rev samuel alexander (14 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. 64 total pages; Disbound. Listed title is 40 pages. Also includes Charge by Rev. Ezra S. Gannett, Right Hand of Fellowship by Rev. Samuel Osgood, and Address to the People by Rev. Dr. Walker.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover. SCARCE ORIGINAL 1860 PRINTING. Ex-Library with usual markings. Pages are unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Corners bumped. Spine has been covered with library support tape. Binding is tight, hinges reinforced with library support tape.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Near Fine Hardcover Copy Of The Johnson's Dictionary Of The 18Th Century. Half Faux Leather With Cloth Boards. Extra Gilt On Spine. Very Solid, Heavy Copy There Is A Previous Owner's Name Neatly On Top Half Title Page. Century Binding With A Red Ribbon Page Marker Sewn In. 832 Pages. Abridged From The Rev, H. J. Todd's Corrected And Enlarged Quarto Edition, By Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback copy in dark green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 832pp. Untrimmed page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, small tear to tail of spine, hinges slightly visible to front/rear endpapers. (58/4).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Octavo. 832 pages. Abridged from the Rev. Todd's corrected and enlarged quarto edition by Alexander Chalmers F.S.A. Original full-calf binding. Skillfully re-backed saving the original spine and endpapers. Internally in excellent condition. Previous owner's name in neat, tiny manuscript to the head of the title page.

Small 8vo. x, 277, (1) pp. Publisher's russet cloth backed printed boards, gilt lettered to the spine. Some wear to the boards, light spotting to the front and rear leaves, else very good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. A fairly scarce edition of Chalmer's extensively revised text of Johnson's famous dictionary. Bound in full leather boards - front cover completely detached, splits to the spine, but stitching still holding, and some wear to the boards/board extremities - the covers need some TLC. Internally there is a lot of browning/foxing to the endpapers front and back, o/w the text block is very good and clean, with just the odd spot here and there. A former owner's name and date in pencil on the second free endpaper, can be erased If desired? Abridged from the Rev. H. J. Todd's Corrected and Enlarged Quarto Edition, by Alexander Chalmers, F. S. A. Opposite the Title page is an advertisement stating that "This volume contains every word in Mr. Todd's edition of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary; and above Fourteen Thousand more than were given in Dr. Johnson's Abridgement. The whole forms the most extensive vocabulary ever published, and, in consequence of the additions introduced by Mr. Todd, it becomes a complete glossary of the early English writers." . The book really needs rebacking due to the covers/spine - but is overall good, and internally most is very good - This edition is scarce. See Images. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall Unknown but probably the Ist Edition in this form?.

Full Leather. Condizione: Very Good+ (Book Condition). A gorgeous 9-volume set with full tan-coloured leather covers; hand-marbled endpapers; gilt dentelles and decorations to covers and spines; and five raised bands to spines. The first 8 volumes consists of the plays themselves, "Accurately printed from the text of the corrected copies left by the late George Steevens and Edmond Malone with Mr. Malone's various readings; a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators; A History of the Stage, and a Life of Shakspeare by Alexander Chalmers." The final volume, 9, is an Index, edited by Reverand Samuel Ayscough ("An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of By Shakspeare; Calculated to Point Out the Different Meanings to Which the Words are Applied.") All volumes are in very good condition. Minor scuffing to leather covers. Bindings strong. The front cover of Vol. 9 is detached but present. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.] Size: 8vo. Book.

Full Leather. Condizione: Very Good+ (Book Condition). A gorgeous 9-volume set with full tan-coloured leather covers; hand-marbled endpapers; gilt dentelles and decorations to covers and spines; and five raised bands to spines. The first 8 volumes consists of the plays themselves, "Accurately printed from the text of the corrected copies left by the late George Steevens and Edmond Malone with Mr. Malone's various readings; a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators; A History of the Stage, and a Life of Shakspeare by Alexander Chalmers." The final volume, 9, is an Index, edited by Reverand Samuel Ayscough ("An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of By Shakspeare; Calculated to Point Out the Different Meanings to Which the Words are Applied.") All volumes are in very good condition. Minor scuffing to leather covers. Bindings strong. The front cover of Vol. 9 is detached but present. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.] Size: 8vo. Book.

Condizione: Near fine. Extra Illustrated Limited Edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, 9 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (225 x 140mm) Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the limitation page "Five copies were (only) printed | on this hand-made paper for | sale. S. A. Rogers, 1887." EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 150 engraved, etched and lithographic 18th- and 19th-century portraits and views by various artists after Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and others, 10-page MANUSCRIPT INDEX of illustrations bound in at the end of volume II. Where captions are not included in the plate, they are neatly hand-written on the page margin in ink. Contemporary straight-grained tan morocco gilt by Fazakerley of Liverpool, the covers with gilt floral designs, the stems and leaves outlined in gilt, the flowers depicted with dark brown morocco inlays, the border of 4 gilt fillets with stepped corners enclosed within an outer single gilt fillet, the spines gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, titled in gilt in 2 and dated at the foot, the other compartments decorated with fleurons surrounded by foliate cornerpieces, turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, others trimmed; extremities lightly rubbed, unobtrusive small marks on spines; occasional light foxing and offsetting. Provenance: F.E. Dinshaw (armorial bookplates and pressmark labels); William Robinson (bookplates bound in after front free endpapers), and W.A. Foyle | Beeleigh Abbey library bookplate in red morocco pasted into front cover, in both volumes. AN EXTRAVAGANTLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF TABLE-TALK, FINELY-BOUND BY FAZAKERLEY AND LIMITED TO FIVE COPIES, inscribed on the verso of volume I half-title: 'five copies were (only) printed on this hand-made paper for sale H.A. Rogers. 1887'. The 145 portraits depict a broad range of the poet Samuel Rogers' contemporaries, friends and literary influences, and include Lord Byron, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sydney Smith, Jonathan Swift, Horace Walpole, and William Wordsworth. 'Porsonia' is composed of recollections of the classical scholar Richard Porson, remembered for his learning, his ability 'to sit up drinking all night without seeming to feel any bad effects from it' and possessing 'more bad copies of good books than any private gentleman in England' (pp.319 and 329). Signed.