THE LIFE OF MR JONATHAN WILD THE GREAT. Miscellanies. Vol. III by Fielding, Henry - 1743

London: R. Baldwin, 1787. Third Edition [stated] . Green Cloth. Good. 6 1/2" High. Frontispiece. Frontispiece, (Vii), 216; (V), 212; (V), 191. Bound In Probably Original Green Cloth Spine With Gilt Short Title And Volume Number, Over Green Cloth With An Arboreal Pattern. All Edges Of Page Block Colored Red. Well Worn But Complete And Integral, Front Hinge To Volume I Cracked, A Short Crack To Another Hinge, Boards Frayed At All Edges, Former Owner's Name Dated 1950 On Front Endpaper Of Vol I. Traces Of Very Old Paper Labels At Bases Of Spines, No Other Marks. Scarce. Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749 - 1814) Was A Prolific English Poet, Dramatist And Novelist, Writing Under The Pseudonym Of "Courtney Melmoth" As Well As Under His Own Name. He Authored Around 40 Publications Between 1770 And 1810, Some Of Which Are Still Published Today, And Is Probably Best Remembered As The Author Of Emma Corbett: Or The Miseries Of Civil War, (1780) And The Poem Sympathy (1788). Although His Reputation… Read More

London: J. Almon, 1767. First Edition 1st Printing. Half Tan Morocco. Near Fine. 6 7/8" Tall. 252 Pp, With Half Title, Lacking Preliminary Advt., With Woodcut Initial At Beginning. First Edition. Later Half Tan Morocco Over Marbled Boards, Black Morocco Title And Date Labels On Full Gilt And Gilt Tooled Spine, Hand Marbled End Papers Matching The Boards. Bookplate Of Angling Book Collector Alfred Robert Denison On Front Pastedown. Slight Usage, Near Fine.

London: John Watts. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed and splayed, some light . foxing and toning, particularly at first and last several pages, several pages stained. 1735. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Woodcut vignette of cherub and floor globe at end of Table of Songs. Pp. [8], 8, 76, [4]. Rebound in brown paper-covered boards with brown leather spine, probably contemporary with 1925 heraldic bookplate of previous owner Edward Heron-Allen. Titles stamped in gilt on spine. ESTC T13775. A lovely volume of this classic ballad opera first published in 1728 and still being staged and reinterpreted in contemporary productions. According to Wikipedia, previous owner Edward Heron-Allen was also an important British scholar, having earned the distinction of being a Fellow of the Royal, Linnean, Geological, Zoological, and Microscopical Societies, as well as being renowned for his writings on Persian studies, violin-making, and palmistry. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Joseph Johnson, 1772. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 150, 203 Pp + 1 Pp Ads At Rear. Full Calf, Probably Original, Spine Half Perished, Boards Detached, But Text Bock Clean And Square, Edges Of Text Block Colored Red Which Is Still Fairly Bright, Pages Clean, And Ready For Rebinding. Excellent Essays, Comments, Aphorisms; "Surely Time Was Not Given Us For Law-Suits!". Samuel Paterson (1728 - 1802) Was A Bookseller, Auctioneer, Cataloger, Librarian, Lecturer And Author. This Collection Is Scarce.

London: A Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1794. Sixth Edition. Complete in 2 volumes. Full leather. Complete run of the short lived literary publication, containing a total of one-hundred and one articles and essays, including "an Extraordinary Account of ROBERT BURNS, the Ayrshire Ploughman; with extracts from his Poems". Published London: A Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1794. 8vo., 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", full speckled calf with gilt tooling, leather spine labels. xxii+448; vi+443; 1pp. publisher's ads. Spine of volume 1 chipped, outer hinge splitting, wear at the tips, covers tight, bindings strong, pages clean, bright white. Near fine internally. . Hard. Very Good. 8vo.

London: J. Dodsley, 1780. Good. London: J. Dodsley, 1780. Stated second edition. pp viii + 474 with appendicesand bibliographical postscript

London: G. G. And J. Robinson, 1795. 4th Edition . Quarter Calf / Boards. Very Good. 7 " Tall. Frontispiece. Frontispiece, Viii, 390; (Ii), 356; (Ii), 386. Volume Iii Begins With Anecdotes Of The Life Of Alexander Schell, Pp 1-65, Then A New Half Title "The Life Of Baron Frederic Trenck" In The Rest Of The Volume, In Which He Refers To Continuing His Autobiography To The Year 1792, "The Present Year". This Is Apparently The Fourth And Best Edition. Original Quarter Calf Over Marbled Paper Boards, Complete With All Half-Titles And The Introductory Leaf In Volume I Which Explains The Frontispiece. Bindings Worn, Mostly On Spine, With Upper And Lower Edges Worn Away; Paper Covered Boards Once Had Calf Tips Which Are Now Lacking. Boards Worn On Edges But Most Of Paper Is Still Present. No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates. This Edition With The New Material Is Quite Scarce, Worldcat Reporting Only Three Institutional Copies. Friedrich Freiherr Von Der Trenck (1726 -1794) Was A… Read More

London: Printed By J. Dodsley. Good; Outer joints cracked, front boards nearly detached, musty, foxing.. 1792. Leather. Bound in marbled calf with gilt ruled borders on front and rear boards and gilt-tooled spine with leather label. Marbled endpapers. Two engravings, portraits of Tasso and Hoole. xix, 326 pp + [14] pp index. Hoole's English translation of this epic poem written by the 16th century Italian poet, worked on while Hoole was supposed to be studying law. Front pastedown bears bookseller label and two previous owner bookplates, including that of Philip Hone, Federalist Mayor of New York from 1825-1826 and one of the founders of the New York Mercantile Library (rechristened the Center for Fiction in 2005). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London, 1715 Book. Good. Disbound. xii, 164 pages. ESTC N21236. In old full leather with replacement spine - the front board though is now detached. Owner's name of Mariamne Cockburne to the centre of the title page. Spotted and browned throughout, soiled in places..

London, 1793 Book. Good. Disbound. xv, [i], 200 pages. ESTC T163121 with just 4 UK and 2 US locations. In the remains of the old full leather binding - front board detached, lettering label lost from spine and spine splitting also. Leather very worn. A few pages stained. Modern bookplate to the front pastedown of Charles Hughes. Needs rebinding..