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1806227138London Stanhope Press 1806. 1806. Small 8vo. With three engraved plates by Anthony Garden; P.W. Tomkins after Richard Westall. Full contemporary brown calf with spines stamped in gilt speckled edges. 3 volumes. Very good. Bookplate of Carl Downes on the front pastedown of all 3 volumes. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Stanhope Press, 1806. hardcover 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
18541287735Boston: Little Brown and Company 1854. First Editions Thus. small 8vos. 5 volumes; VG; 3/4 bound in light brown leather marbled boards; spines paneled with two labels one burgundy and one black both with gilt lettering other panels with gilt tooling; marbled text blocks; volume 1 has frontispiece with tissue guard; some chipping to heads of spines primarily to volumes 1 and 2; mild wear to boards spine; volume 1 missing small piece of one label on spine; bookplates on front pastedowns of all volumes dated 1867; shelved above native american studies. 1287735. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Little, Brown, and Company unknown 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
16753235London: Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman 1675. Third edition. 4to. 1268pp. Later boards head of spine chipped and endpapers a bit browned. Minor worming at bottom blank margin of last few leaves text unaffected. The third edition of Dryden's first play. Wing D2348. Macdonald 67c. Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman hardcover 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
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
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
70390hardcover. numerous illus. some in color. 309pp. 8vo cloth d.w. Caldwell: Caxton Printers 1950.<br/><br/> The journals of Ross Cox a fur trader 1812-1817 and Alexander Ross a servant to three fur companies.<br/><br/> unknown books
193246347New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1932. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 19cm.; purple publisher's cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering in a green pictorial dustwrapper; 305pp. Boards showing minimal wear throughout; Fine. Textblock toned on edges and page margins; bottom edge stained. Pages clear and sound Near Fine. Dustwrapper shows some surface wear with soiling visible on lighter portions. Toning on edges; spine also toned with chipping at crown. Wrapper edges have some rolling and small tears; larger tear w/ material loss on upper front panel. Wrappers are Very Good. A novel about the unfurling of a widow's past life and loves as she journeys to New York City for a day. Title card laid-in. Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
1911299394London: Mowbray 1911. First. hardcover. near fine. 13 black & white illustrations 180 pages 12mo decorative red cloth some light edgewear and spotting. London: Mowbray 1911. First Edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Early ownership name on fly-leaf<br/><br/> Mowbray unknown books
1862240442London: Adam and Charles Black 1862. First edition. With 5 folding maps. iv 40 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original green cloth. Fine copy. First edition. With 5 folding maps. iv 40 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Westwood & Satchell p. 81 Adam and Charles Black unknown books
185920755Boston: Little Brown and Company 1859. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine. 5 Volumes large 8vos. Bindings of textured brown cloth embossed in b blind on the boards and spines. and with gilt titles on the spines. Chocolate-colored coated endpapers. Publisher's catalogue dated March 1859 bound in the front of volume 1 between the pastedown and free endpaper. This is a set in original publisher's cloth in superb condition. The cloth is still bright and fresh with hardly any trace of age or wear. Dryden issued his translation of Plutarch's Lives from 1683-1686. Clough corrected the Greek text an revised the Dryden translation accordingly to make it more accurate and faithful to Plutarch. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
177626789London: John Bell 1776. 12mo various pagination. series: Bell's British Tragedies Volume the Fifth The third volume of Tragedies. Containing: "All For Love Dryden The Orphan Otway Tancred and Sigismunda Thomson George Barnwell Lillo and Isabella altered from Southerne. 5 plays each with frontispiece engraving. Disbound ageing lacking rear covers front separate. John Bell unknown books
1692260122London: Printed for Jacob Tonson 1692. 1 vols. Small 4to. Bound in modern half red morocco rubbed text a little browned. 1 vols. Small 4to. Wing D 2270; Pforzheimer 324 Printed for Jacob Tonson unknown books
1930WRCLIT84729Pittsburgh: The Bentley Press 1930. Sewn printed wrappers. Wrappers dust smudged otherwise a very good copy. First edition thus. Virgil's poem printed by Wilder Bentley on Fabriano as his 1930 Christmas greeting. Edition size unspecified. HAAS BENTLEY 1. The Bentley Press unknown books
168532955London: Printed for Richard Bentley and Mary Magnes 1685. 2nd edition MacDonald 118b; TC II 118; Wing B-664. Later full brown calf binding executed in a period style. Spine sunned. Usually browning to paper with t.p. a bit grubby. Catchwords / running titles occasionally shaved by binder's knife. Bookplate of 'Kenneth Rapoport'. A VG copy. 8 62 2 pp. 4to: A - I4. 8-5/8" x 6-1/2" <br/><br/>Dryden contributed the Epilogue. Printed for Richard Bentley and Mary Magnes 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