A NEW (AND SCARCE) EDITION IN FOUR VOLUMES. MODERN GREEN CLOTH BINDINGS VERY FRESH AND TIGHT. WITH 100 ENGRAVINGS. VOL 1 415 pp 4 PLATES. VOL2. 412 pp 53 PLATES (INCLUDING ONE THAT SHOULD BE IN VOL. 1). VOL 3 424 pp 29 PLATES. VOL. 4 327 pp +EXTENSIVE INDEX 13 PLATES. OCCASIONAL ANNOTATIONS BY A NEAT CONTEMPORARY HAND BUT INTERNALLY CLEAN.
Author:
GOLDSMITH OLIVER
Place, Publisher, Date:
LONDON FOR MILLAR, LAW AND CATER AND FOR WILSON, SPENCE AND MAWMAN, YORK, 1797
SIX VOLUMES. A NEW EDITION WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPERPLATES. TIGHTLY BOUND IN MAROON PATTERNED LEATHER WITH LEATHER SPINES. MARBLED END PAGES AND EDGES. SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY PAGES BUT A VERY CLEAN SET. WEAR TO THE LEATHER SPINES. FROM THE LIBRARY OF SNELSTON HALL.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEOFFREY KEYNES AND A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE BY DAVID McKITTERICK SIMON RENDALL AND JOHN DREYFUS. EDITION LIMITED TO 950 COPIES FOR SALE THIS BEING NUMBER 43. A FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER.
RARE FIRST EDITION REBOUND IN QUARTER LEATHER OVER RED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPGES. 379 PAGES AND 78 ILLUSTRATIONS. WEAKNESS TO FRONT HINGE BUT A VERY GOOD CLEAN COPY. SCARCE.
NEW REVISED EDITION WITH NOTES HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ON THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF ENGLISH TYPOGRAPHY REVISED AND ENLARGED BY A F JOHNSON. VERY GOOD IN BLACK CLOTH. NO DUSTWRAPPER.
FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP (CHIPPED AT THE TOP). ILLUSTRATED. A HISTORY OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. VOLUME 1 TO THE YEAR 1780 WITH AN APPENDIX LISTING THE TITLES 0F BOOKS PRINTED THERE 1690-1780.
