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New York, A.V. Blake, 1843-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Volume I only. 4to. 570p. Bound in contemporary full leather. Gilt lettering on spine. Good binding. Wear to extremities. Chipping and loss to head and tail of spine. Front board starting. Owners name of G. W. Nisbet on inside board and FEP. Crackling to leather on spine. Clean, unmarked pages. Scattered foxing.

Wentworth Press. Paperback. New. 9x6x0.

Paperback / softback. New.

GB: Nichols and Son; F.C. and J. Rivington; A. Strahan; Leigh and Sotheby ..., 1816. This set is LACKING VOLUME TWELVE. DISBOUND TEXTS (No covers). Main texts are quite clean and tight but some heavy spotting mostly to early and late leaves. Some repairs to closed tears in text. There MAY BE OTHER FAULTS. SOLD AS IS. Just a working part set. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 6000g. NOT AVAILABLE OVERSEAS. . Poor.

Hardback. New.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. Third Complete American Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two volume set. 23 x 14 cm. Octavo. xxx xii 570pp & 699pp. Old leather boards, newer tan cloth spine. Frontispiece in both volumes. Glue stain to the front cover of vol 1. Inscription dated 1874. Scuffing to boards.Stain to 2nd front and rear endpapers of volume 2.Binding tight.

London: Nichols and Son, 1816-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. 12 Volume Set. Bound in turn of the century full leather. Gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Elaborate tooling on spine and front cover. Gilt tooling on extremities and inside board. 11 raised bands to each volume. Good binding and cover. Marbled page ends. Chipping loss to head and tail of spine. Scuffing and loss to some back boards. Tape residue on some volumes. Front boards detached on most volumes, with boards starting on all volumes. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US.

London : J. Nichols & Son; F. & C. Rivington; Otridge & Son, et al; James Christie; J. Richardson; J. Walker; J. Offor, et al. , 1810-24. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Sir Joshua Reynolds . The complete collection of works by the famous English writer, Samuel Johnson, with an additional three volumes of biography. A new edition. In full calf binding with gilt detail. The complete twelve volume set of Samuel Johnson's works, with an essay on his life and genius by Arthur Murray. Showcasing the variety of Johnson's publications; from poetry to prose, essays and plays. Including famous works such as articles from 'The Rambler' and 'The Adventurer', 'A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland', and 'The Plan of an English Dictionary'. With an engraved frontispiece by Sir Joshua Reynolds, to volume one, and an advertisement by Alex Chalmers to the front of the book. Alongside three volumes from the four volume set of 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' by James Boswell. A detailed biography… Read More

Boston: Hastings, Etheridge and Bliss, 1809. New Edition. 12 volumes; octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue paper-covered boards, orange printed spine labels, deckled edges; engraved portrait frontispiece in Vol. I. Boards a bit scuffed, a few volumes with shallow losses at spine ends, rear cover of Vol. XIII and upper cover of Vol. XII separated but present, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpapers torn or trimmed away in all but two volumes; still, quite a fresh and sturdy set of an early American edition of Johnson's complete works, uncommon thus. Spine labels allude to a larger "Classics" series, of which these are Volumes XXXIII-XLIV. FLEEMAN 87.3W/10; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 17840. Not noted in Courtney & Smith.