johnson samuel translator (5 resultados)

Hardcover. First Edition. Pages have water stain over half of the page through the book, text block solid, front hinge weak, edge wear and bumping to 3/4 leather and marble boardsPlease contact us about shipping costs for international orders of over-sized books or multi-book sets. We are happy to provide accurate quote prior to purchase. Pages have water stain over half.

Hardcover. Facsimile Edition. Octavo, [16], xx, 327 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in full red cloth with black titling to spine. Very minor bumping to head and tail of spine; very light sunning to spine. Lower edges of boards very lightly shelf worn. Top edge of text block dusty. Vol. XIII of the POPEIANA portion of the Garland series THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SEVEN MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS; a facsimile of the original 1739 text by Crousaz based on a copy in Yale University Library. 1389029. Special Collections - Downstairs.

Complete five volume set. Full title - MEMOIRS OF MAXIMILIAN DE BETHUNE, DUKE OF SULLY, PRIME MINISTER TO HENRY THE GREAT. CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND REIGN OF THAT MONARCH, AND HIS OWN ADMINISTRATION UNDER HIM. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE FEMALE QUIXOTE. TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE TRYAL OF RAVAILLAC FOR THE MURDER OF HENRY THE GREAT. IN FIVE VOLUMES. A NEW EDITION. VOL. I, II, III, IV, and V. Hardcovers: H 21.75cm x L 13.75cm. All uniformly bound in half-leather (i.e. light brown/tan leather spines and marbled paper over boards with light brown/tan leather corners) bindings; spines have five fractionally raised bands with decorative gilt tooling to four compartments; dark brown labels for gilt lettered spine titles "Sully's Memoirs") and respective volume numbers; past owner's personal age-toned library paper label affixed near spine heels; Volumes II and IV have some surface chips to their spines. Mild rubbing to boards. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Two owners' old ink stamps "S.B. Mathews" and "Luther Fuller" on front flyleaf rectos save for Vol. IV which only has Fuller stamp; pencil notation "W. 836" at each title page's top right; some foxing and light toning to leaves. Bindings are firm. Still a handsome set. Only Volumes I and II have frontispieces; Volume I also has foldout map between pages xxxiv-1. Acquired from a Birmingham, Alabama estate but from a family whose eighteenth to mid-twentieth century roots, as evidenced by inscriptions and the like among other books in the large collection, were in New England and, in particular, within Maine. Please note that this set has an approximate shipping weight of 8 pounds (3.62 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

8vo, pp. [iv], 500, [2] advertisements; a sound copy in contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered; new morocco label. Second edition: edited, with an introduction, by the Scots churchman George Gleig (1753-1840). He dedicates the book to Arthur Murphy and devotes his introduction to attacking almost every aspect of Sir John Hawkins's biography, and the edition of Johnson's works which he supervised: 'For these, as well as his own mistakes, Sir John Hawkins alone is answerable. Had not he thrust himself into an office which he is so little qualified to fill, and claimed it by an engagement so sacred as to keep others at a distance, there would surely have been found among Johnson's friends some guardian of his fame equal to the task of doing justice to his character' (pp. 5-6). Gleig is also dismissive of the 1735 edition, for the 'blunders of the printer', which are 'uncommonly numerous'. Fleeman 35.2LV/2; Courtney & Nichol Smith pp. 3-4; Chapman & Hazen p. 165. This edition was intended to be a supplementary fifteenth volume to the Hawkins edition, following on from Stockdale's two-volume edition of the Parliamentary Debates (1787); but as with most copies, the half title stating this is no longer present. The book was almost certainly sold as a separate work at the time, and that prefatory leaf cancelled.

8vo, pp. [iv, 500, [2] advertisements; a good copy in contemporary sprinkled calf, spine with morocco label, joints cracking. Edited, with an introduction, by the churchman George Gleig (1753-1840): he dedicates the book to Arthur Murphy and the introduction to attacking almost every aspect of Sir John Hawkins's biography: 'For these, as well as his own mistakes, Sir John Hawkins alone is answerable. Had not he thrust himself into an office which he is so little qualified to fill, and claimed it by an engagement so sacred as to keep others at a distance, there would surely have been found among Johnson's friends some guardian of his fame equal to the task of doing justice to his character'.