Search Results: the lives of the most eminent by johnson samuel

Charles Whittingham, for John Sharpe, 1806. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1806. No Edition Stated. 152 pages. Brown tree calf with gilt titles to spine. Vol VII. With illustrated frontispiece. Note: a heavily damaged book with loose front board. Pages are rather marked with pronounced tanning and foxing, plus thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. A few dog-eared corners. Heavy water staining to first few pages. Intense cracking to hinges. Boards have heavy edge wear, with bumping and fraying to corners and almost total loss of edge tooling. Spine ends are crushed and frayed. Joints worn too. Large loss of spine leather with visible gatherings and possible fire damage. Front board almost detached. Scratched, rubbed and marked overall.

James Parker and Co, 1869. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1869. Second Edition. 413 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with decorations. Volume I. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Heavy sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Forgotten Books, 2018. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Hardcover volume one only 1810 printing. Front cover separated from binding. The binding suffers moderate loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: J. Nichols, 1810. Full leather binding, all edges stained red. Two spots on rear cover rubbed to boards, spine joints cracked else clean tight copy: Good+. 8vo. Frontispiece engraving of Samuel Johnson. VOLUME THREE ONLY.

George Clark and Son, 1847. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Textblock only, could be re-bound by an expert. Occasional foxing. Scarce in any condition.

London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 'A New Edition, Corrected'. Could have been a library book (signs of ripped out ticket holder and plate on front end papers, but no other signs). In very good olive green cloth boards, gilt titles to back strip. The covers are very clean, tight and straight and are not the original. Clean off-white replacement end papers. Tanned cut edges. The text block is original from publisher; a little worn; tightly bound; some pages slightly wrinkled; sporadic foxing. Very good condition. No annotations or dedications. Without jacket.

London Whittigham Sharpe 1805, 1805. Paperback. Fair. Poor HB 32mo sp has lost some of its covering front cover very loose

London Whittigham Sharpe 1806, 1806. Paperback. Fair. Poor HB 32mo no sp front cover detached

Nichols & Son, 1810. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Fair ; No jacket. 1810 Nichols & Son. Volume 1 of 3 only. "A New Edition, Corrected." Hardcover is full bound in brown leather, with blind-stamped borders on covers and milled edges. The spine has five raised bands, gold lettering on two panels and gold designs on three panels. Black & white frontispiece. 460 pages. Spine title: JOHNSON'S LIVES OF THE POETS. VOL. 1. Printed by John Nichols and Son, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London NOT ex-library. Hinges NOT cracked. Binding itself is intact. The leather spine covering is cracked along the edge and across in places, and missing some of the top corner; there is a small piece of clear adhesive tape on the front edge of the bottom panel. Leather covering is worn, with tips exposed. Endpapers foxed, but not the pages. Name in ink on title page and another on the front free endpaper. Two pages are missing tip of top corner. One page has a half-inch tear at the fore-edge margin. Pages lightly and… Read More

Edinburgh: James Sawers, 1818. Cloth. Good. Bound in quarter pale brown cloth, boards covered in grey/green paper, paper label, 336pp. Water stains on front board, both endpapers, title page and contents page, owner's name Lady Mary Stewart. Condition of text (other than first two pages) is g to vg.

Edinburgh: James Sawers, 1818. Quarter Leather . Good. Bound in dark maroon leather and maroon cloth, 311pp. Water stain on rear endpaper and last page, bubbles under front endpaper pastedown, corners bumped, condition of text is g to vg.

Forgotten Books, 2018. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1880. Later. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, Brown boards with gilt and black letters and graphics. The front and rear boards have a slight bow. There is a damp stain on the front and rear boards and the edges of pages. No interruption of the text. Pages 450 and 451 show fading; the result of a piece of paper being left in the book. There is light foxing throughout. Gifted 1882 on the first free page back. The "Chandos Classics". 588 pages.

A. Strahan, 1800. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1800. No Edition Remarks. 322 pages. Fully bound in brown leather. Volume IV. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Light thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Leather peeling to all surfaces, with noticeable scuffing and scratches overall. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

London: J. Buckland, C. Bathurst and T. Davies, 1793. Later edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Volume 3 only. Later Edition, 1793. Hardcover, 1/2 leather with marbled boards. 256 pp. Fair copy: both boards loose, but present; spine leather has deteriorated, but the backstrip is still holding the pages intact. Some pages are lightly foxed or faded, but the text is still readable. Previous owner's signatures on the front blank. Poets from this volume: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Gay, Granville, Yalden, Tickell, Hammond, Somervile, Savage, Swift, Broome.

London: Whittingham Sharpe, 1806. First. . Hardcover. Poor. 8vo. Backstrip and front board missing rear almost detached. both vols have 176pp

Halifax: William Milner,, 1835. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good. inscription on title page small splits side spine

Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute &c., 1806. some wear to leather, but spine and labels intact, text block clean and sound. Odd volume of a four-vol. set. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. No Edition Stated.. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket.

Frederick Warne & Co. Book. Good. Hardcover. Slight split to one side of spine. Spine faded. Corners bumped. Prize plate inside front cover. 588pp.

H. Baldwin et al, 1801. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1801. No edition remarks. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, moderate to end-papers and text-block edges. Minor cracking to gutter at front exposing binding cloth. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Boards are bowed. Minor dust marks on both boards. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.