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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Paperback / softback. New.

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