Author: Dr John Doran
Title: The Works of Dr John Doran
Description: London, Richard Bentley; Hurst and Blackett; John C. Nimmo; Chatto and Windus , 1854-1888. Leather. An impressive set of works from prolific English editor and miscellaneous writer, John Doran, comprising multiple first and second editions. An attractive set of twenty-five volumes, containing the broad range of works from Dr John Doran. Titles consist mainly of either first or second editions, with one being a fourth edition, making it a fantastic selection to hold from one of the most prolific essayists and critics of the nineteenth century. Comprising of histories, philosophical and social commentaries, ballads and other miscellaneous writings. 'Salad for the Social' is written by Frederick Saunders, an English-born American librarian. However it is included in this set due to its quoting and reference to Doran's work, 'Table Traits&apos. Uniformly bound in half crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf. Adorned with a frontispiece to 'Monarchs' (2vol), 'New Pictures', 'The Princes of Wales' and 'Annals of the English Stage&apos.'Bentley Ballads' has an engraved title page. Titles without edition remarks are true first editions. Table Traits with Something on Them (1854) - Second edition. Habits and Men with Remnants of Record Touching the Makers of Both (1855) - Second edition. Knights and Their Days (1856)Salad for the Social (1856) Monarchs Retired from Business (1857) in Two Volumes The Bentley Ballads: A Selection of the Choice Ballads, Songs, &c. Contributed to "Bentley's Miscellany" (1858) The History of Court Fools (1858)New Pictures and Old Panels (1859) The Book of the Princes of Wales, Heirs to the Crown of England (1860)Saints and Sinners; or, in Church and About it (1868) in Two Volumes. A Lady of the Last Century (Mrs Elizabeth Montagu): Illustrated in her Unpublished Letters; Collected and Arranged, with a Biographical Sketch, and a Chapter on Blue Stockings (1873) - Second edition. Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover (1975) in Two Volumes - Fourth edition. 'Mann' and Manners at the Court of Florence 1740-1786: Founded on the Letters of Horace Mann to Horace Walpole (1876) in Two Volumes.'London in the Jacobite Times' (1877) in Two Volumes. 'Memories of Our Great Towns with Anecdotic Gleanings Concerning their Worthies and their Oddities [1860-1877] (1878) In and About Drury Lane and Other Papers: Reprinted from the Pages of the 'Temple Bar' Magazine (1881) in Two Volumes. Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean (1888) in Three Volumes. Uniformly bound in signed half crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf. Externally, very smart. With occasional instances of damp staining concentrated to the board edges. Most notably to 'Monarchs I', 'Drury Lane' both vols, and 'English Stage' vol III. Internally, generally firmly bound. With either a frontispiece or half title detached, but present to 'Monarchs I', 'Knights', 'Bentley Ballads', and 'New Pictures&apos. Pages are generally bright and clean, with age toning to the endpapers and occasional spots. With heavier scattered spotting to the first and last few leaves. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: John Doran History Table Traits Leather Binding History Dr Doran Not Stated


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