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Price: US$22.76 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1807. Printed For Vernor, Hood and Sharp; J. and A. Arch; J. Walker et al. Hardcover. GOOD Gilt titles, full leather boards with gilt trim. Boards are loose. Spine cracked. Foxed. Marked. Spine split. 8x5.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Thomas Gray. The Works of Thomas Gray Vol. I. Printed for Vernon, Hood and Sharpe; et al, 1807.
Price: US$43.60 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1807. No Edition Stated. 262 pages. No dust jacket. Vol. I. Half leather bound to patterned boards, with gilt lettering. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion.Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Notable tanning to pages throughout. Front hinge cracked. Some pages loose but not detached. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting to joint ends. Notable tanning to spine and board edges, with scuffing, few small stains and soiling to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Description: 1807, London, printed for Verner, Hood, and Sharpe, etc; third edition, two volumes, engraved frontispiece in volume one, ppxi + 316; xiii +(ii) publisher's catalogue + 324, full calf, red labels, gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Northup 17. Rubbed and a little worn, vol I, has worm holes in the margins through to p113 with no loss of text, otherwise very good.
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.94 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Provenance; from the library of Seminarii S. Ioannis with its bookplate and library marks. Physical description; vol. I (only): 324 pages. Subjects; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) ; Correspondence. Poets, English 18th century ; Correspondence. Poets, English 18th century ; Biography. Genre; Biography. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$82.00 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Provenance; from the library of Seminarii S. Ioannis with its bookplate and library marks. Physical description; vol. I (only): 324 pages. Subjects; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) ; Correspondence. Poets, English 18th century ; Correspondence. Poets, English 18th century ; Biography. Genre; Biography. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$241.76 + shipping
Description: 2 voll. in-16° (166x104mm), pp. (4), VII, 262, (4); (4), 270, (4); assai bella legatura ottocentesca in p. pelle color prugna con filettature e bordure plurime ornamentali impresse in oro e a secco ai piatti. Titolo, segnature di volume, fregi e filetti in oro ai dorsi. Tagli dorati, sguardie azzurre. Antiporte incise su acciaio da Smith e da Mackenzie con ritratti del Gray e del Mason. Qualche lieve brunitura e fioritura. Ottimo esemplare. Quarta edizione collettiva delle opere del Gray, comprensiva anche dell'epistolario del grande lirico protoromantico inglese, oggi ricordato soprattutto per l'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard.
Seller: Gilibert Libreria Antiquaria (ILAB), Torino, TO, Italy
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Description: Second Edition, First Large Paper. Original or contemporary gray paper boards with later black calf spine with gilt lettering. The scarce Large Paper Copy of the second edtioin, printed one year after the first, of which only a few copies were issued in large paper as per "History of the Catnach Press:" "A Second Edition, of which a few copies were printed on extra thick paper, royal 8vo., to match with some of his other works, [was] illustrated by Bewick, with 13 cuts." Corners bumped, spine slight worn, some browning, slight tear to corner of free fly, overall a very good copy.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$7375.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Three scarce complete sets of early nineteenth-century publications of influential Medieval and Early-Modern Era chronicles, uniformly and finely bound. Holinshed's Chronicles, also known as Holinsheds Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, is a collaborative work published in several volumes and two editions, the first in 1577, and the second in 1587. In 1548 Reginald Wolfe, a London printer, conceived the idea of creating a "Universal Cosmography of the whole world, and there with also certain particular histories of every known nation." He wanted the work to be printed in English and he wanted maps and illustrations in the book as well. Wolfe acquired many of John Leland's works and with these he constructed chronologies and drew maps that were up to date. When Wolfe realised he could not complete this project on his own, he hired Raphael Holinshed and William Harrison to assist him. Wolfe died with the work still uncompleted in 1573, and the project, changed to a work about just the British Isles, was run by a consortium of three members of the London stationers. They kept Raphael Holinshed who employed William Harrison, Richard Stanyhurst, Edmund Campion and John Hooker. In 1577 the work was published in two volumes after some censorship by the Privy Council of some of Stanyhurst's contribution on Ireland. Shakespeare used the revised second edition of the Chronicles (published in 1587) as the source for most of his history plays, the plot of Macbeth, and for portions of King Lear and Cymbeline. Richard Grafton (c. 15111572), was King's Printer under Henry VIII and Edward VI. He was a member of the Grocers' Company and MP for Coventry elected 1562-63. On the accession of Edward VI, Grafton was appointed King's Printer and this gave him the sole right to print all Acts and Statutes. He had held the appointment for six years, when on the King's death, he printed a proclamation of the accession of Lady Jane Grey, in which he signed himself "Printer to the Queen." For this he was cast into prison by Mary I. John Cawood became Queen's Printer, and Grafton's career as a printer ended. In prison Grafton compiled an Abridgement of the Chronicles of England, which he published in 1563. To this he added in 1568 A Chronicle at Large. Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 1400 20 July 1453), French chronicler, belonged to a noble family of Picardy. In 1436 and later he held the office of lieutenant of the gavenier (i.e. receiver of the gave, a kind of church rate) at Cambrai, and he seems to have made this city his usual place of residence. He was for some time bailiff of the cathedral chapter and then provost of Cambrai. Little else is known about Monstrelet except that he was present, not at the capture of Joan of Arc, but at her subsequent interview with Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. Continuing the work of Froissart, Monstrelet wrote a Chronique, which extends to two books and covers the period between 1400 and 1444, when, according to another chronicler, Mathieu d'Escouchy, he ceased to write. Monstrelet's own writings, dealing with the latter part of the Hundred Years' War, are valuable because they contain a large number of documents which are certainly, and reported speeches which are probably, authentic. This publication of Monstrelet's chronicles are the first English translation, translated by Thomas Johnes. 'Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normany by the English, their explusion thense, and of other memorable events that happened in the Kindom of France as well as in other countries. A history of fair example and of great profit to the French, beginning at the year MCCCC where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII and continued by others to the year MDXVI'. Holinshed contains facsimiles of the original 1586 titles and a handwritten 'list of Kings of Scotland from Holinshed's History' loosely inserted. Grafton contains facsimiles of the original 1569 titles and a table to the rear 'declaring the reignes of euerie King of this Realme'. Monstrelet has vignette titles and volume v is made up of 51 plates, one folding, collate complete. Armorial bookplates of Coulthart of Coulthart and Collyn, 'Virtue non Verbis' to front pastedown of every volume. Three sets uniformly bound in decorative full diced calf. Externally very attractive with a lovely patina to the spines. There is some wear and rubbing to the extremities, occasioning slight loss to some of the spine leather: very slight to the heads and tails of most volumes, and in the cases of volume II of the Holinshed and volume I of the Grafton, more loss affecting the gilt lettering.There are a few marks to the boards. Of the twenty-six joints, three are starting, fifteen are cracked and delicate, and four boards are held by the cords only. So in need of osome reinforcement at modest cost for this important set. Internally, they are all firmly bound. Generally bright and clean, with some instances of age-toning ranging mild to bad, occasional off-setting from the text, and some intermittent scattered spotting and the odd severely spotted page. The Holinshed set has marks to page V of volume i, small spill burns to the gutters of some pages, a closed tear to page 3 of volume i, dusting and tide marks to volume ii, and an ink note to the verso of the front free-endpaper of volume i. Grafton has a few small dustmarks. Monstrelet has some instances of light foxing, and ink marks to page 2 of volume III. Some spotting to the bookplates. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom