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Price: US$38.22 + shipping
Description: , xxvii, 68 pages, 5 engraved plates with titles, title page with engraved vignette, engraved vignette head and tailpieces, First Edition , much wear to covers with upper board detached and sections of spine missing, split to lower joint and hinge, scattered foxing, interior good condition, exterior poor condition , half bound calf and marbled boards, blindstamped rules to spine, octavo, 23.5 x 17 cms Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: illustrations (by Thomas and John Bewick), xxvii, 68p. Old (contemporary(?) leather binding. 23cm. Backstrip chipped at base and dry and darkened. Joints splitting with covers still firmly attached. Later endpapers. Armorial bookplate ("Andrew Hasell Lance"). Mottled marbling(?) on page edges. Text sound and clean with minor waviness along edges.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver and. Poems of Goldsmith and Thomas Parnell, D.D.. W. Bulmer and Co., 1804.
Price: US$76.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The production standards of this book: paper, typeface, engraving and printing of the illustrations are, says an "Advertisement" by William Bulmer at the outset, intended "To raise the Art of Printing in this country from the neglected state in which it had long been suffered to continue ". That job has badly needed doing again in Britain ,for at least the last fifty years. Certainly a sweet book; xxviii,68 pages plus 5 full-page plates, bound in what is probably the publisher's dark green cloth with "Goldsmith's Poems" in gilt on the spine. The plates are engraved by Thomas or John Bewick and there are classic Bewick vignettes as head- and tail-pieces. The book contains lives of the two poets as well as Goldsmith's The Traveller and The Deserted Village and Parnell's The Hermit. Contemporary ownership inscriptions and blind-stamped "The Convent Loughborough" on front free endpaper Some foxing and small dents in the binding, otherwise a little-opened, pleasing copy.
Seller: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, United Kingdom
Price: US$87.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: pp. xxvi, 68 + 5 Full Page Wood Engraved Plates by William Bewick and delightful engraved scenic head and tail pieces. Paper manufactured by Mr. Whatman. Slight age staining in text and plates. Some signatures loose. 4to. 230mm. Disbound. Presented "through the medium of the Shakespeare Press, are particularly meant to combine the various beauties of Printing, Type-Founding, Engravings, and Paper-Making; as well with a view to ascertain the near approach to perfection which those arts have attained in this country." - W. Bulmer from the Advertisement which was copied from the Quarto Edition of 1795. POETRY BX 3 Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.55 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo, xxvii, (i), 68 pp. 5 plates and 8 vignettes by Thomas and John Bewick, final blank of the preliminaries with some marks. Contemporary maroon quarter morocco, rather rubbed but sound.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
. Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell. W. Bulmer & Co, 1804.
Price: US$152.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 'Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell'. W. Bulmer & Co 1804. Second edition. Illustrated throughout by Thomas Bewick. Bookplate. Contemporary half leather. Some rubbing. Good, firm binding. A little minor foxing. Good.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom
Price: US$191.11 + shipping
Description: First edition. Royal octavo. pp xxviii, 68. Five full-page engravings, and eight smaller ones, by Thomas and John Bewick. Nineteenth century binding of half dark brown morocco with raised bands, gilt decorations to spine, buckram sides, marbled endpapers. Spine and corners rubbed. Some fading to covers. Very good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$235.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Third illustrated edition. (First illustrated edition was 1796.) Hard cover, tall 8vo, finely bound by Riviere & Sons in three-quarter red morocco with marbled paper-covered boards, the spine with five raised bands tooled with gilt hunting emblems (fox, horseshoe etc.) and title. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Original Title page states :"Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing Office, Cleveland-Row,1802.; Half title dated 1804, "Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies." Fine Binder Riviere stamp signed to verso ffep. Engraved frontispiece, plus eleven additional wood engravings begun by famed English wood engraver, Thomas Bewick (1825-1891) and completed by his brother John. (2) xxiii (1) 105 (1)pp. CONDITION: Very Good , with exterior boards with edge wear yet remaining bright, spine a bit darkened. Corners rubbed. Front hinge partially cracked, but otherwise holding firmly. Moderate age toning and light foxing, mainly affecting prelims. Marbled paper endpapers remain bright. * As noted in fellow Newcastle, England-born printer William Bulmur's "Address to Patrons" at the beginning of the volume, this "Ornamented Edition" was meant as a companion work to Goldsmith's "Traveller" and "The Deserted Village," as well as Parnell's "Hermit, "and features the final woodcut engravings of the late Mr. Bewick, the work completed by his younger brother John. **Author William Somerville, Esq.(1675-1742) was best known for this early Georgic poem about field sports, first published in 1735. A number of editions ensued over the years. Samuel Johnson, in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1810), dismisses Somerville with scant approbation: ".at least he writes very well for a gentleman." He dished that Somerville died indebted, (despite an "income of 1500 pounds sterling a year ") of excessive drink, so that upon his death the estate passed to a Scottish relative. OCLC 16107954.
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver, and PARNELL, Thomas. Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell. , 1804.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: GOLDSMITH, Oliver, and PARNELL, Thomas. Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell. Later 3/4 red morocco, marbled endpapers, T.e.g. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing-Office, 1804. Hugo, Bewick Collector Supplement, 4160. With the bookplate of Woburn Abbey on front pastedown, Light scattered foxing, else very good.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$286.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A selection of three poems by Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Parnell, illustrated beautifully throughout by Thomas Bewick. The second edition of this work.A selection of the poetry of Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Parnell.Containing 'The Traveller', and 'The Deserted Village' by Oliver Goldsmith, and 'The Hermit' by Parnell.Illustrated with a vignette title page, five plates, and six in-text engravings.Illustrated by Thomas Bewick, a popular wood-engraver and natural historian.Bookplate of Edward John Kenney to the front pastedown. Kenney was a noted British Latinist, who served as the Kennedy Professor of Latin. He specialised in textual criticism, and was a leading expert on the works of Ovid and Lucretius. Kenney had a unique test when he was interviewing candidates for the college, having his cat Fufu in the room during the interview, and judging the candidates on how they treated his cat. The more kindly they treated the cat the more likely they were to be admitted.Bookplate of Fairfax Rhodes to the front pastedown. In a full calf binding, rebacked with the original boards restored. Externally, with some light rubbing and marks to the boards and spine. A little bumping to the extremities. Two bookplates to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with some odd spots. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$647.89 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Contemporary full morocco binding, richly decrated on the spine and both covers in gilt and addidtional blind tooling, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Very fresh copy, at the top of the spine a small section is missing, the spine is split for about 5 cm, a bit rubbed, otherwise very good. Special copy with the bookplate of William Edward Parry, R.N. and a fine handwritten dedication "To Captain Parry, R.N. From his affectionate Friend, T.B., Bath March 4th 1824" - From the library of the famous Arctic Explorer and later Admiral (1790 - 1855). Parry took part in Sir John Ross` exploration of 1818-1820. His second journey from 1821-1823 took him on search of the Northwest Passage, which he also searched for on his third Arctic journey in 1824/1825. 5 plates and 8 woodcuts by John and Thomas Bewick. Also from the Library of Joan and Patrick Leigh Fermor (but without ownership inscription). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1050
Seller: Books and Beaches, Anna Bechteler, Icking, Germany