Search Results: Authors starting with V from Lyppard Books

London: London: printed for John Bell, 1777. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good/Very Good. First edition thus, 12mo; [4];77,[3];63,[1];77,[3];85,[1],2;67,[5]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 (slightly worn, spine labels missing from second and third compartments), 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 N62148) is listed at 4 UK and 3 US locations.

London: London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808. Half leather. Very Good. Collection of separately paginated dramatic works issued as Vol. 9 of Inchbald's's British Theatre, each play with its own title page and frontispiece; 12mo, in contemporary early nineteenth century half calf (somwhat worn with minor loss to extremities, early owners ink inscription to front pastedown). Occasional spotting and paper browning but overall a very good copy.

Basel: Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1555. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition thus (the first to include coverage of the reign of Henry VIII to 1538); folio; [2], 691, [39]pp. In mid-sixteenth century blind-panelled calf with blind arabesque to centre of each board (professionally respined and with corners repaired). Title with woodcut printer's device and early manuscript annotations and markings (title repaired, re-attached at gutter, with light creasing and soiling), decorative woodcut initials and borders to leaves a2 and a3, woodcut printer's device to reverse of final leaf, early marginal annotations and underlinings throughout volume, first few leaves lightly frayed to margins, small closed tear at foot of leaf H6, occasional unobtrusive damp stains to margins of a few leaves. First published in 1534, Polydore Vergil's history was a source for chroniclers Edward Hall and Raphael Holinshed, consequently influencing Shakespeare's history plays, and according to more recent analysis,… Read More

Geneva: Geneva: (Cramer et Bardin), 1775. Full leather. Very Good. Octavo, volume two only; 448, [i]pp. In contemporary full speckled calf (extremities lightly worn, spine rubbed), gilt roll to board margins, spine gilt, spine labels missing, original marbled endpapers, light spotting to opening and closing leaves, closing errata leaf present, a clean complete odd volume example produced within Voltaire's lifetime of this attractive edition, with each page set within an ornamental frame.