TWO VOLUMES IN RED CLOTH GILT TITLE ON SPINE GILT COAT OF ARMS FRONT BOARDS. SLIGHT FOXING. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR WILLIAM WELLER PEPYS BART. MASTER IN CHANCERY 1758-1825 WITH MRS CHAPONE MRS HARTLEY MRS MONTAGU HANNAH MORE WILLIAM FRANKS SIR JAMES MACDONALDMAJOR RENNELL SIR NATHANIEL WRAXALL AND OTHERS
Author:
GAUSSEN C.C.
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JOHN LANE. THE BODLEY HEAD. LONDON. MDCCCCIV. 1904
IN AN ATTRACTIVE MODERN BINDING OF HALF BLUE LEATHER OVER BLUE MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS GILT TITLE TO FRONT BOARD. 60 PAGES WITH SOME ROUGH PAGE EDGES AND LAST PAGE GRUBBY OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. NO DATE BUT MID EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1741). PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. A LETTER OF COMPLAINT FROM HERVEY TO SIR THOMAS HANMER (1677-1746) WHO WAS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
FINE COPY IN FINE DUSTWRAP BUT WITH VERY SMALL TEAR TO DUST WRAP. BOOK IS THE FIRST FULL GUIDE TO ALL THE LAKE DISTRICT LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
A SCARCE ITEM BEING THE FIRST TIME THAT SAMUEL JOHNSON APPEARED IN PRINT. OCTAVO. REBOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER BROWN CLOTH SPINE AND CORNERS RUBBED VERY TIGHT BINDING MARBLED ENDPAPERS. CONTENTS VERY CLEAN AND BRIGHT APART FROM THE TITLE PAGE WHICH IS BROWNED. MINOR REPAIR TO THE FOOT OF THE TITLE PAGE OF THE PREFACE. THE BOOK COMPRISES: A VERY LONG PREFACE BY HUSBANDS ‘ CONTAINING SOME REMARKS ON THE BEAUTIES OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES MORE ESPECIALLY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT WHERE THEY ARE CONSIDERED IN A CLASSICAL VIEW’; A LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS (19 PAGES); THE POEMS (270 PAGES). IN THE PREFACE HUSBANDS SAYS OF JOHNSON ‘ THE TRANSLATION OF MR POPE’S MESSIAH WAS DELIVERED TO HIS TUTOR AS A COLLEGE EXERCISE BY MR JOHNSON A COMMONER OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE IN OXFORD AND ‘ TIS HOPED WILL BE NO DISCREDIT TO THE EXCELLENT ORIGINAL’. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY OF A SCARCE BOOK.
VERY GOOD COPY BOUND IN RED BUCKRAM SET IN 12 POINT MONOTYPE BEMBO AND PRINTED ON CREAM WOVE PAPER HAND MADE BY HODGKINSON OF WELLS IN SOMERSET. OF THIS BOOK 450 COPIES PRINTED THIS COPY NUMBER 52. SIGNED BY JOHN RUSSELL. INK INSCRIPTION ON FEP.
SPECIAL LIMITED EDITON OF 400 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 53. SIGNED BY ISHERWOOD. PRINTED BY SEBASTIAN CARTER AT THE RAMPANT LION PRESS. THE TYPE IS ‘MONOTYPE’ IMPRINT AND THE PAPER SPECIALLY MADE HAYLE FROM BARCHAM GREEN. BINDING DESIGNED BY JAMES BROCKMAN.SMALL QUARTO IN DECORATIVE BLUE CLOTH. VERY GOOD.
1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD HARDBACK WITH SLIGHTLY TORN DUST WRAP. WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY REYNOLDS STONE. CONTAINS 3 STORIES AND 2 ‘CONCEITS’ ONE OF WHICH IS A SYMPHONIC TRIBUTE TO THE PEOPLE OF NORWAY AND THE OTHER IS A CONVERSATION PIECE.
