Price: US$97.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Please note that this is a heavy item and will require extra postage.; Heavy, dk brown, scored calf boards; a little marked; light edge-wear; corners a little worn; binding very tight. Gilt decoration somewhat rubbed, gilt titling still quite bright. Marbled foredges, marbling a little faded. Bookplate on front pastedown; small cutting pasted to front endpaper, detailing this particular book - probably from a bookseler's catalogue. There are also some inked notes about the woodcuts, on one of the front endpapers, written by an earlier owner - the style of the handwriting suggests early 19th century. Very occasional light spotting, but in general the pp are quite clear. Five full-page woodcuts designed by John Bewick, and engraved by his brother John, in addition to other illustrations throughout the text. Two books bound together - I: The Traveller and The Deserted Village, by Goldsmith + The Hermit, by Thomas Parnell (1795); II: The Chase, by William Somerville (1796).; 4to (9" x 11"); xx+76, xv+vii+126 pages
Seller: Walden Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$235.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG minus large paper edition. Uncut papers. 4to 76pp. Plates by Bewick. Spotting to eps and tp. Stains on foredge of eps. 3/4 red leather w marbled boards and marbled eps. Staining to foredge leather. Nice tight binding 5 raised bands spine with gilt titling. Poetry
Seller: Bristlecone Books RMABA, Ridgway, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Includes: A Life of Doctor Goldsmith; The Traveler; The Deserted Village; Life of Thomas Parnell, D.D.; and The Hermit. Engraved frontispiece and five full page engravings with other vignettes throughout the text. Beautifully bound in full polished tan calf ruled in gold, raised spine in six compartments decorated and lettered in gilt. Contents show some light to occasional moderate foxing but otherwise a very clean and lovely copy in a fine binding. Size: 4to.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Large quarto. xx, 76pp. Large-paper copy. Nineteenth-century red morocco, neatly repaired. With 5 wood-engraved plates and 8 vignettes by Thomas and John Bewick. Only the frontispiece was designed and executed by John Bewick; all of the others were done by Thomas Bewick after his own designs and those of J.Johnson. Bland, History of Book Illustration, p. 224; Hugo 78; Pease 61; Isaac 228; Ray 50: one of 100 outstanding books; Tattersfield JB50.
Seller: Sam Gatteno Books, Grosse Pointe, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Large quarto, 9 1/2 x 12 inches. The scarce Large Paper Copy with uncut fore and bottom edges (top edges gilt). Attractively bound by Riviere in full polished calf with triple fillet gilt ruling to covers, elaborately gilt spine and dentelles. Original blue green endsheets. Excellent woodcut illustrations by the Bewicks throughout. "Some of the largest wood engravings attempted by the by the Bewicks and by far the handsomest of their work." Ray, p.50. Font hinge cracked, tips sl. worn. Very good and tight.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.