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Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition. Folio. 646, [2]pp., including the half-title leaf. Lacking both boards, much of the calf spine back is perished, with five original raised bands. The upper back corner at the head of spine is browned and frayed, with partial damage at the corner of the final letterpress leaf (printing the table), else a good, sound copy suitable for rebinding.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$599.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Half leather binding, probably 19th century, with marbled endpages. Half of spine leather missing, board edges rubbed/frayed. Bookplate to fep. Verso of ffep has inked PO info and pencilled poem. This volume starts at the title page. 646pp followed by a single leaf numbered 565 titled The Table. Foxing and age toning. Binding holding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Oversized hardcover folio. This is a twentienth century binding, professionally and beautifully done, with brown calf leather spine and maroon title label (which might be original to an earlier binding). Marbled paper over boards. Sturdy appropriate new endpapers. First page present is the title page, dated 1700. There is a dark stain on the title page that bleeds through to the next couple pages before fading away. 646 pages plus single leaf with index numbered 565. Wide margins and clean pages, with only very minor foxing and normal toning from age. Contains sections of Ovid, Homer, Chaucer and more - considered some of Dryden's greatest translation work. Measures 8 x 12.75 inches. Please email with questions or to request photos. Extra shipping will be required, especially for international or priority shipping.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First Edition, 1700. GOOD in original binding; blind-stamped brown leather with gilt-stamped leather spine label; wear and rubbing to boards and edges; corners bumped and worn; chipping to spine ends (but headbands still present; both hinges cracked and boards loosely attached; includes original endpapers and half-title page (often lacking); book plate to ffep; some soiling to front endpaper; NO damp stains or significant foxing to pages; overall a very nice copy of this important work. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: Folio, [42], 271, 360-646, p. 565, [1] pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in full early diced calf, rebacked with spine restained, but with earlier boards and label preserved. Some chipping and shelf wear to boards. End papers and text block edges age toned. Pages slightly foxed. Two bookplates affixed to front pastedown: that of F.V.M. Madoc and that of the Urban District Council Central Public Reference Library. A purple stamp from the latter appears on the half-title page and on several pages of text. Half-title reads: Mr Dryden's fables. In verse. ESTC R31983; Wing D2278; Macdonald, H. Dryden, 37a; Pforzheimer, 326. JR Consignment. Shelved in Room G. Oversized item(s). Will require additional postage for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restriction(s). Contact seller for additional information. 1345551. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$837.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of John Dryden's collected fables. In a very smart contemporary mottled calf binding. These translations are regarded as one of Dryden's greatest works. This was the final work produced by Dryden, as he died two months later. The work contains translations of the First Book of Homer's 'Iliad', eight selections from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', three of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', three stories from Boccaccio and many more translations including original poems by Dryden himself. With this work Dryden aimed to increase the reputation of English literature, by adapting these classic works. All the translations to this work are in Dryden's heroic couplet. With the bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort to the front pastedown with his family arms. Possibly the bookplate of the Taylour Family, either Thomas Taylour the 1st Marquess Headford or Thomas Taylour 2nd Marquess of Headfort. Complete with the Half-Title which reads 'Mr Dryden's Fables'. ESTC reference number R31983. With the signatures: A-C2, *A-*D2, chi1, A4, a2, B4-4B4, 4C2, 4D4-4N4, 4O1, 2chi1 Collated, complete. John Dryden was a popular seventeenth century English poet and literary critic. His talents in Restoration England landed him the position of England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. A lovely, first edition copy of this important work. In a contemporary mottled calf binding. Externally, generally smart with light rubbing to the joints and to the extremities. Fading to the gilt at the spine. A few small worm holes to the rear board, with the leather lifting slightly at the bottom of the joint. Leather is lifting to the head of the front joint. Bookplate to the front pastedown, Marquess of Headfort. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright. Small closed tears to the edge of the half-title. Occasional scattered spots to pages. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Folio, [xlii], 646pp; later three-quarter calf and marbled boards. A nice copy of Dryden's Fables, with a distinguished provenance. Macdonald 37a. Light staining to final leaves; scattered soil; front free endpaper loose; covers rubbed, particularly to edges, tips, and hinges; three neat bookplates, including Edward Whittaker Hennell and Edgar F. Leo.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
John Drydan. Fables Ancient and Modern Translated Into Verse. Jacob Tonson, London, 1700.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Jacob Tonson, 1700. Hardcover. Condition: Near fine in period full blind tooled rich paneled calf neatly rebacked with a fresh morocco label by Alan Grace of Surrey UK. Listed in Wing, this is the 1st edition, complete with the half title and with the armorial engraved book plate of Sir. L.A. Burd with the motto: Summa Peto. First Edition. 1700. near fine in contemporary binding; blind-stamped, the only flaw was an early owner initials on title page, crossed, and an old light tidal mark on a few rear leaves, else a very pretty tight copy in a superb reback restoration with raised band from Surrey UK. overall a very nice copy of this important work. This may be the best available copy of a rare book. extra for shipping. full title being: Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with Original Poems Dryden, Mr. (John)
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1344.00 + shipping
Description: Folio, pp. [648.] A nice clean tall copy with the half-title; with some minor foxing. Bound in contemporary calf (chipped, front cover separate), Bookplate. Macdonald 37a. NCBEL II 447. Pforzheimer 326. Wing D2278. A collection of some twelve thousand verses, which "again show Dryden's energy of thought and language undiminished by age" (DNB), including paraphrases or translations of the first book of the âIliad', some of Ovid's âMetamorphoses', and tales from Chaucer and Boccaccio. There is also a poem âTo my Honoured Kinsman John Driden', verses addressed to the Duchess of Ormond, and lines on âA Fair Maiden lady who died at Bath' [the wife of Lord Abingdon]. The preface, written in fine prose, contains an excellent appreciation of Chaucer as well as attacks on Milbourne and Sir Richard Blackmore, and a reply to Jeremy Collier's attack on the stage.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this collection of fables with nearly 12,000 verses translated or paraphrased from various including Homer, Chaucer and Ovid. Quarto, bound in contemporary calf Cambridge binding, tooled and lettered in gilt on spine, raised bands. In very good condition. One of the most prolific and versatile writers in literary history, John Dryden excelled as a poet, a playwright, a critic, and a translator. According to Dr. Johnson, "Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism," and Pope saw in Dryden's work "better specimens of every mode of poetry than any other English writer" (Allibone, 524).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.