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. In-12. Relié pleine basane marron. Dos droit avec dorures et pièce de titre cuir rouge. 323 pages . Illustré de gravures NB en hors texte dont un frontispice (portrait de l'auteur). Très bon état intérieur. Petits frottements d'usage sur la reliure. Bon état général.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 2 volumes of 3, Vols 19 & 20 in the historic series: The British Novelists; with An Essay; and Prefaces, biographical and critical by Mrs Barbauld. Original bindings, in red leather quarter binding, with marbled panels, all rather rubbed, corners bumped, but nonetheless sturdy bindings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1823. TWO VOLUMES (VOLUME XXV, & XXVI). 765pp. GOLDEN BROWN TOOLED LEATHER HARDBOUND WITH GILT GOLD STAMPED/EMBOSSED TITLE/FLORAL DESIGN ON SPINE COVER WITH A DIAMOND PATTERN STAMPED ON LEATHER BOARDS FRAMED BY A FINE GILT GOLD BORDER AND AND FLORAL DETAIL ON BOARD EDGES, FRONTIS PAGE WITH ENGRAVED IMAGE OF GEORGE COLEMAN ESQ. OF VOLUME XXV. DIMENSIONS: 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" x 1". CONDITION: VERY GOOD; 1/4" x 1/4" CHIP AT UPPER RIGHT SIDE OF SPINE CROWN AND LIGHTER CHIPPING AT SPINE HEEL OF VOLUME XXV, SOME RUBBED AREAS OF BOARD EDGES, CORNERS GENTLY BUMPED/RUBBED, PERSONAL EX-LIBRIS LABEL PASTED INSIDE FRONT BOARD, LIGHT PENCIL PRICING NOTE AND SMALL BOOKSELLER LABEL PASTED INSIDE REAR BOARD PAGE, 1ST COUPLE OF PAGES LIGHTLY BROWN SPOTTED, REMAINING TEXT WHITE AND BRIGHT, STRONG HINGES AND VERY GOOD CONDIITON OVERALL.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. 168 x 110mm. Contemporary green blind decoarted cloth, gilt. 102 pages. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1789 novel by Scottish author John Moore that centers on the vicious deeds of the eponymous anti-hero, the evil Italian nobleman Zeluco. The British Novelists; with An Essay; and Prefaces, biographical and critical by Mrs Barbauld - Vols 34 & 35. Original bindings, in red leather quarter binding, with marbled panels, all rather rubbed, corners bumped, but nonetheless sturdy bindings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. with GREGORY Dr (John) A Father s Legacy to His Daughters and PENNINGTON Lady (Sarah) A Mother s Advice to Her Absent Daughters with an additional letter on the management and education of infant children, with biographical sketches of Mrs Chapone and Dr Gregory, original full-leather, raised bands, decorated in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, frontispiece and vignette title-page, marbled edges, ink inscription, very good. 240 pages; keywords: literary collections - letters;

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. First Thus. London: F.C. & J. Rivington; J. Walker; J. Cuthell; W. Lowndes; Scatcherd and Letterman; W. Bent; J. Nunn; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Carpenter; W. Otridge; Cadell and Davies; J. Richardson; J. Mawman; A.K. Newman; J. Booker; R. Baldwin; T. Hamilton; and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner. Printed by S. hamilton, Weybridge. 1813. Three volumes, full calf with gilt dentelles and accents, marbled endpapers and marbled page edges. Volume 3 of the three is in quite very good condition, with primarily just some scuffing at spine top and hinges, and bumped corners. Volume 2 of the three is losing spine cover at the top, front cover detached but present; volume 1 of the three has nearly detached spine cover, front cover detached but present. Otherwise, 1 & 2 are in a similar state to volume 3. Volumes 1 and 2 have a nice complement of engravings, for a poetic collection. Volume 3, definitely a part of the set, appears to have none. No doubt a decision of the plenitude of publishers. Inscription of Anne Fuller Rogers, dated in Boston, in 1896, is likely that of the Anne Fuller Rogers who, at about that time, attended M.I.T. and there met Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, famed bacteriologist and public health expert, who she would later marry - giving this set a (probable) interesting smidgen of association status. See scans. L20n.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). Both copies are smart. Full calf leather. Stamped gilt cypher on the front boards. The spines have five ridges with different coloured leather patches for titling. The boards have blind stamped decoration, gilt borders. The inside rims of the boards have gilt decoration. The boards have shelving wear to the edges and corners. The spines have much wear all along the bodies, to the heads and feet. Nonetheless, the boards are handsome, steady and sure. The contents are most pleasing. They are fresh-faced, certain, agreeably healthy, clean and clear, convivial, neat, tidy, classy, with a pleasing jeunesse. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 352 pages(complete). An estimable copy. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spine wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spine are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very, very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming and dignified. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

21 volumes. 8vo, 212 x 126, pp. [volume 1]: lxxvi, [3] 585 [586 blank]; [volume 2]: [iv], 697 [698 blank]; volume 3: [iv], [3], 4 549 [550 blank], with engraved illustration of the Globe on page 64 and 3 folding leaves inserted between pages 356 and 357; volume 4: [iv], [3] 4 483 [484 blank]; volume 5: [iv], [3] 4 532; volume 6: [iv], [2] 3 521 [522 blank]; volume 7: [iv], [5] 540; volume 8: [iv], [3] 4 456; volume 9: [iv], [3] 4 501 [502 blank], with steel-engraved plate printed vertically on page 501; volume 10: [iv], [2] 3 493 [494 blank]; volume 11: [iv], [3] 4 508; volume 12: [iv], [2] 3 432; volume 13: [iv], [2] 3 436; volume 14: [iv], [5] 6 430; volume 15: [iv], [2] 3 434; volume 16: [iv], [3] 4 435 436 blank], with folding engraved plate of Morris Dancers between pages 418 and 429; volume 17: [iv], [5] 6 482, with printed music in text on page 426 [Henry V]; volume 18: [iv], [3] 4 597 [598 blank]; volume 19: [iv], [3] 4 502; volume 20: [iv], [7] 8 468; volume 21: [iv], [3] 4 546 [547 Errata, 548 blank], engraved portrait of Shakespeare as frontispiece in volumes 1 and 2, bound in attractive straight-grain blue morocco, by Dickenson of Cambridge, with his stamp in blind "Dickenson Binder Cambridge" on the front cover of volumes 1 and 21, with the arms of Christ's College, Cambridge, in gilt on each cover, within a gilt and blind border, decorative ornaments in each corner, spine gilt with ornaments at top (Lancashire rose, with crown above) and base (portcullis surmounted by crown, for the Houses of Parliament) of spine, with decorations in gilt to fore-edges, all edges gilt; some slight damp-staining of pink end-papers, but a fine set. The literary career of Edmund Malone (1741 1812), who was trained as a barrister and was called to the Irish bar in 1767, was facilitated by an inheritance of £1000 from his uncle. He moved to London permanently in May, 1777, where he renewed his acquaintance with the Shakespearian scholar George Steevens (1736 1800). His first Shakespearean endeavour was that of determining, as best he could, the chronology of Shakespeare's plays. In a short period of time, he had embarked on his own edition of Shakespeare, writing to Joseph Warton in November, 1785, "My Shakespeare hardly leaves me time for eating or sleeping." He enthusiastically embarked on publishing his early results, remarking in Dec ember, 1785, to James Caulfiedl, First Ear of Charlemont (1728 1799), that "My edition of Shakespeare takes up all my time at present. I have printed about half my work, but it will be a full year before it will be completed." The edition was published in 1790. Malone died before he could complete the present edition, usually known as "The Malone-Boswell third variorum edition." As the unofficial literary executor of Malone's estate, James Bowell the younger (1778 1822) undertook the task of completing this edition. Boswell had plenty of material to work with. As Malone's biographer, Peter Martin writes, "Malone discovered more about Shakespeare's life than anyone before or since . He also discovered much about Shakespeare's immediate family . The influence of the edition would extend throughout the nineteenth century and into the modern era of Shakespearean scholarship, which while it has demonstrated that Malone made mistakes, has also confirmed his distinctions as a pioneer not simply in matters Shakespearean but in literary-historical scholarship as a profession." Peter Martin: Edmund Malone. Shakepearean scholar. A literary biography. (Cambridge, 1995).