Simon Olive Branch William Roberts (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fourth Edition. Vol. II, Numbers 26 to 49. The once leather covers are missing and only the leather spine with five gilt lines is present. The first page is the title page. The last page is 362. The title page and the following page are lose and laid in, as are the last two pages. Poor condition would only make a reading copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. London: J. Johnson; J. Nichols & Son; R. Baldwin; F. & C. Rivington. Et al, 1808. Volum XLIV (44) of the British Essayists series, 1808. Three quarter red calf over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering and ruling, marbled edges and endpapers, 243 pages. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities, corners lightly bumped, good joints/hinges, sound text block, old price ticket on front free endpaper, name on preliminary blank, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. FAIR / NO DUST JACKET. First American Edition, Stated. [6], 410 pp. Text clean and unmarked except for previous owner's name at free front endpaper, and a notation at back endpaper. Pages toned and foxed. Brown leather boards with dark red compartment at spine, spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Boards very worn and scuffed, front board detached, back board partly detached, spine cracked along its length, chipped, title compartment partly lost. Binding intact, but very tender. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. 12mo, pp. I, vi, 368; II, vi, 366, original gilt ruled full leather, title labels to spine missing, scuffed and rubbed, corners bumped, small area of leather missing on front cover of Vol I, interiors with mild handling creases but largely clean, bindings tight.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. The Looker-On, A Periodical Paper. By the Rev. Simon Olive-Branch, A.M. The First American Edition. Four Volumes in Two. Philadelphia: Printed for John Omrod, 1796, First American Edition. Full leather bindings measure 7.25 x 4.5 , 12mos. In fair condition. Mixed bindings. Volume I s boards are both detached. Volume I is ex-library of the Mechanic s Library of Lancaster, PA. Spines abraded and worn. Bindings worn with wear to extremities and corners. Interiors are lightly toned with scattered foxing throughout. Bindings are intact. Please see photos. Rev. Simon Olive-Branch [William Roberts] (1767 1849) was an English barrister and legal writer, an evangelical journal editor and the first biographer of Hannah More. Other contributors include James Beresford and Alexander Chalmers. Originally published in 86 numbers. March 10th, 1792 - January 11th, 1794; numbers 87-92 (Jan. 18-Feb. 1, 1794.) added in the collected edition. First American Edition. Complete set. RAREA1796CFGN - 12/22 FORN-TUB-0074-BB-2504-HKREV739.…

Leather Bound. Condition: Good. 4th Edition. 4 vols.: xxxix, 387; vi, 366; vi, 394; vi, 360, [28] p. Full leather with burgundy spine labels. Spine ends chipped. Front board on vol. 2 loosening. Crack in rear hinge of vol. 4. Corners worn. Ink signatures on front free endpapers and title pages. Ink marks on rear endpapers of vol. 1. Rev. Simon Olive-Branch was the pseudonym of William Roberts, whose short-lived journal The Looker-On existed from 1792 to 1793.…