Click for full-size.
RANGER'S PROGRESS consisting of a variety of poetical essays, moral, serious, comic, and satyrical
by Honest Ranger of Bedford-Row ; [possibly Arthur Murphy or John Ingledew]
- Used
- fair
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Printed for the Author. Fair. 1760. First Edition. Disbound. vi, (2), 120 pages; Sold by T. Kinnersley in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and to be had of all other Booksellers in Town and Country. OCLC 504455151 ESTC t126448 This book lacks most of the leather backstrip and the entire rear board; the front calf covered board is present, but detached. The ffep and title page are still attached to the front board; the rest of the text block are held firmly by the original stitching and remainder of the spine. Text is clean, but for a couple brief pencil notes, marking where the reader left off. Quite a scarce volume; a good cadidate for rebinding. "Most of the pieces in this entertaining miscellany originally appeared in Lloyd's Evening Post." These anonymously published essays skip from a reminiscence of the author's charming youthful infatuation with his nurse and a string of other women into adulthood, to a day at an auction house, to his arrival at Bath and an odd "exchange" of verses with one "Jack Meggot." A few years later "Honest Ranger" published a second book A Visit to the Ideal World (1763). This author who published under the psedonym "Honest Ranger" has variously been identified as Arthur Murphy or John Ingledew, but is to be distinguished from the "Honest Ranger" who published the infamous Harris’s List of the ladies of Covent Garden. .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquarian Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42569
- Title
- RANGER'S PROGRESS consisting of a variety of poetical essays, moral, serious, comic, and satyrical
- Author
- Honest Ranger of Bedford-Row ; [possibly Arthur Murphy or John Ingledew]
- Format/Binding
- Disbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed for the Author
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1760
- Size
- 16mo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Humour or Humor, Satyrical Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- 18th Century;
Terms of Sale
Antiquarian Book Shop
We are long-time professional booksellers and value our customers. We make every attempt to describe our inventory with care and package items carefully for shipping. Discretionary returns will be refunded the price of the book, exclusive of shipping expenses. We make every reasonable effort to make sure customers have a good experience purchasing from us.
About the Seller
Antiquarian Book Shop
Biblio member since 2017
Washington, District of Columbia
About Antiquarian Book Shop
At The Antiquarian Book Shop, located in Georgetown - an historic neighborhood of Washington, D.C. we have been buying, selling & appraising rare, interesting and scholarly books in Georgetown for more than 30 years. Over those many years we have taken great pleasure from satisfying our customers' eclectic literary requirements in the shop and hope to continue in that tradition now that we have moved our operation on-line.Currently, our catalogued inventory includes about 4,000 books from the sixteenth century through the twentieth century in a variety of subject areas. Our stock comprises antiquarian books, collectible books and scholarly books, as well as a selection of antique prints and ephemera.The books listed here represent only a small portion of our total inventory. We are in the process of cataloguing the extensive holdings in our warehouse (15,000+ books) and hope to flesh out these pages over the months to come. Our new format allows us to expand & update our listings frequently. We have included images of many items listed to better convey their quality and condition.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Frequently asked questions
This Book’s Categories
Collecting History of the Circus in America
Step right up! Take a look at the center ring, where you will see displayed the most amazing, most colorful series of history books that the world has ever seen! Right this way, folks…
Using and Collecting Bookmarks
Bern Marcowitz warns against paperclips and other inappropriate page-savers, and offers a bit of advice on using and collecting bookmarks.
