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London: Millar Tonson Cooper, 1778. Hardcover. Poor. 8vo. loss to leather top spine joints worn, boaredscdetached

Paperback. New.

J and R Tonson; H Woodfall; W Strahan; R Baldwin; J Richardson;T Caslon; T Longman; B Law; T Field and T Pote, London, 1762. Early Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Small volume with full leather binding, banded spine with black and red spine-labels and ornate gilt decoration, simple gilt lining on covers. Frontis plate plus six additional engraved plates, decorated headers, footers and capitals. Corners and spine-ends are lightly worn, early previous owners' names at the front on darkened end-papers, upper strip of title-page is missing, sound binding, pages and plates are a little darkened with some smudges. [2], [6], 260, [2]. One volume of the 2-volume set. Contains black and white plates (full page illustrations). No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 05323091025. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardcover. Good. Printed for J and R Tonson (and others), London, 1762; volume I only of two; 12mo, 105 x 170mm; pp [iii], 260; half roan, cloth sides, spine gilt; corners and spine rubbed, some foxing, generally light but with some browning here and there throughout; engraved frontispiece and seven full page engraved plates by Foudrinier or Isaac Taylor after L du Guernier and others, and with decorative woodcut vignettes to various sections. ... ... ... This volume has the following items: "Rural Sports, a Georgic", "The Fan, a Poem", "The Shepherd's Week", "Trivia", and "The What d'ye call it". ... ... ... ESTC T13903

H Lintot; J and R Tonson and S Draper, London, 1745. Early revised edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Small leather-bound volume with banded spine and a gilt "2", simple gilt lining on covers, sound binding, decorative heaters, footers and capitals. Black and white engraved plate at the start of "Dione A Personal Tragedy". Pages are a little darkened with some smudges. Previous owners' names on end-papers. [6], 260, [2]. One volume of the 2-volume set. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 05323091026. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

London: J. and R. Tonson, et al., 1767. Hardcover. Good. 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary calf, good set, no spine labels, some wear and rubbing to leather, front joint of the first volume neatly strengthened, the first volume with several plates by De Guernier engraved by Isaac Taylor.

London. Printed for J. and R. Tonson. 1767. Hardcover. 16mo. 16.5cm, in 2 volumes, 260(inc the index and preface starting at p195) & 272pp., with copper engraved frontis and 8 attractive engraved plates, chapter devices, bound in later nineteenth century full calf, blind ruled raised bands, blind ruled borders on the boards in a division for quarter bound style, gilt spine titles, head bands on both volumes chipped otherwise a very good attractive set (lgc).

London: Jacob Tonson & Bernard Lintot. Good. 1720. Hardcover. Spine backstrip is missing much of its surface. Lettering "Gay's Poems" is present. Covers have slight bumping to the outer corners (touches the pages minimally) and light rubbing to the spine edges. ; Volume One, only. Full leather covers. Bookplate of William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland, on the front endpaper. .

Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis. Poor with no dust jacket. 1757. Hardcover. Volume One only. 192 pages. Full leather binding. Page dimensions: 153 x 96mm. Most of leather spine is missing. Remaining piece of leather spine is very worn and dry and deteriorated. Boards worn with loss of leather. Hinges broken. Text block in good condition. Owner's signature "E Davie" on title page, and later signature of "Sewall Emerson" on front endpaper. Together with a poor incomplete and disbound copy of the second volume, which is lacking the rear board, all preliminary leaves except the contents leaf, and all pages after page 186. ; 8vo .

Dublin: George Risk, 1752. Third Dublin edition. Very small chips to edges; endsheets offset from binder's glue' covers rubbed, spine flaking a bit.. 12mo, 291 [1]pp, with misnumbered pages; contemporary calf, raised bands, leather spine label.

Glasgow, UK: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1770. Leather Bound. Good+. 32mo 4 - 5'' tall. Leather Bound. Condition: Good+. Robert and Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, UK 1770. 192 pages. Moderate general wear. Browning on pages. Size: 32mo 4 - 5'' tall. Poetry::Before 1900 6263 6263

London: Printed For J. Tonson, B. Linton And S. Draper. Used - Good. . Published 1745. Leather with gilt stamped lettering on spines. Duodecimo. Two volume set. 260 pp, 260 pp. Some shelf wear and rubbing to boards, with significant pock-marks to front & rear boards. Bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Heavy foxing and toning to pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Altogether a complete set in Good condition. (Subject: Poetry.)

London: W. Strahan, J. And F. Rivington, L. Davis, R. Horsfield, et al. Good with no dust jacket. 1772. 1st Thus. Hardcover. 260 pp + 272 pp. Frontis plates in both volumes. With the signature of George Weare Brakenridge (1775-1856), the noted English antiquarian, on the first fly of each volume. These are the first two volumes of the four volume set and contain Gay's poems, not his plays or fables (we particularly enjoyed the "To A Young Lady,With Some Lampreys". Gay was especially noted for the Beggar's Opera. In what appears to be full period leather, boards detached and rubbed at edges, spines have five raised bands, spine covers worn, red spine labels, label on Vol I partly chipped away. Interior have Brakenridge's signature on both first flies, end pages foxed, another contemporary signature on each title page, some light foxing throughout but otherwise clean and nice. Books have the aroma of old pipes. Scarce and unusual set, especially nice with the… Read More

London Printed For J. Tonson And, 1762-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1767 two voluime set printed for messrs Tonson; woodfall;strathan; baldwin; caslon; longman; law; pote; johnson; davenport and cadel (MDCCLXVII) on worn rubbed calf leather missng burgundy title plates to spine

London: A. Millar [et al.], 1778. 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. x, [11]-233; 228; engraved portrait frontispiece in Vol. I (offsetting on title page); later half calf over cloth (a few soil spots), red gilt morocco spine labels, t.e.g.; leather a bit scuffed along the edges, else very good and sound. A false imprint (ESTC). ESTC T13911.

London: J and R Tonson, 1767. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in full calf with gilt spine in compartments, red morocco spine label. Modest wear, spine slightly dry. An attractive pair - slight foxing, generally clean internally, one plate with a short tear. Illustrated with plates. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 041441.

Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1762-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. . 2-volume set. Leather covers, detached boards, missing the top board of volume 1. Pages are lightly tanned.

London: W. Strahan, R. Horsfield [et al.], 1775. 2 vols., 12mo, pp. [4], 260; [4], 272; engraved frontispiece in vol. I, 8 other engraved plates; tear in corner of F3 in vol. I causing loss of several letters, clean tear in K1 of vol. II not affecting letterpress but with small piece missing from the margin, bottom of spine of vol. I insignificantly chipped and with a short vertical crak to the leather; all else very good in contemporary if not original full calf, red and black morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines. NCBEL III, 497.