The Lives Of The Most Eminent English Poets [3 Volume Set] by Johnson, Samuel - 1896

James Parker and Co, 1869. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1869. Second Edition. 413 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with decorations. Volume I. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Heavy sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

George Clark and Son, 1847. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Textblock only, could be re-bound by an expert. Occasional foxing. Scarce in any condition.

London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 'A New Edition, Corrected'. Could have been a library book (signs of ripped out ticket holder and plate on front end papers, but no other signs). In very good olive green cloth boards, gilt titles to back strip. The covers are very clean, tight and straight and are not the original. Clean off-white replacement end papers. Tanned cut edges. The text block is original from publisher; a little worn; tightly bound; some pages slightly wrinkled; sporadic foxing. Very good condition. No annotations or dedications. Without jacket.

London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1880. Later. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, Brown boards with gilt and black letters and graphics. The front and rear boards have a slight bow. There is a damp stain on the front and rear boards and the edges of pages. No interruption of the text. Pages 450 and 451 show fading; the result of a piece of paper being left in the book. There is light foxing throughout. Gifted 1882 on the first free page back. The "Chandos Classics". 588 pages.

Benjamin Warner. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Two volumes of leather-bound three-volume set; Vol. I (408 p.) is complete but front board is detached and t.p. is smudged and stained, with name of former owner wrotten on upper margin--lower margin torn away, as is lower margin of "The Original Advertisement to the First Edition, 1779-1780." The rest of the volume is in much better condition, though some pages dog-eared and many are foxed. Paper is of fine quality and quite strong.T.O.C. comprises : Cowley, Denham, Milton, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Waller, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh and Dryden. Volume II is missing. Volume II (348 p.) begins with p. 17 and both the front and back boards are missing--a large label showing it to be part of an inheritance hides most of the text of p. pp. 17-39 are dog-eared at lower corner. Paper strong, though foxed. Articles include: Swift, Broome, Pope, Thomson, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young, Mallet,… Read More

London: J. Buckland, C. Bathurst and T. Davies, 1793. Later edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Volume 3 only. Later Edition, 1793. Hardcover, 1/2 leather with marbled boards. 256 pp. Fair copy: both boards loose, but present; spine leather has deteriorated, but the backstrip is still holding the pages intact. Some pages are lightly foxed or faded, but the text is still readable. Previous owner's signatures on the front blank. Poets from this volume: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Gay, Granville, Yalden, Tickell, Hammond, Somervile, Savage, Swift, Broome.

Halifax: William Milner,, 1835. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good. inscription on title page small splits side spine

Frederick Warne & Co. Book. Good. Hardcover. Slight split to one side of spine. Spine faded. Corners bumped. Prize plate inside front cover. 588pp.

Paperback / softback. New.

Edinburgh: James Sawers, 1818. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 4 only. [4], 314 p.; 17 cm. Contemporary half polished black calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Red leather label in second and fourth compartments with gilt-tooled title and volume number; gilt-tooled decoration on remainder of spine. Marbled paper over boards with blind-rolled decoration along leather edges. All page edges marbled; marbled endpaper. Printed by R. Chapman, Glasgow. Contents: William Collins -- Jonathan Swift -- Alexander Pope -- Christopher Pitt -- Isaac Watts -- Ambrose Philips -- Gilbert West -- William Shenstone -- David Mallet -- Mark Akenside -- Thomas Gray -- George Lyttelton. In Very Good Condition: rubbed, with minor loss at head of spine; light foxing on a few pages; otherwise, clean and tight.