johson samuel (7 risultati)

hardcover, Condizione: Good, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1883, smaller 8vo., cloth, 466pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, G $.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Ex Library Bookplate And Markings (Darlington College). Occasional Pencil Annotations And Underlines. Some Spine Wear (Leather). A Partially Torn Page, But Intact.

Hardcover. 124pp. Contemporary quarter leather. Boards are worn, light toning to text. A hand colored small engraving of a bird is sewn onto the last blank. A good+ copy.; 24mo 5" - 6" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing. Inscribed by editor. Very Good/Very Good. The book is unmarked throughout but for the inscription and small line on same page. Text block top has minor foxing. A tad bit of mustiness. Minuscule damage on spine top. Else spine is tight, boards rigid and tips are pointed. The jacket has slight damage at tips and spine top and is price clipped. Looks spiffy now in its shiny new plastic cover. Shipping box is suitable for wrapping with a non-price listed purchase order inside along with biodegradable packing. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover, polished brown calf, 253 pages. A clean copy of the First Edition of Samuel Johnson's tract on the Corn Laws written in 1766 for the use of his friend William Gerard Hamilton - an important politician of the period who achieved a brilliant reputation as an orator - despite his nickname of 'Single Speech Hamilton' The volume was edited by Malone, who found the tract among Hamilton's papers and contributed a long preface. 8vo., xlvi, 253, [1]p colophon.; Stipple engraved frontispiece portrait. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, edgewear/rubbing to calf along gilt ruled border on covers, spine with gilt decoration, red morroco label on spine. Front cover hinge tender, but holding. Record # 371292.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Large, heavy 8vo.pp.720. Collection of 5 romances, sketches, short stories, & biographies: Volume 11 of a handsome series titled 'British Novelist.' Authors include Samuel Johnson (with a Frontispiece portrait engraving of Johnson;) Madame Cottin; Mrs. Sherida; Col. David Crockett (Sketches and Eccentricities;) and Horace Walpole (A Gothic Story.) The individual pieces were first published by Limbird between 1824-1835 in a weekly gazette. "Embellished with numerous engravings on wood:" b/w engravings in the romantic style of the period illustrate the text, with seven being hand-coloured by an enthusiastic reader. Original publisher's binding in half dark brown polished calf with banded and gilt spine; contrasting red labels; marbled sides and endpapers. /John Limbird (b.1796) was an English stationer, bookseller and publisher. From 1822 to 1847 Limbird published a twopenny weekly, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Late in 1847 it became the Mirror Monthly Magazine; and from 1849 to 1850 appeared finally as the London Review. Sound. Clean, very good. Slight rubbing of covers. Front board slightly loose at inner hinge.

Condizione: Very good. 8vo: pp. xlvi, 253; Portrait frontispiece which is offset onto title. Otherwise a very good copy in contemporary quarter calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. First edition of Johnson's tract on the Corn Laws, composed in 1766 for the use of his young friend William Gerard Hamilton.