The Works of the English Poets with Prefaces Bographical and Critical by Samuel Johnson. Volume the Seventy Fifth. General Index to the English Poets by Johnson, Samuel - 1790

J. Heath & G. Kearsley, 1802. Hardcover. Good. 1802. No edition remarks. 299 pages. Half bound brown leather with marbled paper covered boards and text block edges. Volume 4. Gilt lettering and decorations to the spine. Black and white illustrated plates. Ownership plate to pastedown. Annotations to a couple of the pages, with other pencil marks first few pages. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing in certain places. Heavy thumb marking present.Plates are bright and clear, with some light tanning and foxing to the edges. Cracking to guttering between pages 130-1 but binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy tanning to top text block. Lettering remain clear and bright. A couple of scuffs to the leather spine and edges peeling. Water marks to the leather board.

Charles Whittingham, for John Sharpe, 1806. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1806. No Edition Stated. 152 pages. Brown tree calf with gilt titles to spine. Vol VII. With illustrated frontispiece. Note: a heavily damaged book with loose front board. Pages are rather marked with pronounced tanning and foxing, plus thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. A few dog-eared corners. Heavy water staining to first few pages. Intense cracking to hinges. Boards have heavy edge wear, with bumping and fraying to corners and almost total loss of edge tooling. Spine ends are crushed and frayed. Joints worn too. Large loss of spine leather with visible gatherings and possible fire damage. Front board almost detached. Scratched, rubbed and marked overall.

Forgotten Books, 2018. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Hardcover volume one only 1810 printing. Front cover separated from binding. The binding suffers moderate loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

R. Hett. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. In polypropylene bag. (poetry, poems, literature) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

George Clark and Son, 1847. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Textblock only, could be re-bound by an expert. Occasional foxing. Scarce in any condition.

London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 'A New Edition, Corrected'. Could have been a library book (signs of ripped out ticket holder and plate on front end papers, but no other signs). In very good olive green cloth boards, gilt titles to back strip. The covers are very clean, tight and straight and are not the original. Clean off-white replacement end papers. Tanned cut edges. The text block is original from publisher; a little worn; tightly bound; some pages slightly wrinkled; sporadic foxing. Very good condition. No annotations or dedications. Without jacket.

London Johnson 1810, 1810. Paperback. Fair. Poor HB 4to cracked front hinge & spine papered over

J. Nichols & Son ; F. & C. Rivington ; Otridge & Son, 1810. Leather Binding. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Volume 11 only, the third of three volumes of Johnson's 'Lives of the English Poets'. Full brown period speckled calf, spine with contasting red and black morocco label (some rubbing; boards detached but present; text foxed). PROVENANCE: Engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Corney.

Forgotten Books, 2018-11-23. Paperback. New. 2.0051 in x 22.8934 in x 15.1777 in.

Nichols & Son, 1810. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Fair ; No jacket. 1810 Nichols & Son. Volume 1 of 3 only. "A New Edition, Corrected." Hardcover is full bound in brown leather, with blind-stamped borders on covers and milled edges. The spine has five raised bands, gold lettering on two panels and gold designs on three panels. Black & white frontispiece. 460 pages. Spine title: JOHNSON'S LIVES OF THE POETS. VOL. 1. Printed by John Nichols and Son, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London NOT ex-library. Hinges NOT cracked. Binding itself is intact. The leather spine covering is cracked along the edge and across in places, and missing some of the top corner; there is a small piece of clear adhesive tape on the front edge of the bottom panel. Leather covering is worn, with tips exposed. Endpapers foxed, but not the pages. Name in ink on title page and another on the front free endpaper. Two pages are missing tip of top corner. One page has a half-inch tear at the fore-edge margin. Pages lightly and… Read More