. xxvi 84. Notes. Marbled paper over boards with blue cloth spine stamped in gilt . Mostly unopened. Cover little worn and yellowed at edges spine faded o/w VG. Lacks the dj. The Haselwood Books. Gallup B-7b ordinary copy. Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald unknown books
1931116363Westminster: The Stourton Press 1931. full vellum; title and publisher gilt stamped on spine symbol gilt-stamped on front board; top edge cut other edges uncut. Stourton Press. 4to. full vellum; title and publisher gilt stamped on spine symbol gilt-stamped on front board; top edge cut other edges uncut. xxiv 971 pages. Limited to 158 numbered copies printed on paper. and eight copies printed on vellum. Modern British and American Private Presses 1850-1965 175. This copy printed on paper. Decorations at the beginning of each act by Eliot Hodgkin and the decoration for the preface by Edward le Bas. Title page notes "written in imitation of Shakespeare's stile." Epistle dedicatory to the Earl of Danby preface list of alterations from the first edition of 1678 list of the publisher's errata. Boards lightly soiled endpapers lightly tanned. The Stourton Press unknown books
1709001345London: H. Hills in Black-Fryars near the Water-side 1709. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Early edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 16 pages. Hardcover; bound in 3/4 leather and blue cloth with gilt spine lettering circa 1900. Binding is moderately to heavily rubbed and worn. The text has been trimmed with loss of page numbers at the top of several leaves. The final leaf is browned. Minor staining to top-edge of leaves. A complete early edition of this work by Dryden. H. Hills, in Black-Fryars, near the Water-side Hardcover books
1854107643Little Brown 1854. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Little Brown and Company Boston 1854. Half-Leather w/ Marbled Paper. Very Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Volumes 1 2 and 3 of a 5 volume set; half leather w/marbled paper over boards marbled endpapers and edges. Raised bands and ornate gilt decoration on spine. Clean solid. In each volume on the front paste down there is a bookplate stating that the books were donated to the YMCA as part of a library given in honor of Justus Lawrence on Yonkers N.Y. However based on the condition of the set it does not appear any of the Young Men ever opened the books and there are no library markings in any of the books. Little, Brown hardcover books
1928WRCLIT52430London: Etchells & Macdonald 1928. Quarto. Cloth and marbled boards. First edition ordinary issue. One of 525 numbered copies from a total edition of 580. Small tasteful collector's bookplate on pastedown endsheets a bit darkened at gutters edges a bit rubbed else a very good copy in darkened and lightly chipped dust jacket with a couple small spots. GALLUP B7b. Etchells & Macdonald hardcover books
17261448London: J. Tonson 1726. Hardcover. Very Good. Fifth Edition. 22 fine engraved plates. Contemporary calf rebacked endpapers renewed; frontispiece torn in blank upper and outer margins and rehinged with cellotape with resulting discoloratiion in gutter. Despite flaws a nice book solidly bound. <br/><br/> J. Tonson hardcover books
17251264623Sold by William and John Innys 1725. thin 8vo.; VG; paperback green spine wrapped with green paper; housed in plastic sleeve; covers worn; minor bumping to corners of text; 'Virgil's husbandry written in ink on reverse of frontispiece; contains the following: Title page and frontispiece; The Preface xv; Notes unpaginated 15pp; Virgil's Husbandry frontispiece 50pp.; GP consignment; shelved case 4. 1264623. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Sold by William and John Innys unknown books
19292887San Francisco: John Henry Nash 1929 2 volumes. Quarto and octavo. The second smaller volume is a facsimile of the first edition. One of 250 copies printed by John Henry Nash. Color plates. Parchment-backed rose boards spine gilt-lettered top edges gilt. Complimentary slip tipped-in. Small bookplate else a fine set housed in a split-level slipcase. John Henry Nash hardcover books
1687WRCLIT64941London: Printed for Jacob Tonson . 1687. 81451pp. Quarto. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Light foxing half-title neatly detached small nonce index number in outer upper corner of title else about very good. Denoted the "third edition" but counting the Dublin and Edinburgh editions the fifth overall all printed the same year. This impression was probably printed from standing type for Tonson's "second" edition. MACDONALD 24e. WING D2285. ESTC R17798. Printed for Jacob Tonson ... unknown books
