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Published by David Ogilvy
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Softcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Fair condition. Small format, 4.75 x 6". Grey decorated cardwraps. B/w illustrations throughout with short verses on opposite pages. Covers worn and creased with a few small tears, spine covered with brown tape. Contents restitched (including some tears to pages). Some brown spots and fingering to pages. Still a decent copy of a scarce book. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.
Published by London: Printed For David Ogilvy and Son. Holborn; And Vernor, Hood, And Sharpe, Poultry., 1806
Seller: The Book Scot, Mansfield, MO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Smallish book about 4 by 6 1/2 inches with some 142 pages. Bound in tan paper over boards with red leather spine and tips. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine only. With stiff tan paper end papers. This is volume two only from the original two volume set. Perhaps the most noted contents of this book is the early printing of the famous Benjamin Franklin piece on 'The Morals Of Chess'. Also includes a substantial number of chess anecdotes about famous people. Bit of rubbing to the leather; some darkening to the covers paper apparently from the glue used. An unusually nice copy of this book. VERY GOOD.
Published by David Ogilvy and Son
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Acceptable. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Fair condition two volume hardback set of Brown's Bible from 1806. Significant wear to the boards and spine of both books, with the boards loose and coming away from the main textblock. Volume one contains neat inscriptions to the front endpaper of a couple getting married, with further notations about their four children. Textblock edges are a faded marble, with thumbing and general foxing to pages commensurate with age. Needs rebinding but would make a nice set. More photos available on request.
Published by Printed for David Ogilvy and Son, London, 1799
Seller: David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, U.S.A.
viii, [9]-110 pp. Disbound, lacking the final advertisement leaf, and torn at the corner of leaf 37-38 [several words and letters affected]. Otherwise, Good+. The book first issued from New York in 1798. This is the only other 18th century edition. "Dunlap became manager of the Park Theatre in New York, where early in the season this play was successfully produced. Interest is added to the work because of the documents printed at the end. It was reprinted in London the following year" [Church]. Andre was hanged as a British spy for his role in Benedict Arnold's treason. But his noble demeanor won the admiration of everyone who encountered him. Dunlap says that the play's "principal incident is the sad catastrophe which his misconduct, in submitting to be an instrument in a transaction of treachery and deceit, justly brought upon him." The Play precedes "The Cow-Chace: A Satirical Poem. By Major Andre." There follow "The Trial of Major Andre," with extracts of Letters from General Washington to the President of Congress in 1780; the Proceedings of the military trial, with correspondence from Benedict Arnold. An Appendix prints a "Copy of a Letter from Major Andre, Adjutant -General, to Sir Henry Clinton," dated September 29, 1780, and other correspondence; and extracts from Alexander Hamilton's published letter praising Andre's dignity and bravery. ESTC T88944. New York printings: Church 1279. BAL 4980. Hill, American Plays 72.
Published by London: Printed For David Ogilvy And Son, Holborn; And Vernor, Hood, And Sharpe, Poultry, 1806
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Frontis, 7 x 4, blue-grey boards, printed paper spine labels, 184pp, 142pp. Covers loose and spotted, Volume I front cover and ffep detached, corners bumped, spines gone except for small piece on Volume II, spine labels missing pieces, ink name & inscription (Evey? ? from her grandfather 31 dec-'87), a few loose signatures in Volume I else good. Dr. Franklin's essay "The Morals of Chess" is to be found in Volume II, pages 115-119. Benjamin Franklin started playing chess in the 1730s, which is also the time period that he started working on "Morals", it didn't become public until 1786. This essay was reprinted several times by the end of the 18th centrury and translated into French, German and Russian. It was originally printed on Franklin's Passy Press but no known copy has survived. This book, "An Easy Introduction" was extremely popular and was reprinted many times. FIRST EDITION, EXTREMELY SCARCE.