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Published by Exeter, New Hampshire, 1794
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 16mo, tree calf, edges worn, upper cover detached, 147pp. Sporadic foxing, paper occasionally browned. Signature on the free front endpaper of Samuel H. Walley (1805-1877), the distinguished Massachusetts businessman and politician. EVANS 26544.
Published by Harrison & Co, London, 1795
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Book
No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Audinet (illustrator). PORTRAIT BIOGRAPHY. Fine copper engraved portrait with a valuable 500 word biography of the eminent personage. Each plate is 8.5 x 5 ins, 22 x 12 cms. and will be mounted (matted) and ready to frame. The portrait is in an oval with biography underneath. Akenside was a lyric Poet and Physician, son of a butcher. Published Latin treatise on Dysentery.
Published by Thomas B. Wait & Co., Portland, 1807
Seller: Philosopher's Stone Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. a good early American small hardcover edition ( 4 X 7 ), cover boards show heavy smooth wear to edge with most of original calf remaining and a very well preserved green columned spine , binding is tight and strong with all end papers in place giving one the impression that book has never been read, various foxing to text and faint period hand writing inside front board only mark, 81 pages are divided into 4 sections each with separate period illustrated frontispiece, aside from wear to cover board edges book is in remarkable structural shape given its age.
Published by Harrison & Co., London, 1794
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Book
No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine engraved biographical portrait in the style of a miniature. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual.
Published by Printed for C Bathurst, J Buckland, W Strahan and numerous others, London, 1779
, 368 pages, frontispiece portrait, contents at rear, volume 55 of the works of the English poets by Samuel Johnson First in this edition , small loss at head of spine, some wear to joints but boards held, a little gilt loss to title label, pages clean, book in good condition ,full tree calf, red leather title and author labels, gilt bands and gilt decorations in compartments on spine , small octavo 15 x 10 cm Hardback ISBN:
Published by Thomas B. Wait, Portland, 1805
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Portland: Thomas B. Wait, 1805. Slim octavo; contemporary black sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt spine; viii,84pp. Boards and leather rather rubbed with some brief loss of paper to upper cover, preliminaries quite foxed, else Near Very Good, internally Near Fine. Didactic poem first published in 1744, the year the author traveled to Leiden to earn a medical degree. This edition issued by Thomas Baker Wait, the publisher of Maine's first newspaper, the Falmouth Gazette (1785). SHAW & SHOEMAKER 7842.
Published by R. And J. Dodsley, London, 1758
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 4to, 11pp. A very good copy in recent half calf with marbled boards. The title is a bit browned, no markings or inscriptions.
Published by Thomas B. Wait, Portland, 1805
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, top board nearly detached; sporadic browning, spotting on lower part of preliminaries, bottom corner of pages 9-16 torn. Ownership inscription of "John Lewis Jun., Baltimore," and his manuscript poem opposite title. First American edition. In 1738 at age 17, Akenside wrote this 2000-line didactic poem. It was first published anonymously in London in 1744, and "a cheap edition followed within four months, and announced for the first time the author's name" (DNB). Later, "Akenside entirely re-wrote his one long and famous poem." Although the revision, published in 1757 with the title "The pleasures of the imagination," was left unfinished, it went on to become his best-known and best-loved poem. Akenside (1721-70), a London physician, was also important for an early description of neurofibromatosis (see Garrison & Morton, 4015.1).
Published by London. J. Dodsley. 1765, 1765
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Soft cover. 8vo, 22cm, xi,136p., engraved title-page illustration, preliminaries dust worn, title page torn away along fore and bottom margin, (not effecting text), pp.134/135 torn along fore margin slightly effecting text, untrimmed, corners turned down, lacking half-title & wraps(?), spine roughly taped, internally very good (ds1). ~ An early edition of Akenside's didactic poem. First published in 1744, the work was completely rewritten by the poet in 1757. His design is given in the preface "There are certain powers in human nature which seem to hold a middle place between the organs of bodily sense and faculties of moral perception: They have been called by a very general name, The Powers of Imagination." Before publication the publisher, Dodsley, submitted the manuscript to Pope who assured him that this was "no everyday writer". Dr. Akenside was a prominent English physician and was appointed physician to the queen under the reign of George III.