London: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes [et al], 1762. [4],108,288pp. Attractively bound in modern brown full paneled calf, gilt spine label, in contemporary style. Bound without preliminary advert leaf, early stamp on title, first two leaves remargined at gutter and slightly frayed at edges, occasional minor foxing or.....
Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. xxiv,382pp. plus folding map. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked to style, raised bands, gilt label. Bound with the half- title, but without the terminal blank. Typical offsetting from binding to edges of endleaves, map a bit offset to.....
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, 1768. xxii,[2],384pp. plus folding map. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and recornered to style in brown morocco, gilt label. Bound with the half-title. Typical offsetting from binding to edges of endleaves, map a bit foxed and offset to A1 and blank.....
Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. xxiv,382pp. plus folding map (bound before A1). Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with most of the original backstrip laid down. Bound with the half-title and the terminal blank. Typical offsetting from binding to edges of endleaves, a bit.....
New York: Viking, 1936. Cloth and boards, paper spine label. Folding map. A fine, unopened copy in slipcase. First edition of this text, edited by Frederick Pottle and Charles H. Bennett. One of 790 numbered copies (of 816), published in format uniform with the Isham edition of the PRIVATE PAPERS.....
London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Three volumes. Large octavo. Cloth, gilt spine labels. Portrait. Binding a trace rubbed, spines sunned, distinguished collector's tasteful bookplate on each pastedown, but a very good set in worn and cracked slipcase. One of fifteen hundred numbered sets, printed at the Curwen Press. Edited, with.....
London: Printed for Henry Baldwin, 1791. xii,[16],516;588[i.e.586],[1]pp. Two volumes. Quarto. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked and recornered at a later date to a semblance of style, gilt labels. Portrait. Facsimile and plate. 19th century ink name ("Walter Fletcher") on endsheets and effaced from margin of titles, edges rubbed, endsheets creased, some.....
Dublin: Printed by John Chambers [& John Exshaw, & Robert Rhames for second and third volumes respectively] for R. Cross, et al, 1792. Three volumes. xxxiv,536;[2],605;573pp. plus two folding plates. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt extra, gilt green morocco lettering pieces. Occasional minor soiling, narrow crack at toe of lower.....
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1946]. Gilt cloth. Frontis and plates. First edition. A couple of shallow dents in edges of lower cover, edges foxed, but a good, sound copy in price-clipped dust jacket.
Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell & Son, 1802. 24pp. Small octavo. Sewn into somewhat later plain wrappers. A few minor corner nicks, wrappers split at spine, trivial foxing, otherwise a near fine copy. First edition, first printing, of the first separate publication by the son of the biographer. In addition to.....
Norwich: Printed by Richard Beatniffe, 1775. [48],xxi,[1],264,[2]pp. plus three plates. Engraved dedication leaf. Octavo. Contemporary calf, newly rebacked in ruled calf with gilt label. Binding a bit darkened at edges, old tidemark in lower gutter quarter of dedication leaf and plates, early ink name on title of A. Wickham and.....
Dublin: Printed for W. Whitestone [et al], 1778. xvi,478pp. plus six plates (two folding) of buildings and artifacts. Octavo. Modern cloth, gilt label (attributing the work to Watkinson). Early ink name on title, old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, slight discoloration to extreme upper fore-corners of first few leaves.....
London: Printed by A. Strahan; for T. Cadell, 1788. [2],19,[1]pp. Quarto (signed in 2s). Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Old stamp of a defunct mercantile library, one word crossed through in a contemporary hand, trimmed close at fore- edge (though not affecting text), but a good, crisp copy. First edition.....
London: Printed for W. Griffin, 1768. vi,[2],74,[2]pp. Octavo. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Half-title bound in. Some foxing and modest tanning, surface scrape across spine; a good copy. First edition, Todd's '2d' impression, with 'spake' at 12:36; the catchword 'His' on p. [75]; 8.....
London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1765. [4],iv,22,[2]pp. Quarto. Full green crushed levant, gilt extra, by Riviere, a.e.g.. Upper joint a bit weak, otherwise a very good copy, with the bookplate of N.F. Brady and the gilt label of the Brick Row Bookshop. First edition of Goldsmith's first separately published poem.....
[New Haven]: Reprinted from THE YALE REVIEW, Autumn 1975. Stapled printed wrappers. Author's separate. Near fine. Inscribed by Hilles to his friend and colleague, Boswell editor and biographer Frederick A. Pottle: "FAP from FWH with Compliments No acknowledgement please!" Hilles, the eminent 18th century scholar and authority on Reynolds, co-edited.....
[Houston]: An Offprint from STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 ... VI:3, Summer 1966. Printed wrappers. Author's separate. Near fine. Inscribed by Hilles to his friend and colleague, Boswell editor and biographer Frederick A. Pottle: "For Fred from Ted with Compts [your biography & Ralph W[indecipherable] were published after my deadline].".....
[Np]: Extrait de la GAZETTE DES BEAUX-ARTS, nd [but ca 1969]. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Author's separate. Soft crease and smudging, very good. Inscribed by Hilles to his friend and colleague, Boswell editor and biographer Frederick A. Pottle: "Christmas greetings to F.A.P. from FWH." Hilles, the eminent 18th century scholar and.....
London [i.e. Birmingham]: Printed for A. Bettesworth, and C. Hitch, 1735. xii,396,[8]pp. Octavo. Modern three quarter calf and boards. Title printed in red and black. Usual foxing and darkening early and late (the book was printed on poor quality paper), marginal restoration to title leaf along fore-edge, repaired tear in.....
London: Printed for Elliot and Kay ... And C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1789. [4],248,247-500,[2]pp. Large octavo. Original boards, untrimmed. Boards unfortunately rebacked at some point in the 20th century with black binder's tape, title and a few margins a bit dusty, signs of repair along inner hinge, otherwise a good copy.....
London: Printed for R. Dodsley ... and Sold by M. Cooper ... 1749. [8],86,[2]pp. Octavo. Extracted from pamphlet volume. T.e.g., a few small smudges to half-title, otherwise a very good copy, with the advert leaf. First edition of Johnson's only play, published a dozen years after its completion as a......
London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1788. Two volumes. xvi,397 [390/1 duplicated],[1]; xi,[1],423,[1]pp. Two volumes. Octavo. Old calf, rebacked in approximate style. Armorial bookplate in each volume, scattered foxing, somewhat more pronounced to prelims and terminal leaves, old tide mark in upper gutter of prelims and endleaves of.....
London: Printed for C. Bathurst [et al], 1781. Four volumes. Contemporary calf, gilt labels, spines gilt extra. Portrait in first volume. Joints cracked, four boards and a couple of endsheets detached, chipping at head and toe of spines, but textually a very good set, with the bookplates of Willis Vickery.....
Oxford: University Press, 1930. Folio. Marbled wrappers, paper label. Collotype facsimile. One of 300 copies. A few nicks, and split at toe of spine, else very good.
London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1749. 28pp. Quarto. Modern three quarter black morocco, lettered in gilt. Carefully calligraphed early ownership signature on title leaf ("John Costman"), early acquisition inscription at base of title, some minor foxing along the top edge, and faint old floral offset to gutters of first two.....
