Search Results: the works of the english poets by johnson samuel

J. Heath & G. Kearsley, 1802. Hardcover. Good. 1802. No edition remarks. 299 pages. Half bound brown leather with marbled paper covered boards and text block edges. Volume 4. Gilt lettering and decorations to the spine. Black and white illustrated plates. Ownership plate to pastedown. Annotations to a couple of the pages, with other pencil marks first few pages. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing in certain places. Heavy thumb marking present.Plates are bright and clear, with some light tanning and foxing to the edges. Cracking to guttering between pages 130-1 but binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy tanning to top text block. Lettering remain clear and bright. A couple of scuffs to the leather spine and edges peeling. Water marks to the leather board.

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.

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.

R. Hett. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. In polypropylene bag. (poetry, poems, literature) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

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

J. Nichols & Son ; F. & C. Rivington ; Otridge & Son, 1810. Leather Binding. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Volume 11 only, the third of three volumes of Johnson's 'Lives of the English Poets'. Full brown period speckled calf, spine with contasting red and black morocco label (some rubbing; boards detached but present; text foxed). PROVENANCE: Engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Corney.

London Johnson 1810, 1810. Paperback. Fair. Poor HB 4to cracked front hinge & spine papered over

Forgotten Books, 2018-11-23. Paperback. New. 2.0051 in x 22.8934 in x 15.1777 in.

Printed for Whitestone, 1779. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1779. No Edition Remarks. 536 pages. Brown leather. Volume I. Moderate creasing, foxing and tanning to pages and slight dog-eared pages throughout. Major tanning to text block edges and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front endpapers. Boards have major rubbing and edge wear. Pen inscription to front and splitting to joints. Distinctive crushing to spine ends and bumping to corners. Peeling to spine and corners.

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

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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.

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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.