john wilson croker editor (11 risultati)

Condizione: Good. a new edition. Half calf over marbled boards, G++. xxiv+874pp, b/w frontis, engraved title, 10 b/w plates, a nice copy, paper label cut from upper board removing a square of the marbled paper, spine & gilt decoration in nice condition. An edited version of Boswells Life, printed in double column. The most famous biography in the English language. 1550 grams.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Volumne l, 584 pp. Croker, an Anglo-Irish statesman, was an author, and First Secretary of the Admiralty. This volume has a manuscript LETTER BY CROKER, dated 1819, regarding the purchase of a portrait at the Royal Academy. An obituary of the editor Louis J. Jennings tipped to back of front blank. Engraving of Sir Robert Peel tipped to back of front free end paper. Brown cloth, gilt designs and lettering front cover & spine. Very Good. Clean, unmarked, age-toned, front end papers glued at inner margins. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Original copy, vintage rebinding in medium blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Cloth shows foxing/spotting on spine panel and along front joint, more minor spotting to both covers, tanned text block edges. xxiv,874 pp. Former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover. Volumes shows engraved first title/frontis. (multiple portraits of Johnson, with tissue guard) from John Murray (London) edition, followed by second title with Little, Brown imprint -- unknown whether this curiosity is original to issue. The "new edition" of Croker was initially issued in 1831 and remained the best edition of Boswell's Johnson for numerous decades thereafter. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

New edition. With Portraits. Edited by The Right Hon. John Wilson Croker. In One Volume. Frontispiece - tissue-guarded plate of six engraved portraits of Johnson. Vignette line drawing of Johnson on half-title. 10 other full-page plates. Contents: Preface to Mr Croker's edition, Original Title, Original Dedication to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr Boswell's advertisements, Mr Malone's Advertisements, Chapter I - LXXXII, + Appendix No. I - No. VII. xxx, 874 pp + 2 pp ads. Foxing on prelims esp. frontispiece engraving. Otherwise text clean throughout except for some spots of foxing on edges. Text contained within ruled margins. Binding sound. Green eps. Previous owner's bookplate on fep. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt vignette on front board. Top and bottom of spine rubbed and a little frayed. Spine sunned. Corners and one patch on edge of front board rubbed. Overall condition VG.

Hardcover. Octavo, Three volumes. In Fair condition. Spines are brown with gold print. Boards in brown cloth with gold and black print. Spine caps worn or torn away, corners exposed, first volume has bent front corner. Text blocks have owner label on front pastedown, first volume has tanning to title page, all volumes have cracked hinges and intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece in first two volumes. CONTENTS: Vol. 1. lxiv, 350 pages - Vol. 2. viii, 389 pages - Vol. 3. viii, 436 pages + 16-page publisher catalog. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Multi-Volume Area (ND-MV). 1374542. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Second Edition. 2 Volumes. Binding interiors have been nicely repaired, very good; old cut to vol. 1 spine cloth but again very neatly repaired; new soft yellow endpapers near-perfectly laid over the old. Minor rubbing to the extremities, Volume 1 title-page is beginning to detach, otherwise very good. Previous owner's name tag of book-collector Alex Pratt to either ffep. Bound in brown cloth with gilt arms to the front covers and gilt title to the spines, black-tooled decoration along the front cover and spine top edges. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait to volume 1 (fine tissue). Vol. 1, (xiii)+584 pages. Vol. 2, (ix)+572 pages. Photos available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

[Biography] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition, with notes etc. In four volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 12cm), pp.xxxvi; 25-468 [2]; pp.[2] 479 [3]; pp.[2] 452 [6]; pp.[2] 452 [6]. With an engraved frontispiece to volumes I and II. Contemporary tan half calf, with raised bands and gilt titles to black labels on spines. Marbled paper over boards. Spotting to preliminaries. Light black ink ownership notes to free endpapers, dated 1866. Wear to board edges; corners bumped. Light speckling of white paint over spine of volume I. Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover, ten volume set. Bound with maroon leather spines and corners, marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers and foreedges as well. All the bindings are good and tight and attractive. Some slight wear to corners here and there, but never significant. Bookplate of George Phillips Parker on the inside front cover of all 10 volumes. Text illustrated with plates and including some folding plates and some facsimile handwritten pages. The editor, Croker, adds 2 volumes of other writings which seems to include many of Johnson's prefaces. Books measure 4.25 x 6.5 inches. They sit on 11.5 inches of shelf space. International shipping will require extra postage because there are so many volumes. Please email with questions.

Condizione: Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Biography on the King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1760. George II (1683 - 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from June 1727 until his death in 1760. Condition: VG+ for 175-year-old plus volumes. Complete. BOOK INFO Published in 1848 by John Murray in London. First edition, first printing. Complete in two volumes. Bound in near contemporary to later half fine morocco. Lustrous board paper ruled in gilt. Spine with five raised, gilt decorated bands separating compartments ruled and tooled in gilt; gilt lettering in compartments two and three. Top edge gilt. Strikingly beautiful blue floral-patterned endpapers with branching streaks of gilt match the board paper. Octavo, 9" x 6". Collated and complete: lxvi, 520 pp.; viii, 593, [1] pp; frontispiece in each volume, two plates of facsimile writings of the author, Lord John Hervey. ABOUT THE AUTHOR & WORK Hervey wrote detailed and brutally frank memoirs of the court of George II of Great Britain from 1727 to 1737. He gave a most unflattering account of the King, and of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and their family squabbles. For the Queen Caroline of Ansbach and her daughter, Princess Caroline of Great Britain, he had genuine respect and attachment. The Princess's affection for him was commonly said to be the reason for the close retirement in which she lived after his death. The manuscript of Hervey's memoirs was preserved by the family, but his son, Augustus John, 3rd Earl of Bristol, left strict injunctions that they should not be published until after the death of George III. In 1848 they were published under the editorship of J. W. Croker (over 100 years after first composed), but the manuscript had been subjected to a certain amount of mutilation before it came into his hands. Croker also softened in some cases the plainspokenness of the original. CONDITION REPORT The volumes are in VG+ antiquarian condition for 175-year-old+ books. Exterior and binding: Firm hinges and joints tight text block. Colorful, supple morocco. Spines sunned from dark brown to a lovely chocolate brown. Light rubbing to boards and edges. A few small spots of soiling to boards and edges. Some scuffing to paper. Present beautifully on the shelf. Interior: The pages are generally bright and white. Light, sporadic foxing, moderate to heavier foxing at text block extremities and frontispieces. Signs of handling - marginal finger soiling and some smudges. No writing other than the final page in volume I with a marginal pencil number from the binder along the gutter. No ex libris marks or bookplates. A few bent corners, creases and other signs of light handling. George II (1683 - 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from June 1727 until his death in 1760. All in all, a handsome two-volume set biography on King George II in collectible condition. Near contemporary 1/2 morocco fine binding.

Octavo (23 cm); 5 volumes. Extra-illustrated with 197 (give or take) black-and-white engravings (some folding) and 16 color stipple engravings including portraits, facsimiles, scenes, and a map. Handsomely re-cased in 20th-century tan buckram with leather labels on spines titled in gilt. Some offsetting onto text pages from opposing plates, but otherwise the text is in excellent condition. Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is a book that names names. Johnson, during his long life, came into contact with virtually everyone in British society who left a footprint, and Boswell names them all. John Wilson Croker's edition of Boswell's great biography-offered here in its initial printing-inspired something of a fashion for collectors to gather up printed portraits of the figures named in the biography, and have them bound into their copies of Croker's Boswell opposite the pages where the figure is named or discussed. The majority of the portraits, scenes, facsimiles, and maps in this copy date from the first quarter of the 19th century, while a few were printed in the late 1700s and the most recent ones date from the 1840s. Celebrity portraits include those of Johnson, Boswell, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richardson, Rousseau, Sterne, Catherine the Great, Leibnitz, Byron, Swift, Joseph Banks, Voltaire, Madame de Sévigné, Captain Cook, Thomas Gray, John Donne, Adam Smith, Walter Scott, Joseph Addison, Thomas Brown, Montaigne, Drake, Milton, and many, many, many others.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 10 volume set. Bound with maroon leather spines and corners. Red cloth over boards. Raised cords on the spines. Lettering in gold, with volume numbers, date, and 'extra illustrated.' Top edges gilt. Varying page counts - between 320 and 425. A pencil notation inside the front cover of volume 1 says there are 140 additional plates. These plates are usually portraits of people mentioned in the biography, taken from earlier sources and carefully sized and inserted here to supplement the original material. Each of these additional plates has the binder's code on the back, identifying which volume and which page it should be inserted at. Some folding facsimiles pages as well. Bindings good and right and quite attractive. Some slight wear to the hinges, but this hardly detracts. Also, a small chip at the extended top of the crown of the spines on 3 volumes prevent it from being flawless, but these chips are so small as only to be visible when you look down on the books from above. Each volume measures 4.5 x 6.75 inches. The whole set sits on 12 inches of shelf space. Please email to request photos or with questions. Extra shipping will be required to ship the 10 vol set safely.