Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 2 only. Full leather cover shows moderate wear, rubbing, discoloration, edgewear. Pages are tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 6 only. Bound in full leather. Cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, edgewear, loss on the spine, joints starting. Stamp indicating previous ownership one of "Prinz. von Preussen" on the title page, with a crown and the initial F. Engraved frontispieces for each play. Pages are tanned with minor scattered foxing.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: J. And R. Tonson, 1762. This is a Very Good copy of a Later Printing. Smooth calf binding, covers ruled in gilt. Spine is decorated and titled in gilt on two red labels. This volume contains five plays: "Don Sebastian, King of Portugal;" "Amphitryon: Or, The Two Sosia's;" "Cleamenes, The Spartan Heroe;" "King Arthur: Or, The British Worthy;" and "Love Triumphant: Or, Nature will prevail." Clean text; 479 pages; marbled endpapers. Each play has a lovely frontis engraving. Pages are lightly tanned, but unfoxed. Armorial bookplate on the front paste-down. Unfortunately, both covers have cracked. The front cover is holding, but the rear cover, although present, is detached. Please note the condition issue. Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy, in need of repair or restoration. Considering the quality of the textblock, Quercus considers this an excellent candidate for a quality rebind. Later Printing. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 6 vols.: xcvi, 311; 465, [2]; 456; 466, [2]; 407, [1]; 477, [2] p. 17 cm. 29 engraved plates including frontispiece portrait in vol. I. Full leather with raised bands. 3 spine labels missing, other three are chipped. Vol. 4 cracking at pp. 302-303. Spine ends chipped, corners and edges worn. Some black stains to outsides. Vol. VI front board nearly detached. Reference labels and bookplates on front pastedowns. Ink signatures at top of title pages. Paper clean. Most rear free endpapers chipped where signature torn out. Includes Troilus and Cressida, King Arthur, Love Triumphant, Don Sebastian, All For Love, Marriage a-la-mode, The Indian Emperor, much more.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Dryden, John. The Dramatick Works of John Dryden. T. and R. Tonson, 1762.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Dramatick Works of John Dryden in Six Volumes, Printed for J. & R. Tonson in the Strand, London, 1762, frontispiece of Dryden, twenty-eight engraved plates with head and tail pieces, vignettes, 311, 465, 456, 466, 407, 477, pp, full original leather, 7 x 4.25, 12mo. In good condition. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing along edges and corners. Joints slightly tender with light cracking, all boards attached. Spine on Volume III is split, binding broken. All other bindings tight and intact. Spine desiccated with slight cracking and minor abrasions. Spine labels are all intact, numerical and titles. Slight chipping at spine ends with some loss. Internally good with light toning throughout. Light, scattered foxing scattered throughout each textblock. Green silk book markers all intact, albeit frayed at ends. All plates present. Free of known markings or ownership. Light scuffing to surface of leather overall. Please see photos. Includes Trolius and Cressida, King Arthur, Love Triumphant, Don Sebastian, All For Love, Marriage a-la-mode, The Indian Emperor and much more. Scarce.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.