Johnson Richard Compiler (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket as issued. Good binding and cover. Bump to spine. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Wolfgang, Teri (illustrator). Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good used book, light creasing and wear. 679p.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover. Fine binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Top corners of cover MINIMALLY bent, otherwise flawless.

Quarter Bound in Leatherette. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. David Johnson (illustrator). First Thus. Attractive edition containing 13 Sherlock Holmes adventures, bound in green cloth boards with navy leatherette spine. 318pp illustrated with monochrome drawings. Afterword by John L Cobbs. Gilt lettering to front board and spine. Slight bumping to top corner of spine, otherwise near fine copy with no inscriptions. Also enclosed, Reader's Digest newsletter featuring this volume. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 656 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Large duodecimo, contemporary polished flame sheep newly rebacked, minor spots or faint stains here and there, pencilled notes erased from front paste down, neat mend to blank edge of leaf K4, in very nice condition for an early children's book. The first edition of 1789 had no illustrations; Newbery apologizes for the delay in publishing this second edition, but Bewick had been ill, and died before publication of this, his final work. The earliest edition in Osborne is 1801. Hugo 87; Roscoe Newbery, J39(2); Osborne, page 268 (1801 edition ). The second edition, but the first illustrated edition. Rare.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ten volumes in 2. First published in London in 1779, this is a reprint of 1782. Non-matching set. Volume 1: Period marbled boards, gilt spine, red page edges. [1] leaf, 96; 98; 98; 98; 100pp. Each volume with separate title page. Copper engraved frontis at first title page. Wear to points and edges, upper corner of front board (and text block corner) bumped. Period bookplate of Eduard Goetz. Firm binding. Volume 2: period paper-covered boards. Possible old ex-library with old small paper labels to spine and lower cover, tiny "C of U, 1830" inked to fpd. Scrapes to boards, corner wear. 96; 92; 100; 102; 96pp. Front and rear blanks. Firm binding. This volume is slightly larger than the first. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.

First Edition. in contemporary plain sheep, spine cracking, some scuffing to covers, plain spine ruled in gilt with faded ink title, headcap chipped, worn at extremities, with the contemporary ownership inscription of Ann Elliot on the front pastedown. 12mo (170 x 100 mm), attractive engraved frontispice and pp. [vi], 212, engraved title-page vignette, tear to p. 85, through text but with no loss, The scarce first edition of this delightful collection of moral tales, attributed to the prolific children?s writer Richard Johnson. Illustrations by Bewick were added to the second and subsequent editions, of which there were many, including four in America, in Philadelphia, Wilmington and New York. The author is given on the title page as ?by the editor of the Looking Glass for the Mind?, which was printed by Newbery in 1787 and which was actually by the French children?s writer Arnaud Berquin. It was translated by ?J. Cooper?, one of the many pseudonyms of Richard Johnson. In his preface, the editor praises Berquin and other foreign writers whose books for the juvenile market ?merit the highest encomiums? and who have humbled themselves to deal in ?the plain language of youth, in order to teach them wisdom, virtue, and morality? The text comprises some 23 short stories, of varied length, style and setting, including such titles as ?Juvenile Tyranny conquered?, ?The Book of Nature?, ?The happy Effects of Sunday Schools on the Morals of the rising Generation?, ?The Happy Villager?, ?The Indolent Beauty? and ?Female Courage properly considered? Roscoe J39 (1); Osborne II 900.