NEW EDITION COMPLETE IN 10 VOLUMES. FULL POLISHED CALF RED AND GREEN LABELS ELABORATE GILT TO THE SPINES MARBLED PAGES EDGES UPWARDS OF FIFTY FINE ENGRAVINGS. WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS AND NOTES BYJOHN WILSON CROKER TO WHICH ARE ADDED TWO SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUMES OF JOHNSONIANA. CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. A FINE AND HANDSOME SET.
FIRST EDITION FOUR VOLUMES COMPLETE. MANY FINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS. BOUND IN HALF LEATHER MARBLED EDGES AND ENDPAPERS RAISED BANDS. LOSS OF LABELS TO THE SPINES SCUFFING TO THE BOARDS SOME FOXING TO THE PRELIMS. BUT A VERY GOOD SOUND SET. UNCOMMON AS A FULL SET.
FIRST EDITION. ORIGINAL GREEN BLIND-STAMPED CLOTH. EX. LIBRARY (HOUSE OF RETREAT INCHICORE DUBLIN) WITH LABEL AND PREVIOUS OWNER’S BOOKPLATE. WEAKNESS TO FRONT HINGE SPLIT BETWEEN SPINE AND BACK BOARD OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. SCARCE.
FIRST EDITIONS. TWO BOOKS BOUND IN ONE. QUARTO FULL LEATHER REBOUND AT SOME STAGE USING PART OF THE ORIGINAL SPINE. THE LEATHER IS WORN IN PARTS BUT THE BINDING FIRM AND SOLID. JOHN HOUGH (1651-1743) WAS SUCCESSIVELY BISHOP OF OXFORD LICHFIELD AND COVENTRY AND WORCESTER. CONTAINS MANY OF HIS LETTERS AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF SEVERAL PERSONS WITH WHOM HE WAS CONNECTED. FRONTISPIECE OF HOUGH PREFACE (xvi) LIFE (387 pp). ALSO BOUND IN IS THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN EARDLEY WILMOT BY JOHN WILMOT 1802 PRINTED BU LUKE HANSARD AND SOLD BY T CADELL. SIR JOHN WAS LORD CHIEF JUSTICE 1766 – 1771. FRONTISPIECE OF SIR JOHN TITLE ADVERTISEMENT 77pp FULL ENGRAVED PLATE OF SIR JOHN 3pp BLANKS. THE BOOK CARRIES AN INSCRIPTION ‘MARIA MASON WILMOT FROM HER AFFECTIONATE FATHER 24TH DEC. 1811’ PRESUMABLY FROM JOHN WILMOT TO HIS DAUGHTER. ALSO THE TITLE PAGE OF THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN WILMOT IS SIGNED ‘JOHN WILMOT’. (THE AUTHOR OF THIS WORK NOT BEING PRINTED ON THE TITLE PAGE).
FIRST EDITION LIMITED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. THE EDITION WAS LIMITED TO 275 COPIES 240 BEING FOR SALE. NUMBERS 26 TO 240 WERE BOUND BY MANSELL IN QUARTER BLUE MOROCCO AND CANVAS WITH GOLD DEVICES OF THE AUTHOR’S DESIGN. THIS IS NUMBER 26. SMALL FOLIO MARBLED ENDPAPERS BY FLINT WITH MARBLED SLIPCASE. A FINE COPY.
FIRST EDITION ORIGINAL PURPLE CLOTH BEVELLED BOARDS. 313 PAGES PLUS ADVERTS. DARKENING OF THE SPINE PLUS LOSS AT THE FOOT OF THE SPINE OF HALF AN INCH OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. HARNESS WAS A FRIEND OF BYRON. VERY SCARCE.
VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN SLIGHTLY RUBBED BLUE CLOTH. WITH A CLASSIFICATION OF THE ORDER AND LISTS OF THE GENERA SPECIES ND SUBSPECIES. SECOND EDITION. SLIGHT FOXING.
