3 résultats
1799MB42633Good. 3 3/8 x 2 3/8 inches pictorial silk over paper spine stitched cloth separated from lower cover insect damage to top of upper cover. hardcover books
1798MB42632Good: light stain to lower corner of first few leaves. 3 3/8 x 2 1/2 inches pictorial silk over paper spine stitched paper cover label fabric lacking from lower cover Text in Japanese. This is a miniature edition of a title first published in 1778 and subsequently reprinted in many editions. books
180092London: Longman and Rees 1800. First Miniature Edition. Tooled leather with gilding. Very Good. Cook. 12mo tooled and gilt-stamped leather with four hubs engraved frontispiece of Dr. Johnson by Cook frontis. & t.p. iii-iv advert. 284 pages. Very Rare! Edited by Rev. Joseph Hamilton. Handy edition of the redoubtable Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary with its marvellous definitions. Published in 1800 during the raging Napoleonic wars with France see also the somewhat later inscription to a French ship's captain below. Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 or more commonly "Dr. Johnson" or "the Great Cham" was a brilliant English writer devout Anglican and Tory who made his reputation as a poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and most lastingly as a lexicographer. His Dictionary of the English Language is noteworthy for its extent comprehensiveness and use of pithy definitions. James Boswell of course memorialized the life and sayings of the great doctor. So uncommon it has NOT been identified by Courtney & Smith Johnson Bibliography with Supplement e.g. pp.57-59. The eighth edition of A Dictionary of the English Language appeared in 1799; the ninth edition in 1805. The upper cap of the spine is missing and the volume is rubbed with wear evident along the hinges and corners but the sewing is strong and the pages are clean with minimal toning. Minor brown offset from the fine engraved frontispiece of Dr. Johnson onto the title page. Bookstamp of bookseller "E. Desbois Bordeaux"; marbled endpapers. Interesting ink presentation on ffe: "To / J or "T" Beck Esqr. / commanding the French / packett Esteva on / her passage from Bordeaux / to Vera Cruz in Nov. 1831 ~ by his most obedt / humble servant / L. L. Becker" Longman and Rees hardcover books
