Kettel Samuel (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Volume 1 only. Book exhibits all the flaws expected in a well used book of its age. Heavy wear and bumping to corners, edges and spine ends. Title plate on spine is chipped but still readable. Cloth spine is faded and worn. Heavy soiling to covers. Previous owners signature with the date 1830 on ffep. Rough cut page ends are yellowed and soiled. Heavy soiling and foxing on inside front and back covers. Hinges are cracked but still firmly attached. Yellowing and some foxing present one pages. Text is still clean and very readable. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never ex-lib unless explicitly described as such.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1762 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 32.

Three volmes, octavos, original red morocco gilt, extremities worn, few joints cracking, minor scuffing, pencilled signature on blank end-paper of first volume and initials in ink on that title-page, all edges gilt, very nice set. Clearly following the lead of Johnson, Ellis, and Campbell in their anthologies of English poetry, this collection begins with Cotton Mather, Michael Wigglesworth, and their colleagues, and continues along roughly chronological lines to include the very early poetry of Longfellow and Whittier. The sole entry under Francis Scott Key is The Star Spangled Banner, Poe's Tamerlane receives a very early mention on page 405 in the list of works by American Poets, which has been called the first bibliography of American poetry. First edition. Uncommon, especially in contemporary red morocco. This set will require extra postage, with the exact amount depending upon the destination.