London: Printed for J. Roberts near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1715. First Edition. 8vo: [2],219,[5]pp, with frontispiece and imprimatur leaf. Variant with price 3s/6d on title page. Period calf ruled in blind, rebacked to style, red morocco lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed. From the library of bibliophile Hugh... more
London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, M.DCC.LXXIV [1774]. First Edition. Full Calf. Two quarto volumes complete, in English, Latin and French. [4],vii,[1],568; [4],606,[2, errata]pp, with half-titles, engraved frontispiece portrait (in vol. I) by J. Vitalba after William Hoare. Contemporary calf, boards framed with French fillets, spines, in five compartments..... more
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1856. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing, with '(1)' on half-title, Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry on title page verso, battered type at the bottom of page 230, and type of last line on p. 304 not battered. 8vo: 312pp. Publisher's dark brown ribbed... more
A Londres: chez J. Tonson, a l’enseigne de Shakespear dans le Strand; & J. Watts, a son Imprimerie dans Wild-Court pres de Lincolns-Inn-Fields, MDCCXXVI [1726]. Full Calf. The Second Edition published in England, based upon the extensively corrected, enlarged and reconceived Paris edition of 1717. 12mo; [18], xxviii, [4], 468... more
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Impression, published three months after the first. Tall 8vo: 191,[1]pp. Publisher's beige cloth, spine lettered in brown, top edge stained vermillion, patterned dust jacket priced 12/6. Near Fine (foxed edges but binding square and tight); Near Fine jacket (lightening to spine... more
Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Williams, Colles, Wilson, Lynch, Jenkin, Walker, Burnet, Hallhead, Flin, Exshaw, Beatty, and White, M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]. Full Calf. First Dublin Edition, collated and complete in three volumes. First Issue, with "partaking his posterity" in line 3 of p. 4, repeated page numbers 143-144 in vol. I.... more
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, [1775]. First Edition. Full Calf. 8vo: iv,416pp. Full calf, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, red morocco gilt lettering piece, all edges stained red. Minor wear and splits along joints, but binding square and tight; text clean and fresh with ample... more
London: Privately printed for subscribers only by Cumann Sean-eolair nah-Eireann, 1921. Hardcover. Limited Signed Edition (No. 1170 of 1250 copies) printed on handmade paper with deckle edges. Near Fine (bookplates on paste downs, soiled top edges, bumped spine ends) vellum spines with white paper labels over blue cloth-covered boards, in... more
London: Sold by Benjamin and John White, Fleet-Street, and Robert Faulder, New Bond Street, M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]. First Edition. Three-Quarter Calf. 4to: [6],144pp, copper-engraved portrait frontispiece of Pennant ("Tho.s Gainsborough, pinx.t 1776, engraved by W. Ridley"), two copper-engraved full-page plates (view of the Church of Fountains Abby and portrait of the..... more
London: printed for T. Durham, at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street, 1777. First Edition. Quarter-bound Leather. 8vo: [2],x,222pp. Contemporary leather spine in six compartments between raised bands, recent red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled sides and end papers. Joints skillfully and almost imperceptibly reinforced, marbled sides... more
London: printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Wilkie, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. Davies, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCLXXV, 1775. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. First Edition, in two parts (volumes): Part I. The art of reading prose. Part II. The art of reading verse. 8vo..... more
London: printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Wilkie, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. Davies, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCLXXV, 1775. First Edition. Full Calf. First Edition. 8vo; xii, 392pp. Beautifully bound by Fitterer to period style in full speckled calf, spine in six compartments between..... more
London: Printed for Robinson and Roberts, MDCCXLIX [but 1769]. First Edition. Full Calf. First Issue (with the erroneous date 1749 on the title page). 12mo: viii,227;[ii],190pp. Half title in Volume II only. Newly bound by Fitterer in period-style speckled calf, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands ruled in... more
London: printed for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, W. Owen, R. Horsfield , B. White and son, T. Longman, B. Law, C. Rivington, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwinm G. G. J. and J. Robinson, C. Dilly, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, W. Goldsmith, J. J, M DCC... more
London: [n.p.], Printed in the Year MDCCLXIX [1769]. Quarter-bound Leather. Three titles bound in one, all issued (no printer or publisher given) in 1769, complete in five volumes, continuously paginated in Arabic and Roman numerals. 12mo: 150,[3],cliv-clxvi,[1],168-306pp. "Yorick’s sentimental journey, continued . . . By Eugenius" (i.e., John Hall-Stevenson) comprises..... more
London: Printed for S. Bagster, in the Strand, By R. Watts, at Broxbourne, on the River Lea, Herts, MDCCCXV [1815]. Full Calf. 8vo: [2],514p,[20]pp, with 13 (of 14) full-page engraved plates and 36 further illustrations (17 of fish, 2 maps of the River Lea & the River Dove, 2 autograph... more
London: Printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait, 1651. First Edition. Full Calf. 12mo: [60],540pp, with four copper-engraved portraits (of Wotton, Charles I, the Duke of Buckingham, and the Earl of Essex). Contemporary calf, flat spine with later red morocco lettering piece gilt, plain period... more
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