Thomas Roscoe Jonathan Swift (33 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Rebound in brown unmarked cloth. Marbled sides to text block. Binding tight and text clean, no markings or foxing. New binding has no wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Rebound in brown unmarked cloth. Marbled sides to text block. Binding tight and text clean, no markings or foxing. New binding has no wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Half brown calf with marbled paper boards. Marbled sides to text block. Condition is FAIR : Covers detached and spine gone. endpaper and following pg detached but present. Remaining binding is tight and text clean and bright with no markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Half brown calf with marbled paper boards. Marbled sides to text block. Condition is FAIR : Covers detached and spine also, which is covered in clear tape. endpaper partly detached. Remaining binding is tight and text clean and bright with no markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Rebound in brown unmarked cloth. Marbled sides to text block. Binding tight and text clean, no markings or foxing. New binding has no wear.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

VOLUME II ONLY of a six volume set. Full title: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D., AND DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN. WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND ADDITIONS AND A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. BY THOMAS ROSCOE. COMPLETE IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. II. i-xiv, 15-628 pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 13.25cm. Original light brown full calf leather binding; splitting to front and rear joints leaving boards attached but tenuous, the front board more so than the rear; surface abrasion to spine with shallow wear at ends; spine decorated with two original black title labels with gilt lettering; slender scuffing along board edges with corners worn (book now presented in a trimmed clear Dura-Lar polyester film sheet forming a dj which aids in securing boards and enhances shelf presence). All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Original owner's antiquarian ink inscription upon front flyleaf "J.O. Banks | Columbus | Miss | Dec. '1859" with his purple ink name stamp "J.O. Banks" at top of title page. Foxing and toning strongest on initial and rear leaves with lighter occurrences upon interior pages; mild diagonal crease affecting interior leaves as well. Text block binding is firm. A good antiquarian copy. Contents are: "Gulliver's Travels," "A Tale of a Tub," "The History of Martin, "The Battle of the Books," "A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit," "The Drapier's Letters," and "Memoirs of Captain John Creichton." Born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, James Oliver Banks (1829-1904) graduated with a bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama in 1847 and 1850 respectively later followed by a medical degree from Jefferson College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Banks entered Civil War military service as a captain in September 1861 in Columbus, Mississippi with Company A, 5th Battalion, Mississippi Confederate Infantry rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in October 1862 with the 43rd Mississippi Infantry participating in action at the Battle of Corinth and Vicksburg with final service in Alabama and Georgia. Banks was first married to Martha Jane Coleman (1833-1868) of Greene County, Alabama with whom he had five children (of which two passed in infancy) and, following her death, married Lucy Watkins Young (1841-1933) on May 11, 1870 with whom he had five children (all surviving to adulthood). Lucy Young was one of ten children of George Hampton Young who owned the architecturally renowned Waverly Plantation on the west bank of the Tombigbee River between Columbus and West Point, Mississippi.…

Condition: New.

Half leather and marbled paper. Condition: As Described. No Jacket. The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., and Dean of Saint Patrick's, Dublin. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. In Two Volumes. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe; Portrait and Autograph. London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1864. Hardback, half calf and marbled paper boards, with matching marbled endpapers and page edges. Raised bands, with gilt-blocked title and decoration to spine, together with dark brown leather title labels and dark red leather volume labels. Contains frontispiece of Swift, foldout facsimile handwritten document including sample of Swift's handwriting, engraved Specimens of Wood's Halfpenny, and contemporary advertisements. Octavo/8vo gatherings but more like quarto/4to in size, measures around 6 1/4" x 9 1/2" x 2". Pagination: lxxxiv, 844 pp; iv, 854. Scuffing and wear to binding with a little loss to leather at head and tail of backstrips and some tearing to head and tail of first volume backstrip. Some tearing to hinges and to corners, which are bumped and torn, and some chipping and tearing to board edges. Rubbing at edges and on hinges. Some cracking to outer hinges and the front board to the first volume is fully detached along with the front endpaper, which is itself attached to the board. Some cracking to the inner hinges but binding reasonably firm aside from the loose board. Page edges display some fading, scuffing and marking but overall the marbled detail is still quite clear and generally clean. Foxing to endpapers but otherwise page surfaces throughout very reasonably clean, only the occasional mark, with no apparent underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.Jonathan Swift (born November 30, 1667, Dublin, Irelandâ€"died October 19, 1745, Dublin) was an Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated novel Gulliver's Travels (1726), he wrote such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and "A Modest Proposal" (1729). [Source: Britannica] lxxxiv, 844; iv, 854 pp. …

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. …

Hard. Condition: Good-. First printing thus. Good-. Ex-library; usual stamps and markings. Half-morocco and cloth covers are rubbed and worn around the edges. Outermost leaves a little grubby and with a touch of foxing. lxxxiv and 844pp. Portrait frontispiece. (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book presents a comprehensive guide to polite conversation as practiced in England during the 18th century. The author, an experienced social observer, spent years collecting and refining this set of polite questions, answers, replies, rejoinders, repartees, and remarks designed to elevate discourse among the upper classes. The book offers a fascinating glimpse into the social mores and linguistic conventions of the time, providing valuable insights into how the elite communicated and interacted during this period. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. …

Half - Leather. Condition: Very Good Minus. No Jacket. Vol 2 only. Leather lightly scuffed, marbled boards rubbed, hinges cracked, some foxing mainly to prelims, content clean and solid. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued without dust jacket. *** IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE UK YOU MUST CHOOSE PRIORITY MAIL OR YOUR ORDER WILL BE CANCELLED. THIS IS TO ALLOW AIR MAIL WIH TRACKING AND INSURANCE. *** This is a UK hardcover set - parts I and II - of Volume I of the Complete Works of Jonathan Swift, published by Bell and Daldy in 1869. The books are more or less in identical condition so the description I give applies to both. The books have straight spine, sharp corners and lightly softened spine ends, with marked boards - see photo. The books are tightly bound with sunning to the edges of the brown end papers and owner inscription to the front end paper. There is toning to the page edges and heavy toning to the opening end papers and title pages, but the interior text block is clean. The title page confirms the year of publication as 1869. Part I covers pages 1-351 and part II pages 370 to 844.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued without dust jacket. *** IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE UK YOU MUST CHOOSE PRIORITY MAIL OR YOUR ORDER WILL BE CANCELLED. THIS IS TO ALLOW AIR MAIL WIH TRACKING AND INSURANCE. *** This is a UK hardcover set - parts I and II - of Volume II of the Complete Works of Jonathan Swift, published by Bell and Daldy in 1869. The books are more or less in identical condition so the description I give applies to both. The books have straight spine, sharp corners and lightly softened spine ends, with bright boards. The books are tightly bound with sunning to the edges of the brown end papers and owner inscription to the front end paper. There is toning to the page edges, but the interior text block is clean. The title page confirms the year of publication as 1869. Part I covers pages 1-369 and part II pages 370 to 854.…

TWO VOLUME COMPLETE SET. Full title - THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D., AND DEAN OF SAINT PATRICK'S, DUBLIN: CONTAINING INTERESTING AND VALUABLE PAPERS, NOT HITHERTO PUBLISHED. IN TWO VOLUMES. WITH MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, BY THOMAS ROSCOE. VOLUME I and VOLUME II. Both volumes with matching London-Washbourne 1841 imprints. Hardcovers: H 24cm x L 15.5cm. Contemporary full black leather bindings; boards rubbed with slender wear at edges particularly at corners; boards decorated with two-line gilt borders adjoined by inner band featuring a stamped flower design; spines decorated with four slightly raised bands and dark maroon title label along with dark maroon volume# label; some scudding at spine ends and along joints. Darkened top edges; stains to toned fore-edges and bottom edges. Pale yellow endpapers; top left corner of each volume's front pastedown bears mid-19th century style bookbinder ticket for George W. Wilson - by no means definitively proven but, by circumstance of ownership of a Nashville tannery (certainly a trade with an affiliation to bookbinding) , the binder might well be Col. George W. Wilson (1778-1848) who served as Free and Accepted Masons Grand Master of Tennessee in 1840. Foxing/toning with some soiling, stains, and occasional creased corners to interior leaves. Double-column text. **** VOLUME I: i-lxxxiv, 1-844 pages. Several leaf stubs evident at front hinge with missing its muted yellow front free endpaper and at least one flyleaf; an extant flyleaf and adjacent frontis both slightly pulled but binding otherwise firm. Faded pencil signature at top of title page. Unpaged b/w frontispiece portrait of Swift with toned guard sheet. Includes "Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver . . ." aka "Gulliver's Travels." ***** VOLUME II: i-iv, 1-854 pages. Old ink and pencil writing on ffep but only with date at top margin still legible; old ink and pencil marks on rear pastedown; two stubs at rear hinge evidence missing rear flyleaf and rear free endpaper; binding remains firm. With unpaged foldout frontispiece facsimile Swift letter but with losses to its guard sheet. ***** Still a handsome set and, by the presence of each volume's respective Wilson ticket, evidently a relatively rare mid-19th century Tennessee binding by an obscure Nashville binder despite the books' London imprints. Please note that this set has an approximate shipping weight of 6.5 pounds (2.94 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 634.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 634.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 634.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 650.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 664.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 672.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 664.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1859 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 731 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. 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: 731.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1859 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: 729 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: 729 Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1880 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 873 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. 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: 873.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1851 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 941 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. 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: 941.…