Author Pioneers Etc (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1824, first edition. This is volume II only. 270 pages. Marbled papered boards and half-leather, heavily rubbed to panels and edges. Red leather title window with gilt titles, rubbed but still legible. Spine square. Binding sound. Insect damage at inner edges of both pastedowns, without effect on binding or textblock. Endsheets moderately foxed, with contemporary owner's name inked to top of ffep. Notes in the same hand in the margins of page 105: one reading '___ breath, come death' and another reading 'Horribly sublime.' Penciled marginalia in another hand to page 63, 'Pathetic,' and a Shakespeare quote. Page 139 dog-eared at top corner, with discoloration to pages 138 and 139 consistent with pressed flower. Text elsewise free of notes, lightly foxed throughout but otherwise unmarked. Photographs available upon request.

Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. Volume 1 only. 258 pp; two initial blanks and two final blanks; brown and pink endpapers. Original boards covered in thin leather, worn and with small areas of leather perished; hinges tight; book clean with no marks or internal damage. Spine is rebacked, all new leather on the spine itself only; spine itself chipped and unworthy of restoration, a new spine in style is required.