Almon John Junius (5 results)

Calf. Condition: Good. First Edition. lxxxiv + 355pp. Still well bound. Interior in nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions.

miniature edition; textblock good, though toned and showing a water stain; full leather binding intact, though well worn and with front hinge starting to separate; spine label "Junius" present; 327 pages, plus; prelims and adverts; amusing engraved frontispiece; for the collector of miniatures; a magnifying glass may be needed by the reader.…

TWO VOLUME SET, octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to title plates & gilt decorated raised bands to spine, marbled page edges & eps, frontispieces, vol 1- lxxxiv + 355pp, vol 2- iv + 385pp + 7pp adverts, VG (heavy scuffing to spine & board edges/corners with some surface loss, title plate to spine missing from vol 1, moderate discolouration to page edges, sl cracking to gutters, moderate foxing to pages throughout). …

1st edition. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. lxxxiv + 355pp. + iv + 385pp. + publisher's list. 2 engraved portrait frontispieces (spotted). Occasional slight browning, minor owner's inscription to both volumes, rebound in rubbed and worn boards, volume I with remains of leather spine, whilst volume 2 unskillfully rebacked in cloth. US$58.…

First Thus. Two demi octavo volumes (18.5cm). Contemporary tree calf with red and black morocco spine labels; marbled endpapers; lxxiv,[1]-355; iv,[1]-385,[7]pp (final seven pages are publisher's ads); engraved frontispieces, one folding facsimile. A tidy set; aside from some external rubbing and wear, easily VG, with the text pleasingly bright and clean. Contemporary bookplate of a John Wilson to front pastedown of each volume. With binder-bookseller's ticket ("J Young / Inverness) to both volumes. A "new" edition of Junius, assembled by the editor and bookseller John Almon, who was himself embroiled in the Junius controversy as early as 1770, when he went on trial for selling a copy of Junius' "Letter to the King," a virulent attack on George III. The current work, published by Sir Richard Phillips, appears to have been already in press at the time of Almon's death.…