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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, xii + 408pp. Softcover, in very good condition. Firm binding and crisp, unmarked, interior. Raised blind stamp to bottom of half-title, otherwise no signs of prior ownership. Minor shelf-wear or rubbing to extremities. A great copy overall.

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Small Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Crease on rear board causing beginning of split to paper, 1/2 inch closed tear to bottom margin of one page, rear endpapers lightly foxed. 1937 Small Hard Cover. 53 pp. 4 5/8 x 3 1/4. Pink decorative paper over boards. A collection of verse and excerpts of works by various authors, including Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, J.M. Barrie, Mark Twain, and Lewis Carroll.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jonathan Richardson Cover Art (illustrator). First Edition. -------------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Fine example, in a Fine dustjacket, looks new, 405 pages, some b&w images,---" Pope's letters are fascinating documents, apart from his importance as a poet. Highly revealing of his remarkable character--ambitious, dangerous, trimming, ridiculous, intelligent, generous yet antagonistic--they also comprise a body of writing of extraordinary interest for an understanding of his times: its personalities, its plots, its tragedies and exiles, its loves, its scandals, the movement of its religious, political, and philosophical ideas, its sense of poetry, and its notions of poetic craft and genre. Moreover, Pope published a collection of his own letters: a selective and highly edited collection, in which (having retrieved the originals from some recipients) he revised their texts and on occasion claimed they had been written to other people. This came to light with the nineteenth-century discovery of transcripts of the original letters, made for Pope's correspondent Lord Caryll. Other letters preserved in the British Library's Homer MS are clearly ones the poet would not have chosen to keep, since he used their backs for drafts of his Iliad translation. -----George Sherburn's scholarly five-volume Collected Correspondence (Oxford, 1956) is the necessary basis for any new edition. The collection presented here is in the first place a balanced and varied selection from Sherburn. Since 1956, however, many new letters have been discovered, and this volume includes most of them. Many are among Pope's best, though they have till now been scattered in learned journals. -----This selection supplies an introduction, a commentary on each letter identifying allusions and quotations (with translations where necessary), and thematic and biographical indexes. "---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.5w x 8.75h Inches. Not Signed. Flap Not Clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Small surface tear from removed sticker on front pastedown, very good in a price clipped, very good chipped and water stained dust jacket. Includes selections by William Blake, Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and others.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. AS NEW. 4 vols. set.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. 73 of the 75 volumes of this set. This is a new edition dating from 1790. This set was originally published in 1779. All are in good to very good condition with rubbing to the spine and around the edges and some light marking and edge wear to the front and rear panels. Each volume has gilt decorations and three title panels on the spine: At the top this is burgundy and has 'Johnson's Poets' on it and this is present and more or less complete on 54 volumes; in the centre it is black and has the names of the poets in the volume on it and this is present on 38 volumes; and at the bottom there should be a small black panel with the volume number - this has proved the most fragile and is now only present on 3 volumes. There is a little browning to the page edges. Each volume has the original owner's bookplate - this was Alfred Octavius Hartley, M.A. of Steeple Ashton Vicarage in Wells in Norfolk. There is a little browning to the endpapers. The pages are also slightly browned with marks and stains to a few volumes but they are generally free from any spotting. The set deals with the life and work of 66 poets. Volumes 1-6 contain the lives of the poets and the final two volumes contain a general index. The remaining volumes contain the works of the poets. Some volumes contain the works of more than one poet while for the major poets several volumes are devoted to their work. Because this is a set of 73 volumes there will be an additional postage charge so if this is a concern please make contact before ordering so the different options can be discussed.

Hard Bound. Condition: Good. Hawkesworth Edition. 24 volumes in uniform contemporary full leather bindings with raised bands and intricate floral designs and author/title and volume slips in the compartments. Although most of the author/title and volume slips are missing, stamps to the leather are clear; the author/title compartments all read "Swift's Works," and the volume numbers run from 1 to 24. All 24 volumes have the "Hawthorn Farm" bookplate on them. The volumes are octavo measuring 7 3/8" by 4.5". Vols. 1-18 dated 1766; Vols. 19-21 dated 1768; Vols. 22-24 dated 1769. Internally, Vols. 19-21 are called the "Seventh Edition" and Vols. 1-3 of the "Letters," and Vols. 22-24 are called the "Third Edition" and Vols. 4-6 of the "Letters." Internally, all of the volumes, including the plates, are very nice; the texts are clean and bright. Externally, all of the volumes are tight except volumes 1, 2, and 14. Most volumes have wear with slight loss at the head and foot of the spine, areas of spine separation, and missing author/title and volume slips and are at least Good. Vol. 1 is split vertically in the middle of the spine, but the upper third is holding. The cover and front free endpaper of Vol. 2 are almost detached. Vol. 14 has the front cover loosening and starting to detach but is still holding. One of the great eighteenth-century satirists, Swift is known for such works as Gulliver's Travels and A Tale of a Tub. Unrestored contemporary sets like this are increasingly hard to find.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In French. Published by Nourse, fake place, London, first edition (1753) In 12, 16.5x9.5 cm wonderful leather binding, strong white paper, with gold titles, red died end papers. pp XXIII,1, 248. Jonathan Swift was famous for his Gulliver's Travels, he was a Tory supporter, against the war on the Continent and against the useless wars of the duke of Marlborough. Franch translation by the Abbé de Velly, mathematician and doctor of the Queen. It is a bitter satyre on the English strategies from the Peace of Utrecht. Querard claimed that it was written by J. Arbuthnot a friend of Swift, Gay and Pope. This book marks the birth of the quintessential British man, John Bull. (France littéraire, IX, 303. Mylne, 53.2). Ex Libris and from the library of Colonel Sir Edwin King Perkins, CBE, VD, (28 February 1855 - 8 January 1937) a British Conservative Party politician and M.P.

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Londres, J. Nours, 1753. In-12, plein veau de l'époque, dos orné de caissons dorés, xxiii, (1), 248 p. Première édition française de la traduction de 'The History of John Bull.' donnée par l'abbé François Velly. Médecin de la reine, mathématicien et écrivain écossais, John Arbuthnot était l'ami de Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope et John Gay, avec lesquels il fonda la célèbre société satirique: le Scriblerus Club. Cet ouvrage contient le recueil des cinq pamphlets que John Arbuthnot composa à partir de 1712, réunis et publiés par Swift et Pope. Allégorie spirituelle des manoeuvres politiques de la Grande-Bretagne, de la France, de l'Espagne et de la Hollande, qui conduisirent au traité d'Utrecht (1713), l'oeuvre met en scène, pour la première fois, la figure de John Bull, personnification de la nation britannique qui obtint un immense succès et persiste encore aujourd'hui. (France littéraire, IX, 303. Mylne, 53.2). Mors et coiffes usés, qqs manques de cuir.

Piece of paper, 14 x 7.5cm, signature on reverse of marbled paper, perhaps endpaper of book, and an ownership signature. Good condition.

Complete in fifty-three volumes, 8vo, Chaucer in six volumes, Dryden and Spenser in five, Burns, Churchill, Cowper, Milton, Pope and Swift in three and Butler, Prior, Thomson and Young in two. Portrait frontispieces of all the poets except Falconer, as published, some light foxing, armorial bookplates of Philip Stapleton Humberston in all but the Spenser volumes, Pickering's small bookseller's label to the paste downs of 22 volumes. Original full morocco in various colours, a.e.g., the Spenser volumes with some wear to the joints and spine ends, otherwise a very good set.

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