[ADDISON, Joseph]

The Spectator, Numb. LX

(London), (Sam. Buckley), 9 May 1711. First Edition. Wraps. Single sheet (7-1/2" x 12") printed on both sides. An original issue of this daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England, lasting from 1711 to 1712. Near Fine .

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N° du livre: 021442

Catalogue: 18th Century Literature

Mots-clés: Essays, Joseph Addison, 18th Century Literature, Early Newspapers, Periodicals Early Newspapers 18th Century Literature Literature: English Periodicals

DEFOE, Daniel

The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Hardcover. Two volumes in publisher's cloth-backed boards with illustrations by Thomas Stothard. Designed by Bruce Rogers. This edition (Haas 80) is a reprint of the Riverside Press Large-Paper Edition (Warde 89) in 4 volumes published the same year. Ill.: Thomas Stothard. Some soiling and wear to covers, still quite good .

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N° du livre: 003403

Catalogue: 18th Century British Literature

Mots-clés: Thomas Stothard, Bruce Rogers, Illustrated Books Thomas Stothard Literature: English Imaginary Travel Bruce Rogers Illustrated Books

DWIGHT, Timothy

Greenfield Hill: A Poem in Seven Parts

New York, Childs and Swaine, 1794. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary sheep; 53, [4], 66-183, [1] pages [as issued]. BAL 5048; Church Catalog 1262: "In this pastoral poem is introduced a vivid description of the burning of Fairfield by the British, in 1779"; Evans 26925. The poem is dedicated to Vice-President John Adams. Occasional minor stain or foxing, but quite clean in a Very Good contemporary binding, a little rubbed on the spine with a very short split at the top joint, covers tight. Overall a Near Fine survival .

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N° du livre: 019595

Catalogue: 18th Century American Literature

Mots-clés: American Imprints, Poetry, 18th Century American Literature American Imprints Poetry Literature: American 18th Century American Literature

FIELDING, Henry

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling in a Charles Lewis Binding

London, A. Millar, 1749. Second Edition. Hardcover. Six volumes bound in early full paneled calf leather with gilt-decorated boards and elaborately gilt-decorated spines with contrasting morocco spine labels: lxiii, [i], 214; [2] 324; [2] 370; [2] 312; [2] 294; [2] 304 pages. Binding with the small leather label on the front pastedown of Charles Lewis, one of the best bookbinders of the early 19th century and employer of Francis Bedford, who took over Lewis's shop after his death. Considered to be the first true novel in English. Second edition, printed from reset type of the first edition, correcting a number of minor mistakes. Cross III, pages 316-317. Often mistakenly referred to as the second issue of the first edition. Probably printed on 13 April 1749, the first edition having been printed only about a month prior, with the errata corrected and the table of contents for all six volumes preceding the text in the first volume. Both editions were in circulation on the date of publication. Light, scattered foxing. Rubbing to joints, covers firm. Near Fine in a handsome Charles Lewis binding Cross describes the need for this edition so soon after the first: "Immediate revision was rendered imperative on account of the numerous errors that crept into the text owing to the haste with which the novel had been at last put through the press.. Type and paper are the same and the paging is kept uniform with the edition having the errata.. The table of contents is re-spaced so as to extend into the page formerly given to the errata.. Scores of individual pages differ either in the number of lines or in the last words and phrases.

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N° du livre: 017300

Catalogue: 18th Century British Literature

Mots-clés: First Book, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Classics, 18th Century Literature High Spots Classics Literature: English Movie Fiction

FIELDING, Henry

Tom Jones, the History of a Foundling

New York, Heritage Press, (1952). Cloth-backed marbled boards. Large Octavo. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Color plates. Ill.: T. M. Cleland. Fine in slipcase .

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N° du livre: 007172

Catalogue: 18th Century British Literature

Mots-clés: T. M. Cleland Fiction Illustrated Books Color Plates Literature: English

GAY, John

Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London

London, Bernard Lintott, [1716]. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5-1/2" x 8-3/4") bound in full polished calf with gilt-ruled borders and gilt dentelles by F. Bedford. One of only 250 copies of the Large Paper Issue with the engraved headpiece and ornaments. Gay's best remembered poem and thought by many to be the greatest poem written on life in London in English literature. This copy has a most distinguished provenance with the bookplates of Helen Hay Whitney on the front free endpaper and those of Henry & Elizabeth Mary Collins and Robert Hoe on the front pastedown. On the front blank are several neat older notes establishing an earlier provenance including "Heber's 4th sale 1834. No. 889" and "From Dr. Bliss's Sale. 3 July 1858." In a very small hand might be a reference to the 1803 sale of the John Woodhouse library. Clean copy recently and sympathetically rebacked with gilt decorations and the original burgundy gilt-lettered morocco spine label. A lovely copy with a distinguished provenance .

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N° du livre: 012398

Catalogue: 18th Century Literature

Mots-clés: Walking, Poetry, Fine Binding, John Gay, 18th Century Literature, Fine Bindings, London Fine Bindings Poetry Literature: English London

GODWIN, William

The Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First Edition. Hardcover. Attractively bound with good margins in modern calf-backed boards; xii, 481 pages. An important work by this philosopher published the same year that his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, died shortly after giving birth to their daughter and future author of FRANKENSTEIN, Mary Shelley. He would later have some influence on his daughter's husband, Percy Shelley. Published several years after Godwin's THINGS AS THEY ARE, which some regard as the first modern novel. Godwin, "the philosophical representative of English radicalism" (DNB), also had the distinct honor of reading Thomas Paine's RIGHTS OF MAN in manuscript. Four small, discreet library stamps within text, ink number on verso of title with some bleed through; library perforated stamp to half title and title pages. Corner of one page torn with no loss of text .

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N° du livre: 003797

Catalogue: 18th Century Literature

Mots-clés: Mary Shelley, Education, Economics, Anarchism, Philosophy, 18th Century Literature, William Godwin Philosophy William Godwin Literary Criticism Literature: English

GODWIN, William

St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

Alexandria [VA], J. & J. D. Westcott for J. V. Thomas, 1801. First American Edition. Hardcover. First published in England in 1799, this First American Edition is much scarcer. Two duodecimo volumes in 4s (3-3/4" x 5-7/8") bound in contemporary calf leather with gilt rules on the spines and burgundy morocco spine labels; [4], vi, 286; [2], 269, [1] pages with the error in paging in the first volume, page 47 misnumbered 57. Shaw & Shoemaker 577. This early Gothic novel takes place during the Protestant Reformation and tells the tale of a penurious noble who finds the philosopher's stone and an elixir of immortality. It was a source for a somewhat better known novel, FRANKENSTEIN, by Godwin's daughter, Mary Shelley, who dedicated that book to her father. An early owner, Joseph H. Wingate, has written his name twice in each volume, dated 1809. There is also a faint, early ink stamp for J. W. Sewall on the front endpaper of each volume. Closed tear to first volume title page with no loss; text fairly clean. The boards of the second volume are split and holding by the cords. Overall Very Good Godwin's THINGS AS THEY ARE is regarded by some as the first modern novel. Godwin, "the philosophical representative of English radicalism" (DNB), also had the distinct honor of reading Thomas Paine's RIGHTS OF MAN in manuscript.

Charles AgventVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 017252

Catalogue: 18th Century Literature

Mots-clés: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, Supernatural Literature, 18th Century Literature, Gothic Fiction, Fantasy, American Imprints American Imprints Fantasy Gothic Fiction Literature: English