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191583527Yokohama: Printed by the Japan Gazette Co. Ltd 1915. Paperback. Near Fine. 1 102-116p. Small softcover periodical. No separate wrapper. 12cm. Light wear only. An "Amateur Press" oddity. Dryden who lists his mailing address as c/o Thos. Cook & Son Bombay India appears to have been a member of the British Amateur Press Association. The contentsof this issue are eclectic -- the longest contribution is by N. M. Bux of Hong Kong a 3 1/2 page item about his near drowning. <br/><br/> Printed by the Japan Gazette Co., Ltd paperback books
177273349Dublin: Printed for W. Smith H. Bradley and T. Edwing Booksellers. 1772. 12mo. iv 283 pp. Full brown calf with a gilt title label and the initials 'E. R.' to the spine. Rubbing at the binding's edge with chipping and loss to the spine and corners. Scratches and markings to the boards and splitting at the hinges. Enclosed tears to the bottom of the prelims. Leaves darkened with creasing throughout alongside scattered spots and foxing particularly at the extremities. Ink ownership marking to the the front pastedown and first free endpaper. An uncommon edition of these satirical dialogues. . Good. Full Calf. 1772. Printed for W. Smith, H. Bradley, and T. Edwing, Booksellers. 1772 unknown
169852732London: Printed for Jacob Tonson 1698. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Folio. 2 690pp. 102 plates incl. frontispiece. Later green leather binding extensive decorative gilt decor framing the covers gilt lettering tooling and ruling on spine. Gilt edges and dentelles. Frontispiece engraving. Title page printed in red and black with black double framing. Dedicated to Hugh Lord Clifford. Engravings by W. Hollar after Francis Cleyn's artwork. This second edition was published one year after the first emphazising the popularity of this important book It was conceived created and circulated by John Dryden and the publisher Jacob Tonson.<br /> <br /> Illustrated with one hundred and one full page copperplate engravings. With postscript to the reader and notes and observations on Virgil's works in English at rear. Some scuffing along foredges and front joint minor at rear joint and light scuffing and rubbed in center gilt framing. Lightly starting at inside front cover. Light offsetting from title page to frontispiece. Light sporadic damp-staining in block. Small circular sticker on inside back cover. Born in Cisalpine Gaul Virgil Publius Vergillius Maro 70-19 BCE published his first collection of poems Eclogues around 38 BCE and the Georgics in 29 BCE. Both titles illustrating the greatness of the Roman Empire were widely read due to "the technical perfection of his verse" Oxford Companion to Classical Literature after Virgil had become part of the poetic circle around Maecena giving Virgil accress to Octavian the future emperor Augustus.<br /> <br /> Musing the idyllic life of shepards in northern Italy in the Pastorals meditating on the nature of agriculture in the Georgics and in his great epic the Aneid following in the tradition of Homer. While the Pastorals were still likened to the poetry of other poets the Georgics were considered unprecedented. The inscriptions on Virgils tombstone "cesini pascua rura duces" I sang of farms fields and heroes captures the scope of these three works. Dryden's translation triggered a surge in popularity of the works of Virgil among English speaking people. Printed for Jacob Tonson hardcover
175482407R Tonson and S Draper. 1754. Hardcover. Very Good. xcix 1 294pp bound in full leather respined in leather gilt lining raised bands red leather spine label new endpapers; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . R Tonson and S Draper hardcover
1332966934.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0259387665.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, neat signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of navy blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Includes Roger Boyle: The Tragedy of Mustapha; Elkanah Settle: The Empress of Morocco; John Crowne: The Destruction of Jerusalem Part II; Nathaniel Lee: Sophonisha; John Dryden: Aureng-Zebe. WC 576.
0267983247.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1961mon0000072444University of California Press 1961-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. 1956 edition. Hardback with dust cover; in good condition. Clean text sound binding. University of California Press hardcover
16929190Printed for Jacon Tonson at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-Lane near Fleet Street 1692. Sm. 4to. First Edition some mild age-staining and spotting throughout; modern grey boards paper label lettered in black on upper board one or two upper margins closely shaved else a crisp firm copy. Dryden's second-to-last play and according to MacDonald partially completed by Southerne. Its first performance should have been early in April 1692 but on the 9th it was prohibited; it was acted out on or before 16 April at the Theatre Royal. In his Dedication Dryden attributes the lifting of the ban to Rochester the dedicatee who had represented the drama to the Queen as 'wholly innocent of those Crimes which were laid unjustly to its Charge'. The Life of Cleomenes is supplied by Creech from Plutarch; see MacDonald 131. In this copy as often the Prologue and Epilogue appear before the 'Life'. CBEL II p.267; MacDonald 92. Printed for Jacon Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-Lane near Fleet Street, hardcover
178479Printed at the Stanhope Press by Charles Whittingham for John Sharpe 1806. 16mo 5¼ x 3¼ ins. 2 vols in 1. Contemporary full polished calf spine elaborately gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting labels boards with double gilt fillet border and gilt tooled at edges marbled endpapers and blue sprinkled edges lightly rubbed at edge of spine - otherwise VG. Pp. iv 132 & 134 4 blank no inscriptions. Printed at the Stanhope Press by Charles Whittingham for John Sharpe, 1806 unknown
25203LONDON HENRY HERRINGTON 1669. VERY NICELY REBOUND IN HALF CALF OVER BROWN CLOTH NEW ENDPAPERS GILT TITLES. FROM THE LIBRARY OF DOUGLAS GRANT CHAIR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS WITH HIS SIGNATURE IN PENCIL. TITLE PAGE PREFACE vi 68pp. A VERY GOOD AND HANDSOME COPY. LONDON, HENRY HERRINGTON, 1669 hardcover
18704THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. 1957. CHOSEN AND INTRODUCED BY GWYN JONES. DRAWINGS IN FULL COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE BY LAVINIA BLYTHE. ONE OF 500 COPIES DESIGNED AND PUBLISHED BY CHRISTOPHER SANDFORD THIS BEING NUMBER 153. FOLIO BOUND IN QUARTER LEATHER OVER GREY CLOTH. A VERY NICE COPY FROM NEWCASTLE LIBRARY WITH A STAMP ON THE REVERSE OF THE TITLE PAGE AN ACCESSION NUMBER ON THE SPINE AND THE SMALL REMAINS OF A LABLE ON THE FEP. THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. 1957 hardcover
25204LONDON HENRY HERRINGTON 1686. VERY NICELY REBOUND IN HALF CALF OVER BROWN CLOTH NEW ENDPAPERS GILT TITLES. FROM THE LIBRARY OF DOUGLAS GRANT CHAIR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS WITH HIS SIGNATURE IN PENCIL. TITLE PAGE DEDICATION ivi PROLOGUE i 62pp. ADVERTS ii. A VERY GOOD AND HANDSOME COPY. LONDON, HENRY HERRINGTON, 1686 hardcover
151180Printed at the Stanhope Press by Charles Whittingham for J. Sharpe and W. Suttaby 1807. 3 vols. 16mo 5¼ x 3½ ins. Contemporary full tree calf spines gilt tooled in six compartments boards with gilt rolled and blind-stamped borders board edges gilt tooled red speckled edges and marbled endpapers some light wear at edges - otherwise a VG set. Pp. iv 161 3 blank & iv 191 5 blank & iv vii 177 5 blank illus with 3 engraved plates front and rear prelims lightly spotted; no inscriptions. Printed at the Stanhope Press by Charles Whittingham for J. Sharpe and W. Suttaby, 1807 unknown
1811hw303.002GB: F C and J Rivington and Others 1811. Old pale brown full leather. Spines are lettered quadruple ruled and decorated in gold. Frontispiece portrait has browne dtitel page opposite. Armorial bookplates of Campbell of Stonefield in vols 1 3 and 4 removed in 2. Very clean tight books butspines a little rubbed/worn. Set is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY 2025 GB £8. Packed weight 3000g. . Hardback. VG/No DW. F C and J Rivington and Others Hardcover
185228855William Pickering 1852. 4 vols. of 5 8vo. small neat signature on front free endpaper of first volume; original plum cloth backstrips with printed paper labels one label chipped uncut a remarkably bright clean run in wholly unrestored publisher's binding. With the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry William Pownall on front paste-downs of all volumes. A most unusually bright crisp clean run tragically wanting the last volume. Pickering's Dryden was first published in 1843. VERY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Aldine Poets 21222324 respectively. William Pickering, hardcover
30743LONDON 1684 AND 1692. TWO WORKS BY DRYDEN BOUND IN MODERN 1934 FULL BROWN LEATHER. THE STATE OF INNOCENCE AND THE FALL OF MAN AN OPERA. PRINTED BY H.H. FOR HENRY HERRINGMAN 1684. DEDICATION 4pp POEM OF PARADISE 2pp AUTHOR'S APOLOGY 6pp STATE OF INNOCENCE 26pp. BOUND WITH OEDIPUS; A TRAGEDY BY DRYDEN AND MR. LEE FOURTH EDITION PRINTED FOR RICHARD BENTLEY COVENT GARDEN 1692. PREFACE 2pp DRAMATIS PERSONAE 1pp PROLOGUE 1pp OEDIPUS 71pp EPILOGUE 1pp. NEW ENDPAPERS BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. BROWNING OF PAGES COMMENSURATE WITH THE AGE. NOTE THAT THE AGE OF INNOCENCE IS INCOMPLETE ENDING AT ACT V SCENE 1 PARADISE PARAGRAPH 11.'EVE - PLEASE THEN YOUR SELF WITH ME.'. FINE BINDING WITH A FEW MARKS TO THE LEATHER. VERY SCARCE. LONDON, 1684 AND 1692 hardcover
25208LONDON. WILLIAM MILLER. 1808. ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES HISTORICAL CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY WALTER SCOTT. 18 VOLUMES COMPLETE. OCTAVO FULL CALF ALL EDGES AND END PAPERS MARBLED GILT TITLES. VERY SLIGHT WEAR TO THE LEATHER AND ONE VOLUME HAS A DETACHED BOARD BUT A VERY CLEAN AND TIGHT SET. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED. FROM THE LIBRARY OF DOUGLAS GRANT CHAIR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS WITH HIS SIGNATURE IN PENCIL. EACH VOLUME HAS THE ARMOURIAL BOOKPLATE OF BARON ST. JOHN OF BLETSOE BEDFORDSHIRE. LONDON. WILLIAM MILLER. 1808 hardcover
25205LONDON HENRY HERRINGTON 1686. VERY NICELY REBOUND IN HALF CALF OVER BROWN CLOTH NEW ENDPAPERS GILT TITLES. FROM THE LIBRARY OF DOUGLAS GRANT CHAIR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS WITH HIS SIGNATURE IN PENCIL. TITLE PAGE DEDICATION ii PREFACE iv PROLOGUE ii 60pp. adverts ii. A VERY GOOD AND HANDSOME COPY. LONDON, HENRY HERRINGTON, 1686 hardcover
12mo., with 2 engraved plates; twentieth century grey boards, upper board with printed paper label, a very good, bright, crisp copy.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, some mild age-staining and spotting throughout; modern grey boards, paper label lettered in black on upper board, one or two upper margins closely shaved else a crisp, firm copy. Dryden's second-to-last play, and according to MacDonald partially completed by Southerne. Its first performance should have been early in April 1692, but on the 9th it was prohibited; it was acted out on or before 16 April at the Theatre Royal. In his Dedication Dryden attributes the lifting of the ban to Rochester (the dedicatee), who had represented the drama to the Queen as 'wholly innocent of those Crimes which were laid unjustly to its Charge'. The Life of Cleomenes is supplied by Creech (from Plutarch; see MacDonald 131). In this copy, as often, the Prologue and Epilogue appear before the 'Life'. CBEL II, p.267; MacDonald, 92.
2 vols., 8vo., some underlining in first volume, neat signature on blank preliminaries; original series binding of plum cloth, gilt backs, ochre tops, patterned endpapers, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. This unabridged, two-volume edition was first published in EL in 1962. EL 568, 569; Seymour 294.0, 295.0 respectively.
8vo., original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in OSA in 1962.
4 vols., [of 5], 8vo., small neat signature on front free endpaper of first volume; original plum cloth, backstrips with printed paper labels (one label chipped), uncut, a remarkably bright, clean run in wholly unrestored publisher's binding. With the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry William Pownall on front paste-downs of all volumes. A most unusually bright, crisp, clean run tragically wanting the last volume. Pickering's Dryden was first published in 1843. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Aldine Poets, 21,22,23,24 respectively.
