Johnson Rev Samuel (31 results)

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Everyman's Library 856. Edited by Philip Henderson. In original, unclipped, jacket in a protective sheet and with general rubbing, creasing, and toning to the spine. Bound in red cloth over boards with bronze lettering on the spine. Solid and square with min…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. unpaginated, tall quarto hardcover in blue cloth, gilt titles and embossed images to front and spine. moderate wear top front and bottom rear edges, pages open easily at a few points, point of binding starting toward middle of block yet binding remains solid, text clean. Cliff…

Quarter leather and marbled pa. Condition: As Described. No Jacket. British Poets. An unusual small volume being a compilation of works printed and published between 1806-8 by W. Suttaby and others, containing works written by various British poets, namely: - The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. with an Account of the Li…

, 354 pages, frontispiece portrait, contents at rear of each section, volume 21 of the works of the English poets by Samuel Johnson First in this edition , small loss at head of spine, some wear to joints, lacking small volume label, a little rubbed, pages clean, book in good condition ,full tree calf, red leather title and auth…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. illustrated frontispiece page of Dr Johnson & title page + ii + 284 pages ( most pages in two parts , then the book with most pages un-numberd. Condition Full leather Hardback binding, very good, some minor rubbing, gilt embossed title to black leather to Brown leather binding, 3 small bits leath…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. 832 pages. Abridged from the Rev. Todd's corrected and enlarged quarto edition by Alexander Chalmers F.S.A. Original full-calf binding. Skillfully re-backed saving the original spine and endpapers. Internally in excellent condition. Previous owner's name in neat, tiny manuscript to the he…

Leather. Condition: Good. A revised edition of a popular reference work for scientific terms, including thousands of newly inserted articles, bound in full calf. A new edition of the Scientific and Literary Treasury, a comprehensive glossary of scientific and literary terms, written by English writer Samuel Maunder, and revised…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Collated correct, this book resulted in the anonymous author (Rev. Samuel Johnson) being heavily fined and imprisoned for writing and publishing a scandalous and seditious book. The text block is complete but the top board is disbound and the rear board hangs by one string. Contemporary not…

First Edition. A scarce early edition, published in Scotland. 1st thus. With four page introduction by McNicol 'Observations on the life of Johnson' Small format, worn leather on boards.Worn to spine, particularly at top edge. Contemporary name in ink to title page. Some closed tears to first two preliminary pages, including the…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. A fairly scarce edition of Chalmer's extensively revised text of Johnson's famous dictionary. Bound in full leather boards - front cover completely detached, splits to the spine, but stitching still holding, and some wear to the boards/board extremities - the covers need some TLC. Inte…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later American edition. 12mo. 15.5 cm x 9.5 cm. [5], 8-295, [7] pp. Lacks the half-title. Original endpapers bound in the rear. Recently rebacked red morocco over contemporary red morocco boards with a recent black morocco label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges marbled. Illustrated with a…

Printed fro Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London, etc, etc, 1818, 1st edition thus. This edition " with numerous corrections, and with the addition of several thousand words, as also with additions to the history of the language and to the grammar by the Rev H.J. Todd". Four volume set in matching modern half morocco with…

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Revised and Enlarged Edition. xlv, [3], 556; [6], 543; [6], 541; [6], 557; xxvii, [3], 596; xii, [2], 496 pp. 8vo, burgundy cloth, gilt spine titles and ruled head and tail. Frontispiece portraits to all vols. Vols 1-4 are 1934 first printings of the Powell revised edition. Vols. 5 & 6 are 1964 S…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lot of 36 titles from the Arno / New York Times Series The American Negro, His History and his literature. All told, the volumes are clean and well kept. From the home of a well regarded historian of Black studies. Also was a tobacco smoker, and that combined with age has led to occasional toning…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1866-70. 2 vols.in 4. Bound in red cloth (faded) with 3/4 morocco (sunned at spine, and partly stained to vol.1, no.1 & vol.2, no.1. Edges sl.rubbed.). All edges and e.ps.marbled. Flyleaves and half title page somewhat spotted and some pages light spotted. With 2 cards of "Presented to the Reu.Dr.Hasl…

1p., 8vo. Bifolium. Twenty-seven lines of text. Good, on aged paper, with minor traces of previous mounting. Addressed, with black ink circular postmark ('20 | NO'), on reverse of second leaf, ''To Mr Ellis | att Mr Taverners in Thread-needle Street'. The letter begins: 'Nothing can yield Persons in our Stations greater Satisfac…

Autograph Note in the third person. On one of 11 x 20 cm slip of paper. In good condition, lightly aged, with stub from mount adhering to reverse. Reads: 'Mrs. Piozzi's Coms. And if Dr. Perney is disengaged this Eveng & would like to hear Mr. Yaniewitsh play on the Violin She should be happy in his Company to Tea - - - and it wo…

First Edition. First Edition. Very Good condition. Owner signature (dated 1874). Rare in the original edition. Episcopal priest, seminary professor. Seabury was professor at General Theological Seminary, editor of THE CHURCHMAN, rector of the Church of the Annunciation, and grandson of Bishop Samuel Seabury. Samuel Seabury (1801…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine l…