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John Dryden and Walter Scott. The Works of John Dryden; Illustrated With Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author. Vol. XVI. Printed for William Miller, by James Ballantyne an, 1808.

Price: US$5.54 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1808. No edition remarks. 536 pages. Brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Ex-Libris sticker to front pastedown. Volume 16 of 18. Binding remains firm. Hinges are cracked. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine head. Slight tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened a little. Boards are bowed slightly.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

John Dryden and Walter Scott. The Works of John Dryden; Illustrated With Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author. Vol. V. Printed for William Miller, by James Ballantyne an, 1808.

Price: US$6.93 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1808. No edition remarks. 411 pages. Brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Ex-Libris sticker to front pastedown. Book has a slight smoky odour overall. Volume 5 of 18. Binding remains firm. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Hinges are cracked with netting exposed. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

John Dryden and Walter Scott. The Works of John Dryden; Illustrated With Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author. Vol. IV. Printed for William Miller, by James Ballantyne an, 1808.

Price: US$6.93 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1808. No edition remarks. 447 pages. Brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Volume 4 of 18. Ex-Libris sticker to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Hinges are cracked. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened slightly.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

(Dryden, John) ; Walter Scott. Volume I ONLY: the Life of John Dryden (In the Works of John Dryden Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes Historical, Critical and Explanatory and a Life of the Author by Walter Scott). James Ballantyne and Company. Printed for William Miller, London, Edinburgh, 1808.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: PLEASE READ FULL DESCRIPTION. Vol I ONLY! First edition (no additional printings listed). Contemporary half leather (spine and corners) and marbeled paste-down paper covered boards, marbeled endpapers, all edges yellow (appears to have been done more recently) , approximately 5 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches, xv + 534 pp, illustrated with engraved frontispiece of Dryden by James Fittler. Front board DETACHED (present) , 4 inch tear on rear joint, corners bumped with cardboard exposed there and at spots along edges of boards, leather scuffed, mostly along edges and on spine , two approximately 1/4 inch chips off spine label, 1/4 inch chip off head, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Biography; literature; fine binding

Seller: Frost Pocket Farm - IOBA, Fleetville, PA, U.S.A.

Scott, Walter.. The Life Of John Dryden. [Limited edition of 50 copies].. Printed for William Miller by James Ballantyne and Co.,, Edinburgh:, 1808.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: Pagination: [vi], 532p. Original cloth rebacked at an early date preserving the original spine, wear and rubbing to edges and corners, title label rubbed. Some foxing at start and end of book but mostly clean with very large margins. Inside front board endpaper with ghosting of old bookplate, also first blank with small ink dot, no affect to content. Overall a very good copy of a scarce edition. Illustrations: With engraved frontispiece. John Dryden (1631-1700) was a poet, literary critic, playwright and translator. Hew rote his first poems when working in the civil service under Oliver Cromwell. He was appointed the first official Poet Laureate in 1668 serving King Charles II and then King James II. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) well known author and editor. First edition. Limited quarto edition of only 50 copies.

Seller: Dark Parks Books & Collectibles, Fallon, NV, U.S.A.

Dryden, John & Scott, Walter. The Works of John Dryden Volume 1-18. JAMES BALLANTYNE, LONDON, 1808.

Price: US$800.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: ADDITIONAL SHIPPiNG. Weights 25 pounds.Navy Blue Textured Cover, not original binding, includes translations by Homer and Virgil. general wear to covers and spines of all volumes. An 18 Volume set. All volumes are present. Volume 11 has white residue from previous wrapping, Volumes 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 15 and 17 are all wrapped and taped in white paper. Volume 1 is titled "Life of Dreyden". Volumes 2-8 are titled "Dramatic Pieces". Volumes 9-10 are titled "Poems". Volume 11 is titled "Epistles". Volume 12 is titled "Fables". Volume 13-15 are titled "Translation". Volume 16 is titled "Life of Zavier". Volume 17-18 are titled "Prose Pieces". These wrappings all have wear. Volumes 1, 5, 11, 14, 18, 10, 16, 13, 9 and 8 are unwrapped. Pen and Pencil writing to front endpaper of volume one, stating: Boston 10-11-33 "Godspeeds" [Bookstore] Rebound for me 10-19-34. Signs of Previous moisture on rear cover of Vol 1 and Vol 3 which does not affecting text. all other volumes are in good condition. Previous owner's name in each volume. Ship from Atlantic City, NJ. good endpapers. wear to pages. roughly 7,380 pages in total. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical and explanatory and a life by the author. overall in good condition. ADDITIONAL PACKAGING. Weights 25 pounds. DATE PUBLISHED: 1808 EDITION: 7380

Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.

DRYDEN, JOHN.. THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and A Life of the Author, by Walter Scott, Esq.. London. James Ballantyne. 1808, 1808.

Price: US$3573.75 + shipping

Description: Royal octavo. 18 volumes complete. VERY HANDSOMELY LEATHER BOUND IN FULL PERIOD STRAIGHT-GRAIN DARK GREEN MOROCCO, five raised bands elaborately gilt stamped with small floral tools in compartments and the boards blind embossed with gilt fillets and gilt boxed floral corners. First collected edition being the first Scott edition and a Large Paper copy. Engraved frontispiece and one folding engraved plate. A lovely set in a contemporary English binding in good condition.

Seller: Charles Russell, ABA, ILAB, est 1978, cirencester, United Kingdom