Dodd rev william (35 résultats)

Etat : Fair. No Edition Remarks. 351 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Cracking to hinges,…

Cloth. Etat : Good. Smaller, sturdy book, orante gilt flowery design to all of spine and nearby sides, smooth ivory-colored boards with beautiful pattern of violets, all edges bright gilt, pattern inside covers and adjacent end papers, 268 pages. Very slight surface wear to tips, lightly browned stain at top front, nick at spine…

Hardcover. 16mo (3x5). Early printing by in Lansingburgh (NY) by William Disturnell in 1821. Leather binding over boards. Excerpts, passages and quotations from most of Shakespeare's plays (excluding Merry Wives of Windsor), organized by Comedies, Historical Plays and Tragedies. Excerpts are in chronological order within each pl…

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Dodd's 'Beauties of Shakspeare' is an 18th-century anthology of excerpts from William Shakespeare's plays, compiled by the English clergyman and writer William Dodd. Originally published in 1752, the work was a popular collection intended to make Shakespeare's most notable passages and quotations more acc…

Etat : Very Good. 1824. Hardback. 32mo. Fine in fine leather covers, with three-banded spine, gilding, and with title on black leather to spine. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear, bumping to corners and a little cracking spine ends. Overship details on front end paper. Toned, gilt-edged pages, however text is crisp and…

Pp.380; extra-engraved title with vignette & frontispiece by Heath after Corbould; lightly spotted; a very good copy of this attractive gift book edition in apt contemporary full crimson morocco, elaborately blocked in blind, lettered in gold, all edges gilt & gauffred; slightly rubbed at edges. Endpaper inscription to 'N.H. Ree…

Hardback. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. 378pp. 21 engravings or embellishments by various artists. Wright, Stephanoff, Corbould,and Westall and engraved by Heath, Rolls, Bacon, Greatbach, Engleheart, and Chevalier.A fine English binding with gilt decorated boards and spine in gilt. Lacking the front free end-paper. PLEASE EMAIL FOR…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Published in London in 1809, this is the second edition of this theological work from Rev William Dodd. William Dodd (1729-1777) was an English Anglican clergyman and a man of letters. He lived extravagantly, and dabbled in forgery in an effort to clear his debts, and was caught and convicted. Despite a p…

Etat : Very Good. 1824. Hardback. 32mo. Fine in fine leather covers, with three-banded spine, gilding, and with title on black leather to spine. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear, bumping to corners and a little cracking spine ends. Overship details on front end paper. Toned, gilt-edged pages, however text is crisp and…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket, As Issued. Later Edition. Bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, Very Good, gilt lettering at spine worn away, boards rubbed, edges soiled, widely scattered light toning. 5 1/4" x 3 1/8". [3], vi-x, 353, [19] pages (Index). With four illustrations, one at title pg. and one…

Leather. Etat : Good Only. Cooke's edition of William Dodd's powerful verses written between his conviction and execution at Newgate Prison, with engravings. Cooke's Edition. In a contemporary full tree calf binding, with gilt to the spine and borders. Marbled endpapers and contemporary blanks. Embellished with an engraved portr…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Undated c1880s. Hardback copy in full green leather boards with blind stamped borders, raised bands and gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 351pp + 16pp book catalogue to rear. Steel portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare with tissue guard, full page illustrations througho…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. "The following ballads were written between twenty and thirty years past, at various times, for the entertainment of a Society of Archers, called the Royal Kentish Bowmen, at their occasional meetings on Dartford Heath, Kent. His Royal Highness the present Prince Regent, patronized it; and being thus…

Etat : Fair. Boston (1783) Robert Hodge at his Office, in Marshall's Lane, near the Boston Stone. To which are added, his last prayer, written in the night before his death and other miscellaneous pieces. Octavo, 232pp., full leather. Fairly Good, original boards, final text page torn and sewn together, moderate toning in text t…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, original calf, front cover detached, bookplates, light wear, spine ends bit chipped, name on end-paper, else nice. The Rev. Dr. Dodd is best known today for his forgery of Lord Chesterfield's name on a bond, for which Dodd was tried, convicted, and hanged. Dr. Samuel Johnson was among…

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Publication: London, Bickers and Son, 1878 Formatting: 8vo, pp. x, 353, [18]. Condition Report: Very Good. Bound in exquisite full crimson morocco by Bickers, featuring five raised bands to the spine, rich gilt floral tooling to the compartments, and double gilt fillet borders with corner fleurons to…

, title page, iii, 232 pages, errata at end, includes his last prayer written in the night before his death, and other miscellaneous pieces, was publicly hanged at Tyburn for forging a bond of £4,200, Samuel Johnson got a petition for his release to no avail, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnig…