Bridgewater Benjamin (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Branstetter, Kayla; Cronin, Tara; Harris, CoCo (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reissue. No publication date, circa 1740 according to ESTC T110556. Rebound in green cloth with gilt titles and new end sheets and flyleaves by Mutual Library Bindery, Inc. in 1959 (their stamp on rear flyleaf). It appears the work, which was probably initially issued in wrappers, had already been rebound once with new marbled endpapers, which have been retained and appear inside the new flyleaves. Ink name on title page, minimal pencil marginalia. 2, [1]-84 pp., with numerous blank leaves bound in following text. Originally published under the name Benjamin Bridgewater in 1691, but attributed to John Dunton, who collaborated with Bridgewater on the work. Among the first of a number of works imitating Thomas Browne's popular Religio Medici. Dunton also wrote several other works, but is most notable for his reputation as a rather unscrupulous bookseller, and for publishing the first major popular periodical in England (The Athenian Mercury, 1690-1697), as well as the first periodical (The Ladies' Mercury, 1693) and the first dictionary (The Ladies' Dictionary, 1694) designed specifically for women. Religio Bibliopolae provides some important accounts of the book trade and publishing during Dunton's lifetime.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1709 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 180 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 180 Language: English.…

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 180 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1709. A satirical and polemical English work concerning the Calves-Head Club, anti-monarchical Republican sentiment, and the political-religious controversies of the Restoration and post-Restoration period. It brings together the principal text with appended pieces attributed to or by Edward Ward, Samuel Butler, and Sir John Denham, including a vindication of King Charles I and character sketches aimed at Presbyterians and Whigs. Of particular interest for readers of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century political satire, royalist writing, and the history of English pamphlet literature. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…