liv, 536; 541 pages. With hand coloured title page to each, frontispiece of Goldsmith in Vol. 1, and 45 of the 46 plates called for in this edition [lacking xxi; the 24 supplementary plates were "not necessarily included in this edition" - directions to the binder]. All edges and endpapers marbled (top edge dusty); light scuffing to covers. Clean interiors; bindings sound. Text in double columns. Each plate retains the tissue guard; the colouring is supurb. Volume 1 dated 1846; volume 2: 1847. View More...
[2], 309, [1], [4]; [2], 286 pages. Volume I imprint: "Bible and Sun, St. Paul's Church-Yard", Volume II: "Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard". Volume I page 62 not numbered, 012 is blank with two leaves of ads following. Volume II with one leaf of ads following title page; no ads at rear. Contemporary calf, rebacked with recent leather spines; corners repaired. Contemporary scribbling, inscriptions, and doodling to worn endpapers. Leaves toned; bindings sound. 6.75 x 4.1 inches. View More...
Volume eight of eight. 199 pages, 2 plates, and the unpaged Index of approximately 300 pages. Leather scuffed, with superficial loss; binding is sound. One plate inexpertly coloured. 'Christian Brothers Library' inked to front pastedown and title page, and small blind embossed stamp 'Christian Schools Kingstown' to some leaves. 8.5 x 5.3 inches. View More...
iv, 248 pages. Joints split but boards secure. Pencil notation to front free endpaper, private ownership indications to title page. Binding sound; contents clean. View More...
x, 272, [6] pages; complete with frontispiece and three plates; pages 12 and 253 misnumbered. Extremities rubbed, upper joint split for an inch from top. Binding sound; contents clean. View More...
xvii, iv, 242; 219, [3] pages. Foxing to endpapers, first few and final few leaves. Lower joint of I and upper joint of II starting but still well attached; spine ends chipped. View More...
[4],iv, [9]-200 pages. With half title, but lacking front free endpaper and one blank at rear. Both boards nearly detached; first 15 leaves stained, moderate toning thereafter. View More...
254; 209; iv, 149, 145; 353; 290, x; 229, [3]; 279 pages; with engraved frontispiece in each (two folding), one other plate in Vols. I and II, and three in IV. The first three volumes 1791, the rest 1792. All edges marbled. Armorial bookplate of Bannerman of Elsick / Crimonmogate to pastedown of each, and more recent plate of James R. Dubro [depicting Hogarth's Trim reading the sermon in Tristram Shandy] to front free endpaper of each. Offsetting and foxing to first few and final few leaves; tideline to top margin of Vol. I; pronounced stain to foot of 4 consecutive leaves in II. Genarally a v... View More...
xlii, 151 pages. Contemporary tree calf. Relatively recent bookplate of Franz Pollack Parnau to front pastedown. Binding sound; no inscriptions. At some time spine and corners deftly repaired. 6 x 4 inches. View More...
45 pages. Clean and unmarked. Important early Canadian poem by the grand nephew of the author of The Deserted Village. This O.G. was born 1794 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. View More...
344 pages. A number of instances of contemporary signature of Charles Huntington of Norwich. Two volumes in one, with separate title page for II, continuously paginated. Full contemporary leather, front board detached, rear joint split but sound. OCLC notes "Engraved frontispiece-portrait of Goldsmith"; there is no frontispiece in this copy and it appears that one was not originally bound it. One free endpaper at front and rear. Tanned and with light spotting throughout. Uncommon imprint. View More...
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