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Price: $245.00
Publisher: London, Charles Tilt: 1832
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: cfe15278
Condition: Very Good
Patterned Burgundy cloth boards with darker burgundy leather strip on spine with gold lettering and decorations. Gold gilt page edges all around. 12mo. Illustrations of Smollett, Fielding, and Goldsmith--in a series of 41 plates designed and engraved by George Cruikshank-famed illustrator of Dickens. Each plate is accompanied by descriptive extracts--fully explaining the subject. Cruikshank, even at the time of this publication, had his many loyal fans and collectors--of which many did not want to purchase Roscoe's complete Library of 10 volumes in order to obtain the engravings--so this book... View more info
By: Johnson, Samuel
Price: $275.00
Publisher: Dublin, Price, Walker, Whitestone et al: 1782
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: cfe15279
Condition: Very Good
First Irish edition-printed in Dublin--collection of philosophical theses of Samuel Johnson--in the manner of the maxims of Duke De la Roche-Foucault. Clean and tight--. Full black mottled calf with gilt lettering to the spine. Wear is moderate (hand rubbing) to the spine-although the lettering is very bright. 262 pp. A small bit of paper is missing on the title page--not affecting the title or important information--also written in ink on the same title page is the name "Lauren Tellen"--(see photo) Johnson's views on everything from Affectation to Youth--in Alphabetical order. On the facing p... View more info
