Search Results: Authors starting with M from Lyppard Books

The Hague: A la Haye: Aux depens de la Compagnie , 1782. Full leather. Very Good. Octavo; viii, 356, [ii]pp. In original full leather (a little worn with minor loss to extremities), gilt roll to borders of boards, spine divided into compartments by double gilt fillets, red gilt-lettered spine label to second compartment, very occasional unobtrusive stains; a clean early copy of this banned book complete with engraved frontispiece and three engraved plates.

London: London: printed for S. Crowder, Pater-Noster-Row, 1794. Hardcover. Very Good. New edition; 12mo; xxiv,240pp. In modern brown cloth with gilt title to spine. New endpapers, first blank with archival tissue repair and early ink ownership inscription, occasional faint spots and light paper browning but overall a clean copy of this early edition. ESTC N21820 citing just 2xUK and 4xUS institutional locations.

London: London: printed for John Bell, 1777. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good/Very Good. First edition thus, 12mo; [4];50,[2];66,[2];123,[1];79,[1];59,[1]]pp. With opening engraved frontispiece and general title page, and separate title pages, frontispieces and pagination/register for each play. In eighteenth century full leather over five raised spine bands with gilt lettered leather title and volume labels to second and third compartments respectively (binding very lightly worn), remaining spine compartments gilt, original marbled endpapers, very light unobtrusive spotting to opening and closing leaves but overall a very clean example. ESTC separately lists each volume of Bell's extensive dramatic collection; this volume (ESTC N62196) is listed at 2 UK and 6 US institutional locations.

London: London: printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1789. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition, 2 volumes; 482, [i]; 529, [i]pp. Contemporary uniform full calf (lightly worn, front boards detached), spines gilt, spine labels largely missing, very occasional feint spotting but overall a very sound example of this popular novel centred on the machinations of the evil Italian nobleman Zeluco. ESTC T123769.

London: London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808. Half leather. Very Good. Collection of separately paginated dramatic works issued as Vol. 15 of Inchbald's's British Theatre, each play with its own title page and frontispiece; 12mo, in contemporary early nineteenth century half calf (somewhat worn with minor loss to extremities, early owners ink inscription to front pastedown). Occasional spotting and paper browning but overall a very good copy.

London: London: printed for J. Nourse, at the Lamb, opposite Katherine-Street, in the Strand, 1746. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition, octavo; xvi,232pp, with full complement of 34 engravings, 33 of which are folding. In contemporary unlettered full calf (a little worn with minor loss to board corners, sometime skilfully rebacked in matching leather), five raised spine bands, internally clean with only the lightest of occasional dust staining. Muller was deputy head of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was instrumental to its transformation into a disciplined cadet academy. An attractive first edition example of his first work. Laurence Sterne possessed the text in second edition, with possible influence on Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim's obsessions with fortification in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. ESTC T176381.