[AIKIN (John) & BARBAULD (Anna Laetitia, Aikin)]

Evenings at Home; or, the Juvenile Budget Opened. Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces, for the Intruction and Amusement of Young Persons.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1794-98. Second edition, 6 vols., in two, 12mo (140 x 85 mm), iv, 152; iv, 152; iv, 161, [1]; [2], 156; iv, 151, [1]; iv, 152pp., upper margin closely shaved touching several page numbers and running titles, near cont. half calf, rubbed, spine of vol. II peeling, leather spine labels a little chipped. "Maria Edgeworth praised this collection of stories, poems, and dialogues designed to provide entertainment for thirty evenings."—Osborne. Vols. 1-4 are dated 1794, vol. 5 & 6 dated 1796. Osborne Collection I, p.230.

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Book number: 38228

Keywords: JUVENILE CHILDREN'S BOOKS POETRY FICTION

[AIKIN (John) & BARBAULD (Anna Laetitia, Aikin)]

Evenings at Home; or, the Juvenile Budget Opened. Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces, for the Intruction and Amusement of Young Persons.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1792-1808. 6 Vols., 1-4 & 6 are first editions, vol. 5 fourth edition (1808), 12mo (151 x 92 mm), iv, 152; iv, 152; iv, 161, [1]; iv, 156; iv, 151, [1]; iv, 152pp., vols., 1-4 & 6 in contemporary vellum backed marbled boards, spine of vol. 1 split, vol. 5 in contemporary full calf, endpapers browned from turn-ins. "Maria Edgeworth praised this collection of stories, poems, and dialogues designed to provide entertainment for thirty evenings."—Osborne. Osborne Collection I, p.230.

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Book number: 40940

Keywords: JUVENILE CHILDREN'S BOOKS POETRY FICTION

[Aikin, John].

The Woodland Companion: or a brief description of British Trees. With some account of their uses. Illustrated by plates. Compiled by the author of evenings at home.

London: printed for J Johnson by Taylor & Wilks, 1802. [iv], 92 pp, 28 double page copper engraved plates. Contemporary 1/2 calf with maroon calf gilt spine label, marbled boards, speckled leaf edges. 20 cm x 12 cm. Wear with loss to spine foot, repair to spine head, front joint cracked, minor loss to corners, chipping to board edges, contents lightly age browned.

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Book number: 32626

AIKIN, JOHN

Annals of the Reign of George III. Volume Two.

The Mill, Nonsuch. 2006. Original publisher's paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: 480pp. references. Very fine copy - as new. 9781845880200

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Book number: 164458

Keywords: 9781845880200

John Aikin

Annals of the Reign of King George the Third; from Its Commencement to the Year 1760, to the General Peace in the Year 1815

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. First edition. Leather. A complete two volume set of Annals of the Reign of King George the Third, bound in leather. A complete two-volume set. First edition copies. These volumes contain Annals of the Reign of King George the Third; from its Commencement to the Year 1760, to the General Peace in the Year 1815. George the Third was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 until his death in 1820. His reign was marked by a series of military conflicts involving his Kingdoms and much of the rest of Europe which are recorded within these volumes. In full diced calf. Externally, very smart some creasing to the joints and light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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Book number: 853B32

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: Annals of the Reign of King George the Third; from its Commencement to the Year 1760, to the General Peace in the Year 1815 King George III history British history King George III None

AIKIN, JOHN

Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain from the Revival of Literature to the Time of Harvey

London: Joseph Johnson, 1780. First Edition. Quarter leather marbled board cover. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). xii, 338pp + index. Bound by Maltby, Oxford.. G : in Good condition. Rebound with new eps. Minor rubbing to spine. Light scattered foxing. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library .

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Book number: e4677a

Catalogue: Medicine

Keywords: Medicine Biography 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian

John Aikin

England Described Being a Concise Delineation of Every County in England and Wales; with an Account of Its Most Important Products; Notices of the Principal Seats; and a View of Transactions CIVIL and Military, &C.

London, Baldwin, Cradock And Joy, 1818. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Handsomely presented copy, rebound in half brown goatskin leather with marbled paper-covered boards. Gilt titling to spine. New endpapers. Attractive fold-out coloured map in VG order. Some offsetting from this to title page but otherwise, bar occasional foxing, all is in VG, clean and bright order. 8vo. vi, 499pp + index . Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 102409

Catalogue: Antiquarian

John Aikin

England Described: Being a Concise Delineation of Every County in England and Wales; with an Account of Its Most Important Products; Notices of the Principal Seats; and a View of Transactions CIVIL and Military &C.

London, Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818. Leather. A concise account of England and Wales by John Aikin illustrated with a large folding map in colour. Originally published as 'England Delineated' in 1788; this edition first thus under new title. Containing concise accounts of each county in England and Wales from Bedfordshire to Radnorshire with notes of their products, principal seats, civil and military transactions, and more. Written by John Aikin, English medical doctor and surgeon who later devoted himself to biography and periodicals. Rebound in half morocco, bound without half title and advertisements. Index to rear. Folding map in colour to frontispiece with no marginal tears. Rebound in half straight up grain morocco binding over patterned boards, renewed endpapers. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, back strip lightly rubbed. Francis Hubert Barclay's bookplate to front pastedown, Christopher T. Perowne ex libris bookplate to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Odd light spotting scattered to odd leaf, particularly to frontispiece and first and last few. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 840A90

Catalogue: British Topography

Keywords: england travel guide folding maps travel None

John Aikin

An Essay on the Application of Natural History to Poetry

Warrington; London, W. Eyres for J. Johnson, 1777. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce study on poetry and what the genre could learn from science, by John Aikin. The first edition.A very scarce work.An essay exploring the question of how science could invigorate the genre of poetry, which the author bemoans as becoming insipid and repetitive. The author believed that poetry could learn a lot from the sciences, in particular the study of nature.By John Aikin, a doctor and surgeon, practicing in various places including London and Great Yarmouth. After retiring from medicine in 1798 he pursued and succeeded in literary pursuits. His best known work is his ten volumes 'General Biography&apos. Through one of his sons he was the grandfather of the author Anna Letitia le Breton, who wrote poetry, essays, and children's books.Bookplate of J. O. Edwards to the front paste down, and to the verso of the front endpaper. Prize inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, generally smart, with loss to the head of the spine and spine label. Some discolouration to the spine and extremities. Light rubbing to the boards. Small tears to the head of the joints. Front hinge is a little strained but remains firm, rear hinge is starting. Bookplate and bookseller's label to the front paste down, bookplate to the verso of the front endpaper. Prize inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with scattered spots. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Book number: 957P41

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: An Essay on the Application of Natural History to Poetry poetry natural history literary criticism poetry None

[AIKIN (John)]:

Essays on Song-Writing: With a Collection of such English Songs as a most eminent for Poetical Merit. To which are added, Some Original Pieces.

London: Printed for Joseph Johnson...[no date], [1772]. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 186 x 113 mms., pp. xvi, 280, contemporary tree calf, gilt border on covers, rebacked, new red morocco label; large triangular piece cut from title-page with loss, facsimile of title-page tipped in. This work is usually attributed to John Aikin (1747 - 1822), a physician and author of various political and biographical works. The genesis of this book came, Aikin says in his Preface, when he and various friends lamented the absence of a good collection of the excellent songs in which song-writing was taken seriously as an art form: "The chief sources of good songs, are the miscellany poems and plays from the time of Charles the second to the conclusion of Queen Ann's reign." He was working in London in 1769-70 and moved to Warrington in 1771, and he might have made the acquaintance of the radical publisher, Johnson, during his brief sojourn in London. His political leanings were liberal, and Johnson published his An Address to the Dissidents of England on their Late Defeat (1790).

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Book number: 7249

Catalogue: Song

Keywords: song music literature

AIKIN (John):

Essays on Song-Writing: With a Collection of such English Songs as a most Eminent for Poetical Merit. The Second Edition, with Additions and Corrections.

Warrington: Printed by William Eyres, for Joseph Johnson..., 1774. 8vo, 184 x 198 mms., pp. xix [xx blank], 286, contemporary calf, small gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt to a floral motif, red leather label; binding darkened and a bit rubbed, top and base of spine chipped, slight cracking of upper and lower joints, corners a bit worn. This work is usually attributed to John Aikin (1747 - 1822), a physician and author of various political and biographical works. The genesis of this book came, Aikin says in his Preface, when he and various friends lamented the absence of a good collection of the excellent songs in which song-writing was taken seriously as an art form: "The chief sources of good songs, are the miscellany poems and plays from the time of Charles the second to the conclusion of Queen Ann's reign." He was working in London in 1769-70 and moved to Warrington in 1771, and he might have made the acquaintance of the radical publisher, Johnson, during his brief sojourn in London. His political leanings were liberal, and Johnson published his An Address to the Dissidents of England on their Late Defeat (1790). The 1772 first edition was reviewed in at least four journals in the same year, and the author of the notice in The Critical Review was enthusiastic: "The whole discovers the author to be possessed of a large share of critical knowledge and good taste.... The songs in this collection cannot fail of affording pleasure to those readers who have a taste for the beauties of poetical composition; and the ingenious observations in the Essays add greatly to the value of the work.l"

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Book number: 9741

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: music song literature

AIKIN. JOHN.; EVANS. R. H. SUPPLEMENTS.

ESSAYS ON SONG WRITING. With a collection of such English Songs as are most eminent for poetical merit. A new edition with additions and corrections and a supplement.

R. H. Evans. London.,1810. New edition, The first Evans edition. 8vo.(7.7 x5.2 inches).xxviii,352pp. A very good copy in early half tan calf, spine with raised bands, each decorated with gilt floral role. Compartments ruled and decorated in gilt. Black label, gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Marbled endpapers. Previous owners bookplate on front paste down. All edges marbled. A very good copy in a fine nineteenth century binding.:

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Book number: 6532

AIKIN. JOHN. ; EVANS. R. H. SUPPLEMENTS.

ESSAYS ON SONG WRITING. With a collection of such English Songs as are most eminent for poetical merit.A new edition with additions and corrections and a supplement.

R. H. Evans. London. 1810. NEW EDITION. The first Evans edition. 8vo. (7.6 x 5 inches). xxviii,352pp. A fine clean copy in attractive mid twentieth century leather binding, by T. F. Ford, of full brown calf. Spine decorated with gilt bands and piping and floral centre pieces in the compartments. Black label, gilt. Both boards with decorative border design in gilt and small black labels within a decorative design, lettered "T. F. F. 1943". Inner dentelles in gilt. Plain magnolia endpapers. Top edge gilt. A small neat ink note inside the rear cover states that the book was 'rebound by T F Ford 1943' and a neat five line inscription on the front free end-paper shows that the book was bound by Thomas F Ford, Architect and presented by his sons to Canon L B Tirrell on his retirement in November 1971. ---- 'Thomas Francis Ford. FRIBA (9 May 1891 – 11 January 1971) was a prolific ecclesiastical architect, Diocesan Architect for Southwark, an Ashpitel Prize winner at the Royal Institute of British Architects, founder of Thomas Ford Architects... Ford's hobby was book-binding, at which he excelled, including the intricate gold tooling'. Wikipedia.

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Book number: 9969

AIKIN, John.

Essays on song-writing. With a collection of such English songs as are most eminent for poetical merit.

Warrington: printed by William Eyres, 1774 2nd edition. 8vo. xix[i], 286 pp. Recent rebind grey paper boards, paper label. Title page and eps age-browned, especially edges; small closed tear to spine tail.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 40736

[John Aikin]

Essays on Song-Writing

Warrington; London, William Eyres; Joseph Johnson, 1774. Leather. The second edition of John Aikin's examination on the history of English songwriting. The second edition.John Aikin's insightful study on songwriting, and the development of the tradition of English songs from the earliest traces from ancient history to the eighteenth century. This volume offers a scholarly examination of songs, and pastoral poetry.The author has included examples of a wealth of English songs, by poets such as John Gay, Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, John Dryden, L. M. W. Montague, and more.Aikin was a doctor who, once he retired from medicine, turned his attention to literature.Bookplate of J. O. Edwards to the front paste down. In a full rebacked calf binding, with renewed endpapers. Externally, generally smart, with light rubbing to the boards and spine. Bumping to the extremities, resulting in a small amount of loss. Minor marks to the leather. Hinges are repaired. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Book number: 931P32

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Essays on Song-Writing songs poetry john aikin songs None