Johnson Samuel Rev (32 results)

Paper. Condition: Good. Potter was Bishop of New York. Published by the Alumni of the Seminary. 40 pp. Some light chipping on edges of printed decorated paper covers, and on spine.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Everyman's Library 856. Edited by Philip Henderson. In original, unclipped, jacket in a protective sheet and with general rubbing, creasing, and toning to the spine. Bound in red cloth over boards with bronze lettering on the spine. Solid and square with minor edge wear. Blue ink signature on half-title. The interior is clean, clear, and crisp. Pages:(2) (12) 278 (2) (8 ads) Dimensions:7(5/15) x 4¾ x 1.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Outers are tidy but spine has creasing. Copy has small label residue on FFE otherwise very clean and free of inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cliff Johnson (illustrator). 1st edition. unpaginated, tall quarto hardcover in blue cloth, gilt titles and embossed images to front and spine. moderate wear top front and bottom rear edges, pages open easily at a few points, point of binding starting toward middle of block yet binding remains solid, text clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. Original gilt-decorated, blind-embossed cloth. Covers just a little bumped or rubbed at some extremities. Endpaper hinges cracked, with label partially removed from one endpaper. Name of former owner.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Decorative 3/4 brown leather binding with tooled bands on the spine; gilt lettering and gilt motifs on the spine; gilt page edges; marbled boards and marbled end pages. Leather is still supple but edges are worn; the first few pages including the title page are torn and loose. Very handsome edition to a leather collector's library.

Gebunden. Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnExcerpt from The History of the Yorubas From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British ProtectorateWhat led to this production was not a burning desire of the author to appear in print - as all who are well acquai.

Quarter leather and marbled pa. Condition: As Described. No Jacket. British Poets. An unusual small volume being a compilation of works printed and published between 1806-8 by W. Suttaby and others, containing works written by various British poets, namely: - The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. London, Printed for W. Suttaby, Stationers Court, and C. Corrall, 38, Charing Cross. 1806. 70pp;- The Poetical Works of James Hamond and Lord Hervey; with Biographical Sketches of the Authors. Published by W. Suttaby, Crosby and Co. and Scatcherd and Letterman, Stationers' Court. 1808. 65pp, with frontispiece;- Poems Upon Several Occasions by the Rev. John Pomfret. With the Life of the Author. Printed for W. Suttaby, Stationers' Court. 1807. x + 110pp, with frontispiece;- The Poems of Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, by F.W. Blagdon, Esq. London: Published by W. Suttaby and B. Crosby, Stationers'-Court. 1806. 64pp, with frontispiece.- The Poetical Works of William Collins with the Life of the Author and Critical Observations by Dr. Langhorne. London: Published by W. Suttaby and B. Crosby, Stationers'-Court. 1806. 94pp, with frontispiece. Black quarter-leather and marbled paper. Raised bands, gilt-blocked title and decoration. Marbled page edges. Measures 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" x 1". Scuffing and wear to binding but reasonably clean. Rubbing at edges and on hinges and chipping to paper. Bumped and torn corners. Binding reasonably firm. Page edges contain some scuffing and marking, and a degree of fading to marbling pattern. Inscription to free endpaper prior to Goldsmith work and signature to endpaper prior to Johnson. Some page corners dog-eared. Top edge of page 65 of Hamond and Hervey has had the top piece cut off. Some foxing, staining and other marking throughout, with a little ink blotching to initial front endpapers of book, but no underlining, marginalia, etc. 70, 65, 110, 64, 94 pp. 1806-8. n.

, 354 pages, frontispiece portrait, contents at rear of each section, volume 21 of the works of the English poets by Samuel Johnson First in this edition , small loss at head of spine, some wear to joints, lacking small volume label, a little rubbed, 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:

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback copy in dark green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 832pp. Untrimmed page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, small tear to tail of spine, hinges slightly visible to front/rear endpapers. (58/4).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. illustrated frontispiece page of Dr Johnson & title page + ii + 284 pages ( most pages in two parts , then the book with most pages un-numberd. Condition Full leather Hardback binding, very good, some minor rubbing, gilt embossed title to black leather to Brown leather binding, 3 small bits leather to spine missing/damaged. Contents mostly very good, clean & tight, blank page before frontispiece with a number of owners & note in ink, the very rare odd minor marks, 2 pages opposite each other with small ink mark/stain. This is a small/pocket book, not what we would call a miniature book. Size is 14.6 x 9.4cm approx. This 1796 7th edition is a rare title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. 832 pages. Abridged from the Rev. Todd's corrected and enlarged quarto edition by Alexander Chalmers F.S.A. Original full-calf binding. Skillfully re-backed saving the original spine and endpapers. Internally in excellent condition. Previous owner's name in neat, tiny manuscript to the head of the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Hardcover, illustrated with b/w photos. Light fraying to the spine ends and the corners, hinges a bit tender but sound, else a very good copy with clean contents. Bound in blue cloth, gilt stamped lettering. No dust jacket.

Leather. Condition: Good. H. Adlard (illustrator). A revised edition of a popular reference work for scientific terms, including thousands of newly inserted articles, bound in full calf. A new edition of the Scientific and Literary Treasury, a comprehensive glossary of scientific and literary terms, written by English writer Samuel Maunder, and revised by English naturalist James Yate Johnson. In full calf. Contains an engraved frontispice of Gutenberg surrounded by renowned intellectuals, drawn by Henry Adlard. Most famous for his Biographical Treasury and Treasury of Knowledge, with this work being perhaps the most renowned of the many dictionaries he published. The new edition revised by Johnson includes thousands of newly inserted articles, and hoping to be more scientific while retaining its function as a popular reference. In full calf. Externally, the odd mark to boards, and rubbing to joints and edges. Calf spine and rear board loose from main text. Slight creasing to the spine, and bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. End papers are generally bright and clean with a couple of small marks. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound, with a gap between pp.818-819. Pages are mostly bright and clean, with the odd spot to first couple and last leaves. Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Uncommon. Decorative full-leather binding with ornate gilt designs and gilt lettering on the covers and spine; gilt page edges. Frontis illustration of Rev John Wesley with tissue guard; illustrations of each writer with tissue guards. Binding tight and leather still fresh and supple. Boards with wear to the edges; pages with light age toning; page corners bumped; interior clean.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Dark blue cloth, stamped in gilt and black. All edges gilt. Boards have edgewear, especially at edges of spine. Samuel Colt was the famous gun inventor, and Caldwell was his son.

orig. cloth. Reprint. 22x14cm, lv,684 pp., Weighs 1000 grams. Some light spotting to top page-edge. VG., dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Collated correct, this book resulted in the anonymous author (Rev. Samuel Johnson) being heavily fined and imprisoned for writing and publishing a scandalous and seditious book. The text block is complete but the top board is disbound and the rear board hangs by one string. Contemporary note on the front paste down refers to the punishment of its author. Last page repaired and with sellotape burns on title page and boards. ESTC citation R22222, ESTC System No 006088600.

First Edition. A scarce early edition, published in Scotland. 1st thus. With four page introduction by McNicol 'Observations on the life of Johnson' Small format, worn leather on boards.Worn to spine, particularly at top edge. Contemporary name in ink to title page. Some closed tears to first two preliminary pages, including the frontispiece of Johnson. Bookplate removed from front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. A fairly scarce edition of Chalmer's extensively revised text of Johnson's famous dictionary. Bound in full leather boards - front cover completely detached, splits to the spine, but stitching still holding, and some wear to the boards/board extremities - the covers need some TLC. Internally there is a lot of browning/foxing to the endpapers front and back, o/w the text block is very good and clean, with just the odd spot here and there. A former owner's name and date in pencil on the second free endpaper, can be erased If desired? Abridged from the Rev. H. J. Todd's Corrected and Enlarged Quarto Edition, by Alexander Chalmers, F. S. A. Opposite the Title page is an advertisement stating that "This volume contains every word in Mr. Todd's edition of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary; and above Fourteen Thousand more than were given in Dr. Johnson's Abridgement. The whole forms the most extensive vocabulary ever published, and, in consequence of the additions introduced by Mr. Todd, it becomes a complete glossary of the early English writers." . The book really needs rebacking due to the covers/spine - but is overall good, and internally most is very good - This edition is scarce. See Images. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall Unknown but probably the Ist Edition in this form?.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Small book with marbled boards, leather corners and spine. Frontispiece of Johnson. Rubbed at corners and edges. The pages are clean, tight and bright. Bookpate on FEP. Rare edition. Used.

LEATHER BOUND BROWN. Condition: FAIR. THIRD ED. Shelf wear. Front and back hinge cracks. Gilt title on spine, faded. Pages browning. Page edges browning, foxing, soiled. Covers scuffed and scratched. DATE PUBLISHED: 1810 EDITION: THIRD ED 274.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later American edition. 12mo. 15.5 cm x 9.5 cm. [5], 8-295, [7] pp. Lacks the half-title. Original endpapers bound in the rear. Recently rebacked red morocco over contemporary red morocco boards with a recent black morocco label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges marbled. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Samuel Johnson. With a continuation of the European chronological table to (what was then) the present period, with a new and complete American chronology, containing an account of events from the first European arrival to North America up to events in 1818. Produced from the last English edition. Long's stereotype edition. Evans 44472. Not in Sabin. ODNB, Pat Rogers, "Johnson, Samuel". Evans records a miniature dictionary printed in Boston in 1810, and there are a few unrecorded, earlier American miniature dictionaries. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary was an indelible influence in English lexicography. After its publication, it was recognized as an authoritative guide to English vocabulary, replacing Nathan Bailey's dictionary. His dictionary captured all kinds of English words, from the crude to the sophisticated. Its importance in the history of understanding the English lexicon cannot be overstated. A charming copy of a landmark publication in the English language. A Very Good copy with the corners rubbed through; leaves show minor foxing and a few have a tiny burn mark to the fore-edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover Octavo no dust jacket. half leather, black label, gilt lettering, marbled boards, 504 pp, very light foxing to endpapers, spine sun faded, inscription in pencil on front endpaper Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Printed fro Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London, etc, etc, 1818, 1st edition thus. This edition " with numerous corrections, and with the addition of several thousand words, as also with additions to the history of the language and to the grammar by the Rev H.J. Todd". Four volume set in matching modern half morocco with black cloth boards. Five raised bands to spine. Gilt lettering on black leather patch to compartment two. 11.25ins x 9ins. Volume one (ABA - CZA):frontis portrait, title page, 2pp dedication, 4pp advertisement, pps iii to cxxxv, (i), A to Cz unpaginated. Volume two (DAB - HYT). Volume three (JAC - Quo). Volume four (RAB - ZOO). Frontis portrait is foxed. Title page and first page of listings for volume three lacks the bottom third of a page. Otherwise a very attractive and comprehensive set. Nb very heavy set, expensive to post overseas.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Revised and Enlarged Edition. xlv, [3], 556; [6], 543; [6], 541; [6], 557; xxvii, [3], 596; xii, [2], 496 pp. 8vo, burgundy cloth, gilt spine titles and ruled head and tail. Frontispiece portraits to all vols. Vols 1-4 are 1934 first printings of the Powell revised edition. Vols. 5 & 6 are 1964 Second Edition with errata slips. Vols 1-4 show some light rubbing to extremities, vols 1& 2 fore edges dampstained. Volumes 5 & 6 are inscribed by the preeminent Johnson/Boswell collector Mary Hyde: ?For the Courage Library in rememberance of our unforgetable visit - Mary Hyde and Lila Tyng, 19 September 1974.? Hyde's collection, begun with her husband Donald Hyde and continually expanded until her death in 2003, has been described as "just one of the world's great archives of eighteenth-century English literature, with more than 4,000 books and 5,500 letters and manuscripts. Still more important, it is the world's best collection of documents relating to the life and work of Samuel Johnson" - Adam Kirsch. The collection was placed in Harvard's Houghton Library in 2004. In the preface to vol. VI, Lawrence F. Powell writes, "My friends in America have been generous in their aid. I mention, in particular, Dr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde, whose library at Four Oaks Farm, Somerville, New Jersey, is the Mecca of All Johnsonians.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lot of 36 titles from the Arno / New York Times Series The American Negro, His History and his literature. All told, the volumes are clean and well kept. From the home of a well regarded historian of Black studies. Also was a tobacco smoker, and that combined with age has led to occasional toning / darkening of the tan cloth part of these hardcover volumes - though without any consistency, it is present to some degree on nearly all. Faint odor as well, especially for those of sensitive nose, though to this seller it is not egregious. Besides that, the condition is pretty solid on all. Binding are all quite strong, sturdy, tight , square. No markings were found in any of the books, and no other damage to interiors at all. One volume has some fraying to the edge of the cloth of the front, and some of the volumes have lesser or greater degrees of rubbing, scuffing, dustsoiling, but all told clean beyond the toning. Uncommon to find so many in one place. Shipping will be extra ! pickup available in NYC. TItles are: Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising Rev. William J. Simmons The Anglo-African Magazine Black Manhattan James Weldon Johnson Thoughts on African Colonization Wm. Lloyd Garrison Cheerful Yesterdays Thomas Wentworth Higginson Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro samuel ringgold ward race adjustment the everlasting stain kelly miller recollection of seventy years bishop daniel alexander payne behind the scenes thirty years a slave and four years in the white house elizabeth keckley the suppressed book about slavery reminiscences of my life in camp susie king taylor the underground railroad william still negro population in the united states 1790-1915 the facts of reconstruction john r. lynch some recollections of our antislavery conflict samuel j may shadow and light and autobiography mifflin w. gibbs the colored patriots of the american revolution william c. nell philosophy and opinions of marcus garvey reminiscences of levi coffin captain canot, an african slaver brantz mayer the key to uncle tom's cabin harriet beecher stowe john brown and his men richard j hinton new world a-coming roi ottley the freedmen's book l. maria child the voice of the negro 1919 robert t. kerlin the free negro family e. franklin frazier an appeal in favor of americans called africans l. maria child first days amongst the contrabands elizabeth hyde botume the negro at work in new york city george edmund haynes, ph.d. the education of the negro prior to 1861 c.g. woodson the black phalanx joseph t. wilson the life and adventures of nat love the underground railroad from slavery to freedom wilbur h. siebert twentieth century negro literature edited by d.w. culp the new negro an interpretation edited by alain locke.

1p., 8vo. Bifolium. Twenty-seven lines of text. Good, on aged paper, with minor traces of previous mounting. Addressed, with black ink circular postmark ('20 | NO'), on reverse of second leaf, ''To Mr Ellis | att Mr Taverners in Thread-needle Street'. The letter begins: 'Nothing can yield Persons in our Stations greater Satisfaction, than to be entertain'd in our silent Retirement with some harmless amusements from a facetious & learned Correspondent. for without these while we were endeavouring with ye uttmost Diligence, to know ye World, as some People please to call it, we shouldn't att last know whether wee were in it or not; But like ye People that never go beyond ye Smoak of ye Town Chimneys, stare att every thing wee see, & imagine ye Rest of Mankinde to be a new Creation.' He explains that he has resolved to 'preserve a Correspondence with those I knew before', and to 'form a new one with those whose extensive Character only made 'em known to me'. He hopes to pay Ellis 'in Current Coin; which I hope you will comply with, & speedily lay your demands on' Murdin. Between 1740 and 1759 Murdin published his valuable 'Collection of State Papers relating to affairs in the reign of Elizabeth from 1571 to 1596: transcribed from original papers and other authentic memorials left by W. Cecill Lord Burghley, and reposited in the library at Hatfield House.' Johnson stated, in Boswell's Life, that the 'most literary conversation' he ever enjoyed was at the table of 'Jack Ellis, a money scrivener behind the Royal Exchange', at whose house he at one point dined twice a week.

Autograph Note in the third person. On one of 11 x 20 cm slip of paper. In good condition, lightly aged, with stub from mount adhering to reverse. Reads: 'Mrs. Piozzi's Coms. And if Dr. Perney is disengaged this Eveng & would like to hear Mr. Yaniewitsh play on the Violin She should be happy in his Company to Tea - - - and it would be very obliging in him to bring the Viol D'Amore with him. | Streatham Park | Friday 24.' Perney was domestic chaplain to the Earl of Coventry. The violinist Felix Janewicz (17621848) was a Polish exile from France who made his London debut in February 1791. From the celebrated collection of Baron Houghton (in Lot acquired at Chiswick Auctions).

First Edition. First Edition. Very Good condition. Owner signature (dated 1874). Rare in the original edition. Episcopal priest, seminary professor. Seabury was professor at General Theological Seminary, editor of THE CHURCHMAN, rector of the Church of the Annunciation, and grandson of Bishop Samuel Seabury. Samuel Seabury (1801-1872) From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Samuel Seabury (1801-1872) was an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman, grandson of Bishop Samuel Seabury. He was born at New London, Conn., was ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal church (1828), was editor of The Churchman (1833-1849), rector of the Church of the Annunciation in New York City (1838-1868), and professor of biblical learning in the General Theological Seminary (1862-1872). He published: The Continuity of the Church of England in the Sixteenth Century (1853) Supremacy and Obligation of Conscience (1860) American Slavery Justified (1861) The Theory and Use of the Church Calendar (1872) Discourses on the Holy Spirit (edited by his son, with memoir, 1874).