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176857889Norwich: Sold By M Booth. 1768. Hardcover. Very Good. Two Parts bound in one 4pp 647pp 5pp index 2 plates present believed 6 other illus lacking odd mark in text prelims darkened bound in recent smart brown cloth; Octavo . Sold By M Booth hardcover
178961836Halifax: J Milner. 1789. Hardcover. Very Good. 648pp 70pp old sellotape mark on title page 1 corner of title page missing not affecting text sm chip in margin of 2pps bound in full leather nicely re-spined new front endpaper; Small Octavo . J Milner hardcover
17404544169Tewkesbury 1740. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. In the original marbled boards. Very worn and chipped. Front board detached but present. Backstrip missing. Some pen inscriptions. Light off-setting pages otherwise clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item300grams ISBN: Tewkesbury hardcover
1800green124361. good. . no dustjacket 1800 J Barfield split to spine bookplate some foxing with fold out maps clean tight copy . 1800. Hardcover. hardcover
17641776426974DPBPrinted for J. Nourse 1764. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1764. 2nd Edition. 522 pages. No dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt lettering. Vol.1. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. cracking to hinges with exposed netting and a loose binding. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed. Prominent forward lean to text block. Splitting to spine joints. Loss to both ends of spine. Printed for J. Nourse hardcover
17952212220028Printed for the author London Corresponding Society 1795. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The Expansion of Universal Suffrage in Great Britain 16 pages. Rare radical pamphlet arguing for a reform of the House of Commons with universal manhood suffrage and annual Parliaments. A proposal of political reform in line with the writings of Charles Lennox the Duke of Richmond and Thomas Paine. The pamphlet ends with a radical appeal for reform "There is no hope but from the people's legal exertion except in the event of a civil war if they should be driven to it which is too dreadful to think on. Reform or revolution." The influence of the French Revolution on Britain. ESTC T35925. Printed for the author (London Corresponding Society) hardcover
1778016272London 1778. Book measures 42x32.cm. Complete with 652pp plus 35pp summer number extensively illustrated throughout. Bound in original publishers blue gilt cloth. Some abrasion wear on edges. Binding in good clean condition. Internally inner joints split contents holding. Pages and illustrations in very good clean near fine condition. A very clean copy in a good binding. . Cloth. Near Very Good. Folio. Hardcover
1775011891London: The Author Sold by W.Flexney in Holborn 1775. 2nd ed. 1st 1774 . Hardcover. VG for age. 22 cms x 27 Cms. half-titlet.p.12; main fault is lower gutter opening between pp.2/3 last page tanned border tanning to half-title and t.p. also faintly throughout; bound in grey boards with new grey end-papers title and date neatly hand written top centre front and title only to spine. <br/> <br/> The Author, Sold by W.Flexney, in Holborn hardcover
1800045663sl: sn 1800. Broadside. Very Good Condition. Single sheet worn and soiled chipping at edges title in an old hand to verso bleeding through - with three attractive woodcuts at top. The same text as Evans 49645 with similar woodcuts but with A Virtuous Life appended - the AAS gives a date of between 1790 and 1810. The ESTC shows only the AAS copy. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045663. <br/><br/> sn unknown books
1800045663sl: sn 1800. Broadside. Very Good Condition. Single sheet worn and soiled chipping at edges title in an old hand to verso bleeding through - with three attractive woodcuts at top. The same text as Evans 49645 with similar woodcuts but with A Virtuous Life appended - the AAS gives a date of between 1790 and 1810. The ESTC shows only the AAS copy. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045663. <br/><br/> sn unknown
172654527A Bettesworth Bettersworth 1726-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. Small tooled leather bound volume first edition 1726 issue printed for A. Bettesworth at the Red-Lyon. Ink to second free front endpaper and first free rear endpaper. Text unmarked. Tight binding. First edition with half-title. 12mo. xii 184 8 pp Please email for photos. A Bettesworth [Bettersworth] hardcover
1736298601United Kingdom: A Bettesworth & C Hitch 1736. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback second edition 12mo. Modern tan calf ruled gilt raised bands to the spine with gilt title on blue morocco compartments with repeated gilt design and dated 1736 to the foot. Marbled endpapers all edges and inner dentelles gilt. Bookplate of F W Sims to the front pastedown. Browning and sporadic spotting lightly scuffed to the upper board the binding tight and the body of text free from markings inscriptions etc. . A Bettesworth & C Hitch Hardcover
1785784R7Bath: W. Gye 1785. Leather. Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A very scarce and unusual pocket guide to evading and escaping the law written by 'an eminent Barrister at law'. ESTC Citation No. T224641.With instructions against the imposition and extortion of the bailiff and gaoler.Penned by 'an Eminent Barrister at Law'.A fascinating criminal work printed in Bath and bound in the original leather. In a half calf binding. Externally a trifle worn with the front joint starting; all calf corners are lost boards are rather worn and spine is rubbed. Internally generally firmly bound with a strain to the front hinge. Pages have the odd spot. Good W. Gye hardcover
177961755Edinburgh: Printed for John Bell. 1779. Hardcover. Very Good. The Second Edition with considerable additions xxviii 438pp 3 plates last plate torn in half and lower illustrations from ti pasted onto rear endpaper bound in full lether raised bands red leather spine label; Octavo . Printed for John Bell hardcover
1741060579London: Company of Stationers print.by W.Bower 1741. Hardcover. Good /Slipcase Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. unpaginated: HB 4 band; dark red w/gilt leather-strip dividers w/gilt trim; rubbed w/edges & corners worn; front cover detached; spine sunned w/1741 on spine; hinge cracked; front endpapers detaching; clean tight pgs. Slipcase dark red w/no title-curved edge dark red ribbon; w/'Royal Binding Geo.II Almanacs 1741 written on spine some rub w/wear on edges & corners. Title continues: "Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the Study and Practice of the Mathematicks. . The first Almanack ever published of this Kind." Months Woman's Almanack 1741 Almanacks Ephemeris Poor Robin. <br/> <br/> Company of Stationers (print.by W.Bower) hardcover
1789015652London: Printed for Couch and Laking 1789. Unbound. 4261pp including half title. Some dust/dirt marking to firstlast page. Pages in good clean condition. A good copy. . First Edition. Very Good. 8vo. Printed for Couch and Laking unknown
17981809130105London : Print. by Sampson Low 1798. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Bound in contemporary leather-backed marbled boards. Joints worn partially cracked. Engraved frontispiece. Half-title 2 187 pages. A book instructing young women on conduct through life. "The Female Aegis. outlines for its young female readership the three areas in which "the influence of the female character is most important": 1 In contributing daily and hourly to the comfort of husbands of parents of brothers and sisters.in the intercourse of domestic life under every vicissitude of sickness and health of joy and affliction. 2 IN forming and improving the general manners disposition and conduct of the other sex by society and example. 3 In modeling the human mind during the early stages of its growth and fixing while it is still ductile its growing principle of action. The text advocates a kind of educational reform for young women "drawing forth the reasoning power of girls into action" through their instruction in "geography natural history portions of general history and popular facts in astronomy and in other sciences" - Andrew O'Malley The Making of the Modern Child: Children's Literature in the Late Eighteenth Century Routledge 2004 p. 114. London : Print. by Sampson Low hardcover
1787045863London: H. Gardner 1787. Third Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary acid calf light wear at the edges spine cracked in the center and book a bit over opened but binding still sound. Identified as the Third Edition on the title though it went through a few editions with slightly different titles since it was first published in 1754. 2 volumes bound as 1; 211pp; 210pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No: 045863. <br/><br/> H. Gardner hardcover books
1787045863London: H. Gardner 1787. Third Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary acid calf light wear at the edges spine cracked in the center and book a bit over opened but binding still sound. Identified as the Third Edition on the title though it went through a few editions with slightly different titles since it was first published in 1754. 2 volumes bound as 1; 211pp; 210pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No: 045863. <br/><br/> H. Gardner hardcover
17991401150084New-York : Printed by George Forman 1799-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Early New York Printing Full contemporary leather binding. Toning/ scattered spotting throughout. A few leaves loose. Lacking pages 5-8. Contents identical with those of v. 1 of the two volume work of this title Evans 35296 printed by Shepard Kollock for Davis in 1798. Plays and stories intended for moral education. Includes an interesting account of the plague in London. New-York : Printed by George Forman hardcover
1794016974London: Printed for J. Debrett 1794. Book measures 16x9.5.cm. 1736pp. Bound in period full red morocco gilt tooling full gilt edges marble endpapers. Binding heavily worn hinge joints split boards holding. Internally pages clean. A good copy. . Full Calf. Good Plus. 12mo. Printed for J. Debrett Hardcover
1780228287London n.p. September 4 1780. 1780. 8vo. Later tan wrappers. 8 pages. Scarce. Extensive discussion of the losses in the war with America France and Spain. Sabin 21474. Soft cover. Very Good. [London, n.p., September 4, 1780]. paperback books
18005138London J. Pitt C. 1800 C 1800. Première édition. Un petit livre de chapitres. Couvertures en papier jaune, contenant 12 chansons et trois gravures sur bois. En bon état. Il s'agit d'un objet jetable, brut et prêt à l'emploi. Le titre jaune a été imprimé de manière décentrée et les pages dépassent un peu. Légères traces d'usure sur les pages, mais dans l'ensemble en bon état. Certaines pages ne sont pas coupées. 16 pages. Ce recueil compile des chansons populaires interprétées au Theatre Royal, Drury Lane et dans d'autres lieux publics à une époque où la musique et la chanson faisaient partie intégrante de la vie théâtrale et sociale à Londres. Drury Lane, sous la direction de personnalités comme David Garrick (1747-1776), était un centre majeur pour la musique théâtrale, y compris l'opéra comique, les interludes et les chansons intégrées dans les pièces et les représentations. J. Pitts (John Pitts) était un important imprimeur de ballades de rue londonien, actif entre 1765 et 1844 environ. Il travaillait dans le quartier de Seven Dials, un centre réputé pour sa production d'imprimés populaires et bon marché à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au début du XIXe siècle. Pitts s'est spécialisé dans l'impression de broadsides - feuilles individuelles contenant des ballades, des chansons et des vers d'actualité - destinés à la consommation publique de masse. 10 cm x 7 cm. Nous n'avons pas trouvé de notice WorldCat / OCLC pour ce titre.
18005138London: J. Pitt C. 1800. C 1800. First edition. A small chapbook. Yellow paper covers containing 12 songs and three woodcuts. In good condition. It is a rough and ready disposable item. The yellow title has been printed off centre and the pages jut out a little. Slight edgewear to the pages but overall in good clean condition. Some pages uncut. 16 pages. This collection compiles popular songs performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and other public venues during a period when music and song were integral to both theatrical and social life in London. Drury Lane under the management of figures like David Garrick 1747–1776 was a major centre for theatrical music including comic opera interludes and songs woven into plays and performances. J. Pitts John Pitts was a prominent London street ballad printer active from approximately 1765 to 1844. He operated in the Seven Dials district a well-known center for popular and cheap print production in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Pitts specialized in printing broadsides—single sheets featuring ballads songs and topical verses—intended for mass public consumption. 10cm x 7cm. We cannot find a WorldCat / OCLC entry for this title. . C 1800. Première édition. Un petit livre de chapitres. Couvertures en papier jaune contenant 12 chansons et trois gravures sur bois. En bon état. Il s'agit d'un objet jetable brut et prêt à l'emploi. Le titre jaune a été imprimé de manière décentrée et les pages dépassent un peu. Légères traces d'usure sur les pages mais dans l'ensemble en bon état. Certaines pages ne sont pas coupées. 16 pages. Ce recueil compile des chansons populaires interprétées au Theatre Royal Drury Lane et dans d'autres lieux publics à une époque où la musique et la chanson faisaient partie intégrante de la vie théâtrale et sociale à Londres. Drury Lane sous la direction de personnalités comme David Garrick 1747-1776 était un centre majeur pour la musique théâtrale y compris l'opéra comique les interludes et les chansons intégrées dans les pièces et les représentations. J. Pitts John Pitts était un important imprimeur de ballades de rue londonien actif entre 1765 et 1844 environ. Il travaillait dans le quartier de Seven Dials un centre réputé pour sa production d'imprimés populaires et bon marché à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au début du XIXe siècle. Pitts s'est spécialisé dans l'impression de broadsides - feuilles individuelles contenant des ballades des chansons et des vers d'actualité - destinés à la consommation publique de masse. 10 cm x 7 cm. Nous n'avons pas trouvé de notice WorldCat / OCLC pour ce titre. J. Pitt unknown
1711012691London: Printed for A. Baldwin 1711. Book measures 18x11.cm. 444pp. Bound in modern full panelled leather raised bands blind stamped tooling leather label. Binding in fine condition. Internally pages clean. A very nice copy of a rare book. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. Small Quarto. Printed for A. Baldwin Hardcover