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George Newnes Ltd., 1896. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1896. No edition remarks. 330 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are mildly tanned with minimal foxing. Moderate cracking to gutters. Mild staining to some pages. Crayon mark to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to front board and spine. Mild warping to boards.

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Palala Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Palala Press. hardcover. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Good. Good. No dust jacket as issued. all solid and clean few bumps here and there some were at spine of 1 and two at top all tight all six vols are red boards w/ gold print on spine w/ intact tissue on vol 1

Brown calf binding.Cream nameplate. Gilt decoration on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume. Interesting volumes with a novel pedigree
The Guardian was a short-lived newspaper published in London from 12 March to 1 October 1713. It was founded by Richard Steele and featured contributions from Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell, Alexander Pope and Ambrose Philips. Steele and Addison had previously collaborated on the Tatler and The Spectator (not related to the present-day Spectator or Tatler). Button's Coffee House in Russell Street, Covent Garden, acted as an ad hoc office for the newspaper. The Gentleman's Magazine followed on the heels of The Guardian, being touted by Richard Steele as a sequel of it.
The Gentleman's Magazine was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term magazine (from the French magazine, meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. Samuel Johnson's first regular… Read More

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson .., 1725 - "1723"[sic].. Six volumes. xli,[13],[4],563, plus portrait and plate; 656; 499; 547,[1]; 599; 591,[1],36pp. Thick quarto. Contemporary calf, spines gilt extra. Rebacked at a relatively early date, with the original backstrips laid down, new labels. Most joints cracking (but cords sound), chipping to joints and spine extremities (costing part of the top section of the spine of Vol. I), corner of one blank rear free endsheet torn away, fore-corners bumped and scraped, some occasional dusting, finger-smudges or minor foxing, otherwise internally very good or somewhat better, externally moderately sound. The first edition of Pope's edited texts of Shakespeare's plays, printed by subscription in an edition of 750 sets (of which 140 sets remained unsold), and the first collected edition in quarto. The first volume includes a list of Subscribers. While the general title in the first volume is appropriately dated 1725, the titlepages of the separate volumes are… Read More