Search Results: the lives of most eminent by johnson samuel

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.

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

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.

Benjamin Warner. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Two volumes of leather-bound three-volume set; Vol. I (408 p.) is complete but front board is detached and t.p. is smudged and stained, with name of former owner wrotten on upper margin--lower margin torn away, as is lower margin of "The Original Advertisement to the First Edition, 1779-1780." The rest of the volume is in much better condition, though some pages dog-eared and many are foxed. Paper is of fine quality and quite strong.T.O.C. comprises : Cowley, Denham, Milton, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Waller, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh and Dryden. Volume II is missing. Volume II (348 p.) begins with p. 17 and both the front and back boards are missing--a large label showing it to be part of an inheritance hides most of the text of p. pp. 17-39 are dog-eared at lower corner. Paper strong, though foxed. Articles include: Swift, Broome, Pope, Thomson, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young, Mallet,… Read More

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.

Edinburgh: James Sawers, 1818. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 4 only. [4], 314 p.; 17 cm. Contemporary half polished black calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Red leather label in second and fourth compartments with gilt-tooled title and volume number; gilt-tooled decoration on remainder of spine. Marbled paper over boards with blind-rolled decoration along leather edges. All page edges marbled; marbled endpaper. Printed by R. Chapman, Glasgow. Contents: William Collins -- Jonathan Swift -- Alexander Pope -- Christopher Pitt -- Isaac Watts -- Ambrose Philips -- Gilbert West -- William Shenstone -- David Mallet -- Mark Akenside -- Thomas Gray -- George Lyttelton. In Very Good Condition: rubbed, with minor loss at head of spine; light foxing on a few pages; otherwise, clean and tight.

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

Derby & Jackson, 1861. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1861; two volume complete set; black cloth covered boards; wear and discoloration around edges; corners are scuffed in both volumes; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Derby & Jackson, New York, 1861. 2 volumes: 7.5" X 5.25" in blindstamped black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Vol.2 has heavy wear to the surface of the blindstamping near the fore edge, top corners fraying, starting to fray at top of spine; Vol. 1 fraying at top of spine, both top corner tips. Owner's name in pencil in both volumes, bindings are sound, pages nice and clean: Overall, about GOOD to GOOD PLUS condition. 635pp & 648pp.. Hardcover. Good.

Printed by J. Nichols and Son for J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, et al., London, 1806. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj. Vg condition. Full calf binding, leather slightly edgeworn though fully intact, spine title labels present: clean, clear and bright. Previous owner's name on front endpaper; contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding sturdy, square and tight. 460 pp., frontis. engraving of Johnson.

Edinburgh: James Sawers, 1818. Hardcover. Good. Three volumes, lacking vol. 4. Full leather gilt with black spine labels gilt, 12mo., xxiv, 311; 310; 336 pages. Front board of vol. 1 detached, presentation bookplate to Robert Newton Hayward from Edinburgh Southern Academy, with their shield in gilt on boards, light edgewear, some staining to vols. 1 & 2. Bound without the portrait or ads. Good presentible copies.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

John Murray. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Volume 3. Reading copy only. Spine heavily worn. Boards detached. Slightly dampstained. (English Poets, Biography, Criticism)

London: F. C. and J. Rivington, W. Nicol and Son, J. Nunn, et al, 1821. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. Rebound in brown faux leather with gilt lettering on spines. New endpapers. Condition is GOOD ; the recent bindings are excellent, the original text is good with some toning to the paper. Vol 1 has underlining and margin notes in pen, Vol 2 has far less. Johnson. RGR.