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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Octavo volume. Contemporary calf binding with raised bands and gilt decorative tooling to spine; later purple cloth repair present to spine section, as shown. Boards with marbled paper, heavily worn with rubbing, scuffing, edge wear, and loss to corners. Spine rubbed and worn but remains intact and solid. Text block complete. Pages age-toned throughout with expected foxing and light staining consistent with age. Title page present and clear. Binding sound despite cosmetic wear; hinges holding. No loose pages noted. A well-used but honest early 19th-century volume. Condition: Fair to Good (for age) — structurally sound, cosmetically worn.…

Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. Volume V only of the nine volume set, but complete in itself and containing the complete text of The Dunciad, all four books plus the appendices. Contemporary full calf leather binding. Spine with five raised bands, morocco title and volume labels, gilt decoration to compartments. Rubbing to spine and board edges. A few tears to leather on rear board. Slight wear to head of spine. Good solid binding with no cracking to joiunts. Offsetting to margins of endpapers and first and last few pages. Light water stain to upper margins. Very clean text throughout. Title page printed in red and black. An early edition of Pope's classic satirical poem, a nice solid example. ESTC: T5446. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 4.75 x 7.25 inches (12 x 18 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: Small 8vo. lvi, 271, [16] (Index).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1823. TWO VOLUMES (VOLUME XXV, & XXVI). 765pp. GOLDEN BROWN TOOLED LEATHER HARDBOUND WITH GILT GOLD STAMPED/EMBOSSED TITLE/FLORAL DESIGN ON SPINE COVER WITH A DIAMOND PATTERN STAMPED ON LEATHER BOARDS FRAMED BY A FINE GILT GOLD BORDER AND AND FLORAL DETAIL ON BOARD EDGES, FRONTIS PAGE WITH ENGRAVED IMAGE OF GEORGE COLEMAN ESQ. OF VOLUME XXV. DIMENSIONS: 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" x 1". CONDITION: VERY GOOD; 1/4" x 1/4" CHIP AT UPPER RIGHT SIDE OF SPINE CROWN AND LIGHTER CHIPPING AT SPINE HEEL OF VOLUME XXV, SOME RUBBED AREAS OF BOARD EDGES, CORNERS GENTLY BUMPED/RUBBED, PERSONAL EX-LIBRIS LABEL PASTED INSIDE FRONT BOARD, LIGHT PENCIL PRICING NOTE AND SMALL BOOKSELLER LABEL PASTED INSIDE REAR BOARD PAGE, 1ST COUPLE OF PAGES LIGHTLY BROWN SPOTTED, REMAINING TEXT WHITE AND BRIGHT, STRONG HINGES AND VERY GOOD CONDIITON OVERALL.…

Klein-8°. 17 x 10,5 cm. xxvi (ii), (2) viii, (10) 312 Seiten. [12] Blatt, 276 Seiten. [12] Blatt, 287 Seiten. [11] Blatt, 288 Seiten. [11] Blatt, 276 Seiten. [11] Blatt, 264 Seiten. [7] Blatt, 248 Seiten. [9] Blatt, 280 Seiten. Ganzlederbände der Zeit mit goldgeprägter Rückennummerierung und Fileten. Bände 2-8 in 13. Auflage, Band 1 ohne Angabe. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Band 1 mit Frontispiz. Einbände deutlich berieben und an den oberen Kapitalen mit Fehlstellen, ein Kapitalband fehlt komplett. 3 Vorderdeckel fast komplett vom Buchblock abgelöst. Vorsätze an den Rändern gebräunt. Band 3 mit eingeprägter Wappeninsignie "Les ses dire" und großflächigen Eintragungen von alter Hand in Tinte auf vorderem Vorsatz, Namenseintrag auf hinterem Vorsatzblatt, beides von Joseph Carvill, Loughinisland, Irland. Blätter wenig fleckig, vereinzelt schwach braunfleckig, an den Kanten teils etwas gebräunt. Gute Exemplare. Volumes 2-8 in 13th edition, volume 1 without declaration. English language edition. Volume 1 with frontispiece. Full leather bindings of the times with gilt embossed number on spine and gilt decor. Covers significantly rubbed and with small missing parts at the upper spines, one head band is missing. 3 front covers almost completely loosened from the book block. Endpapers darkened at the margins. Volume 3 with embossed armorial bearing "Les ses dire" and long private notes by old hand in ink on endpaper and inner cover, in the back with name inscription, both by Joseph Carvill, Loughinisland, Ireland. Sheets only partly spotted, some margins darkened. Good copies.…

Half-Leather. Condizione: Good. Fifth. Brown 'suede' type brown boards, their surface chipped and rubbed with edgewear, particularly on four front corners. The solid spine with five raised bands and leather label lettered in gilt is a lighter colour and soft suede in texture. Internally evidence of professional restoration of front and rear gutters; the front free endpaper with three paragraphs of writing, two in pen, one in pencil, dated 1933 . The lightly soiled engraved frontis has six bookworm holes partly affecting pages as far as the letter G (alphabetical); spotty title page chipped on edges and a 1 cm x 5 mm scribble near rmiddle; preliminary pages soiled as far as 'Ale' and generally clean and unmarked thereafter. Unpaginated. Frontis + 12 folding plates. Last entry: 'Zylosteum' followed by grubby six page Latin Index, then nine page index of plants mentioned, one page ad (with short edge tear) + two page list of plants engraved and described. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. The Third Edition; In Two Volumes; .To which are prefixed, A History of the Language, and An English Grammar.; Remnants of original cover leather laid over new leathers, gilt spine title on red & black Morocco labels, 6 heavy raised bands, & title page in rubric; A good or good+ tight set with even wear but no glaring defects, note: armorial bookplate inside each front board of Geo. Burrish, also, large ink signature on fep each volume of William H. E. Worship; This set has its own walnut furniture for storage & use (20.5"x17"x21.5") consisting of a lecturn with two drawers, one for each volume; Unpaginated. Size: 10.25"x16".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Nine Volumes Complete — 1766 — Complete 9-Volume Large Octavo Set — 24 Engravings Very Good antiquarian condition. Complete nine-volume set in handsome contemporary full calf bindings with gilt-ruled boards, raised bands, red leather spine labels, gilt titles and decorative gilt devices. All 24 engraved plates are present. Bindings remain remarkably attractive and sound for a set published in 1766, showing expected age-related rubbing, scuffing, edge/corner wear and some variation in color. Gilt remains quite attractive. Interiors are generally clean and well preserved, with occasional age toning, spotting/foxing and other minor signs of age. Pages have the characteristic texture and appearance of 18th-century laid paper. (See photos) Each volume contains an older "PRIVATE LIBRARY" bookplate/label on the front pastedown; a previous owner's name on these labels has been obscured in black marker. Earlier ownership inscription dated September 18, 1873 appears in at least one volume. These ownership marks are unattractive but confined to the preliminary/pastedown areas and do not detract significantly from the text or the handsome appearance of the set on the shelf. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., In Nine Volumes, Complete, London, 1766. Printed for A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, B. Law, T. Longman, T. Caslon, Johnson and Davenport, and M. Richardson. Complete in all nine volumes with all 24 engraved plates. A very attractive surviving 18th-century set in full calf. (BR) Shelf 360.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Fine binding. Bound in 3/4 calf over marbled boards. Marbled edges and end pages. Scattered foxing, spotting. 562 pages. Includes: [1] The Natural History of Selborne, [2] The Naturalist's Calendar, [3] Observations on various Parts of Nature, [4] Summary of the Weather, [5] Poems and [6] The Antiquities of Selborne. …

ESTC T117802. Size: Four volumes. Small 8vo. Polished calf (edges a little rubbed), red leather labels. Ownership signature of Thos Robson, Down, Coll. Camb.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 352 pages(complete). An estimable copy. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spine wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spine are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very, very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming and dignified. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). Both copies are smart. Full calf leather. Stamped gilt cypher on the front boards. The spines have five ridges with different coloured leather patches for titling. The boards have blind stamped decoration, gilt borders. The inside rims of the boards have gilt decoration. The boards have shelving wear to the edges and corners. The spines have much wear all along the bodies, to the heads and feet. Nonetheless, the boards are handsome, steady and sure. The contents are most pleasing. They are fresh-faced, certain, agreeably healthy, clean and clear, convivial, neat, tidy, classy, with a pleasing jeunesse. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

14th Ed., with a list of the medicinal plants, . To which is prefixed, A short introduction to the science of botany . xv,[1],50,376,[22]pp. Frontis., dec. headpieces and initial letters, 5 folding plates. Age toning, contemporary calf boards, minor marking and wear, gilt ruling with modern gilt lettered label to spine. ESTC No.T59735; Henrey, 1141. US$223.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Nine Volumes. Full leather, five raised bands. Spined are all fairly toned and darkened, half of boards are cracked but attached, corners scuffed, some scuffs to boards but mostly clean. bindings are all quite tight and pages are very clean. Photos on request.

First Edition. 8 Volumes. Good copies only in full contemporary tree calf. Some hinges cracked with some spine bands worn. Some minor scattered foxing, text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 8 volumes , plates. Contents:I. A view of the commencement and progress of romance. The life of T. Smollet . Plays and poems. II. The adventures of Roderick Random. III-IV. The adventures of Peregrine Pickle . V. The adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. VI. Sir Launcelot Greaves. Adventures of an atom. VII. The expedition of Humphrey Clinker. VIII. Travels through France and Italy . Subjects: Smollett, T. (Tobias) 1721-1771.Smollett, T. (Tobias) 1721-1771; Portraits. Scottish poetry. Scottish writers. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. 8 Volumes. Good copies only in full contemporary tree calf. Some hinges cracked with some spine bands worn. Some minor scattered foxing, text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 8 volumes , plates. Contents:I. A view of the commencement and progress of romance. The life of T. Smollet . Plays and poems. II. The adventures of Roderick Random. III-IV. The adventures of Peregrine Pickle . V. The adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. VI. Sir Launcelot Greaves. Adventures of an atom. VII. The expedition of Humphrey Clinker. VIII. Travels through France and Italy . Subjects: Smollett, T. (Tobias) 1721-1771.Smollett, T. (Tobias) 1721-1771; Portraits. Scottish poetry. Scottish writers. 1 Kg.…

21cm. [xxiv]. 536pp, 4 folding maps as called for. Original full calf gilt, re-backed with calf, raised bands, original red calf gilt spine label laid down. Light wear and staining to original boards; frontis map lightly spotted and browned. Sabin 1625/6; Cox 1, 49.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 536 pages. 10th edition. Complete with 3 folded maps. The maps are complete with a few tears that have been carefully repaired and some evidence of mis-folding. With a new spine and end papers. The boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn but remain strong and sturdy. Internally, there is an ex-libris plate under the front board and age-related tanning and foxing throughout but the text remains otherwise neat. Securely bound and overall, in good condition indeed for its age! JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

First Edition. Good to very good copies all in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, now with minor surface-wear and some minor abrasions. Panel edges and corners show some wear. Spines gilt-tooled with raised bands and leather labels, the former slightly rubbed along with joints and endbands, and the latter partly or entirely lacking on a few volumes. Some joints cracked, with hinges weak and board becoming loose. Vol. 19 bottom edge shows a stain, with text unaffected. Marble endpapers; preliminary and final leaves foxed. Core text blocks remain uniformly strong, showing only the expected faint foxing and offsetting of age. A well-preserved set overall. Further scans, images and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description; complete in 21 volumes ; 25 cm. Notes; Each volume has a half-title. Text printed in double columns. Includes index. Contents; Vol. 1, Chaucer -- Vol. 2, Gower, Skelton, Howard, Wyat, Gascoigne, Turbervile -- Vol. 3, Spenser, Daniel -- Vol. 4, Drayton, Warner -- Vol. 5, Shakspeare, Davies, Donne, Hall, Stirling, Jonson, Corbet, Carew, Drummond -- Vol. 6, J. Beaumont, G. and P. Fletcher, F. Beaumont, Browne, Davenant, Habington, Suckling, Cartwright, Crashaw, Sherburne, Brome, C. Cotton -- Vol. 7, Cowley, Denham, Milton -- Vol. 8, Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden -- Vol. 9, Dryden, Smith, Duke, King, Sprat, Halifax, Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Addison -- Vol. 10, Hughes, Sheffield, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Gay -- Vol. 11, Lansdowne, Yalden, Tickell, Hammond, Somerville, Savage, Swift -- Vol. 12, Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson -- Vol. 13, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young -- Vol. 14, Mallet, Akenside, Gray, Lyttelton, Moore, Cawthorne, Churchill, Falconer, Cunningham, Grainger, Boyse -- Vol. 15, W. Thompson, Blair, Lloyd, Green, Byrom, Dodsley, Chatterton, Cooper, Smollett, Hamilton -- Vol. 16, Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Johnson -- Vol. 17, Glover, Whitehead, Jago, Brooke, Scott, Mickle, Jenyns -- Vol. 18, Cotton, Logan, T. Warton, J. Warton, Blacklock, Cambridge, Mason, Jones, Beattie, Cowper -- Vol. 19, Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal, Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's Art of Poetry, Francis's Horace -- Vol. 20, Rowe's Lucan, Grainger's Tibullus, Fawkes's Theocritus, Apollonius, Rhodius, Coluthus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus, Garth's Ovid, Lewis's Statius, Cooke's Hesiod -- Vol. 21, Hoole's Ariosto and Tasso, Mickle's Lusiad. Subjects; English poetry. Collections. Poets, English. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Good to very good copies all in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, now with minor surface-wear and some minor abrasions. Panel edges and corners show some wear. Spines gilt-tooled with raised bands and leather labels, the former slightly rubbed along with joints and endbands, and the latter partly or entirely lacking on a few volumes. Some joints cracked, with hinges weak and board becoming loose. Vol. 19 bottom edge shows a stain, with text unaffected. Marble endpapers; preliminary and final leaves foxed. Core text blocks remain uniformly strong, showing only the expected faint foxing and offsetting of age. A well-preserved set overall. Further scans, images and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description; complete in 21 volumes ; 25 cm. Notes; Each volume has a half-title. Text printed in double columns. Includes index. Contents; Vol. 1, Chaucer -- Vol. 2, Gower, Skelton, Howard, Wyat, Gascoigne, Turbervile -- Vol. 3, Spenser, Daniel -- Vol. 4, Drayton, Warner -- Vol. 5, Shakspeare, Davies, Donne, Hall, Stirling, Jonson, Corbet, Carew, Drummond -- Vol. 6, J. Beaumont, G. and P. Fletcher, F. Beaumont, Browne, Davenant, Habington, Suckling, Cartwright, Crashaw, Sherburne, Brome, C. Cotton -- Vol. 7, Cowley, Denham, Milton -- Vol. 8, Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden -- Vol. 9, Dryden, Smith, Duke, King, Sprat, Halifax, Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Addison -- Vol. 10, Hughes, Sheffield, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Gay -- Vol. 11, Lansdowne, Yalden, Tickell, Hammond, Somerville, Savage, Swift -- Vol. 12, Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson -- Vol. 13, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young -- Vol. 14, Mallet, Akenside, Gray, Lyttelton, Moore, Cawthorne, Churchill, Falconer, Cunningham, Grainger, Boyse -- Vol. 15, W. Thompson, Blair, Lloyd, Green, Byrom, Dodsley, Chatterton, Cooper, Smollett, Hamilton -- Vol. 16, Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Johnson -- Vol. 17, Glover, Whitehead, Jago, Brooke, Scott, Mickle, Jenyns -- Vol. 18, Cotton, Logan, T. Warton, J. Warton, Blacklock, Cambridge, Mason, Jones, Beattie, Cowper -- Vol. 19, Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal, Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's Art of Poetry, Francis's Horace -- Vol. 20, Rowe's Lucan, Grainger's Tibullus, Fawkes's Theocritus, Apollonius, Rhodius, Coluthus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus, Garth's Ovid, Lewis's Statius, Cooke's Hesiod -- Vol. 21, Hoole's Ariosto and Tasso, Mickle's Lusiad. Subjects; English poetry. Collections. Poets, English. 1 Kg. …

Leather over boards. Condizione: Very good. Third edition. Two volume set. Full leather (brown calfskin) over boards. Folio. Pagination: volume I -- [6], xvi, [4], 984 pp; volume II -- [frontispiece], [14], 1056, [21 index], [1 plate list] pp. Illustrated with 61 b/w engraved plates including 15 folding maps; vol. I plates 1-27 (5 fold-outs), vol. II plates 28-61 (10 fold-outs). The majority of the maps were created by Emanuel Bowen, reprinted from earlier editions, with new some new additions by Herman Moll, including a good map of America, and one showing the west and south coast of Australia with parts of Tasmania and New Zealand. Uniform binding. Seven compartment spine with 6 raised ribs. Compartment 2 contains a red leather label with gilt short title and decorations, compartment 3 a black leather label with gilt volume number and decorations. Double line gilt border on the front and back boards. Black dentelle pattern along the edges. Head, foot, and fore edge stained red. Title page printed in black and red. Text printed in two columns. Text block condition: volume I -- mild brown toning appropriate for its age, minor foxing throughout, maps/plates are bright and undamaged, water stain in the bottom corner of the fore edge of the last leaf and back flyleaf; volume II --ÂÂmild brown toning appropriate for its age, minor foxing throughout, maps/plates are bright and undamaged, small hole in the S section of the index, and the plate list is creased with a 3 cm enclosed tear near the gutter. Binding condition: both volumes are rubbed and worn on the spine and boards. Bumped/frayed corners. Exposed board edges in places. Spines flaking slightly. The leather of the hinges is cracked, but the bands are still pliable. Binding is strong and square.   Provenance: this copy appears to have been in the possession of Sampson Eardley (Gideon), 1st Baron Eardley, FRS (1744-1824), banker and politician, based on the bookplates. Interestingly, this copy has two armorial bookplates, one pasted on top of the other: one from before Sampson changed his surname to Eardley and was made a baron in 1789, and one after with a baron coronet added to the crest. Sampson was made a baronet in 1759 at age 14 due to his father's lobbying. He served as a Tory MP in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1770 - 1802. Sampson's father, Sampson Gideon Sr., was a Jewish banker based in the City of London, though Sampson Jr. and his sisters were raised Christian like their mother. Overall condition: Very good. This copy is bright, and complete. Care should be taken when handling due to the weight of the volume. Ref: Sabin 30483; Brunet III, 49: "Collection Estimà e.".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; quarto (27.5cm x 22cm x 5.5cm); pp. [8], 615, [8] index; English text; bound in contemporary full calf; initial and terminal blanks present; printed footnotes; rear index in double columns. Condition: GOOD. Joints cracked but holding. Covers somewhat rubbed with abrasions. Interior lightly toned with some spotting mostly to prelims. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Scarce.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. n.d. [1758]. First edition. 8vo. [2], xx, [4], iii-xxix, [1] pp., XXI, [1]pp of plates. Signed and numbered (No 97) by the author on p.xx ("Lastly, in order to secure my Property, and prevent the Public from being imposed upon by spurious Editions, I shall number each Book, and sign my Name thereto."). Proposals to print "A new treatise of stenography; . By John Angell, . price 5 s." appeared in the Public Advertiser Sat. March 12, 1757; Issue 6982. Inflation obviously bedevilled the trade even then and, on publication a year later, we have at the foot of the engraved title:"Thos. Kitchin sculp. star Holborn Hill", and with "Price bound 7 shillings" below imprint.With 2 lines of errata on leaf c4 verso. With the list of subscribers (famously including 'Mr. Samuel Johnson, A.M., London') following the preface; the first page mis-numbered xxxii. The first 2 pages of the "Introduction" are supplied in an old, good-quality manuscript, bound in. In contemporary boarded, full slotted vellum. William Loombe's book-plate to front pastedown and Ch. Rousseau's impressed Ex-Libris to ffep. ESTC T88352. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Nine volumes (complete). A lovely VERY RARE complete set of Pope's works published just a few years after his death. The books include the final edits and comments made by Pope on his deathbed. The books are fully bound in leather. The morroco spine has gilt decoration and titling. The books are serene and dignified. The covers of all the volumes have have wear from shelving and storage but this adds to their character rather than affecting the security or aspect. The spines are strong, genial, august. They have five ridges, six panels. The pages for all volumes have printer markings at the feet of the pages. Printing impressions are fresh. The contents throughout all of the books are in very, very good condition. They are bright and jejeune - startlingly, excitingly so considering their age. Volume 1: Juvenile Poems. The boards have wear to the faces and shelving nudging to the corners. They are firm and tight. Inside, the handpressed paper is firm and looks fresh. The font is clear. Volume 2: Translations and Imitations. Once again the boards are sturdy and sound. The edges and faces have some wear and scuffing. They are assured. Inside, the pages are thrillingly clean and pleasant. Volume 3: Moral Essays. The boards have some mild wear to the edges and corners. The faces have scuffing. They are healthy and hale. Inside, the frontis pages have some light storage marks. Once again, the pages are happily clear and comfortable. They are thick and tight. Volume 4: Satires, &c. The boards tidier than those preceding and succeeding. They are genial and benign with some surface shelving scuffing and wear. They are also healthy and wise. The pages are deliciously clean. Volume 5: The Dunciad in four books. The boards of this volume are much worn from storage. They are however, secure and experienced. The frontis and end papers have some light storage marks and wear. Inside, the engravings are lively, elegant, as if new. The pages are tight, clean, smart and full of energy. Volume 6: Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose. The boards are full of character and bear their wear with solemnity and dignity. Once again, inside, the pages are as if they are fresh from the printer. The pages are tight, clear, very certain. Volume 7: Being the First of his Letters. The boards mildly worn and scuffed from storage and shelving. They are solid and sure. Inside, the frontispages have very light storage marks. The paper has barely aged and is pleasingly firm. Volume 8: Being the Second of his Letters. The boards of this volume are noble and handsome. There is little wear and such as there be is surface. Inside, the pages are obliging in their generosity. Clean and clear and neat. Volume 9: Being the Third of his Letters. Also included is Pope's Last Will and Testament. The boards have smears of wear and scuffing. They are yet benign and competent. The pages are clean, certain, congenial and calm. This is a remarkable set of books principally due to the excellence, freshness and tidiness of the pages and paper. The books exude dignity and ownership, they evoke care of production and contentment of ownership. A generous set. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Condizione: Fair.

17cm. 24pp. Contemporary marbled paper wraps. Wraps partly faded. There is a 4th edition of 34pp which mentions W. Brand in the imprint. Goldsmiths 5007; Kress 2825; Simon 1044. This issue not recorded in ESTC.

8vo, pp. [xv], [1], 50, 376, [22], with copper-engraved frontispiece and five folding plates; short closed marginal tear to G3, but a very good, crisp copy; bound in contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt-ruled in compartments with later gilt red morocco lettering-piece; small crack to headcap, a few light abrasions to boards, corners slightly bumped; contemporary ink ownership inscription to title-page 'Rob. Johnson.A very attractive copy of the most popular work of Philip Miller (1691-1771), the foremost British gardener of the eighteenth century, with five folding plates of botanical illustrations. 'Miller's Gardener's Kalendar, published in fifteen editions between 1732 and 1765, catered for the modest gardener who needed practical advice [Miller] produced a work not only portable, but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book. At four shillings a copy it came within the purse of most and indeed was judged to be "a manual to the whole kingdom". Its aim was to bring into "one easy and concise view" what might be of use to those "hindered by other avocations from bestowing much time in the study of this delightful and innocent work" Under each month could be found directions for work to be done in the kitchen garden with notes on its produce, the pleasure or flower garden with plants then in flower, and the greenhouse and stove with their plants in bloom' (Le Rougetel, pp. 1013). Henrey 1141. See Le Rougetel, The Chelsea Gardener: Philip Miller 1691-1771 (1990). Language: English.…

Condizione: Good. . Published in 1762. 4th edition. 4 Volume set. All volumes: Heavy edgewear. Pages age toned, with typical period foxing. Volume 1: Front board nearly detached. In polypropylene bag. (english essays, newspapers, britain).

Full Calf. Condizione: Very Good. 8th Edition. Two volumes. The eight edition, corrected and revised. Signatures: Volume 1. [A] aâ b-h i-kâ  g-hâ B-6Sâ -- Volume 2. [A] B-6Oâ . Full calf bindings rebacked with the original spine laid down. Raised gilt-ruled bands and gilt lettered red leather title labels to the spines. A few marks and surface chips to the original boards and ends of original spines. A little wear to the board corners. Ink inscription, dated 1828, to the free endpapers (from a Helen Whittle to a Charles Whittle) and only occasional foxing, overall being a nice clean copy. Frontispiece portrait to first volume from the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Alston volume V, 191; ESTC; T116650. 29cms tall. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 4to.…