Rev William Dodd (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. In green cloth with black and gilt decorations and all page edges gilt, no date mentioned, front cover loose, bookplate or the like removed from front pastedown leaving glue residue, front endpaper missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. No date but circa 1840's. Miniature book in brown cloth. Light rubbing. A few short pencil marks to titles in front.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Smaller, sturdy book, orante gilt flowery design to all of spine and nearby sides, smooth ivory-colored boards with beautiful pattern of violets, all edges bright gilt, pattern inside covers and adjacent end papers, 268 pages. Very slight surface wear to tips, lightly browned stain at top front, nick at spine top edge. Near Very Good. 0.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 351 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Cracking to hinges, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Heavy bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends, causing cloth to fray. Book has noticeable forward lean, with heavy tanning overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket.

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. FIRST EDITION. A clean, tight copy in worn quarter cloth with patterned boards. Surface wear and edge-wear, corners bumped. Hinges a little weak. Neat name and date on reverse of ffep.337pp. with index. A Fair copy only. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall.

One Quarter Leather. Condition: Good. Quarter leather over marbled boards. The boards show some edgewear with rubbing. The binding is sound.

Disbound. Condition: Poor. A New Edition. 486pp. A reading copy or for rebind. No cover but content still well bound together. Interior has occasional stains but most of it very clean, plates very stained. Starts with marbled end-paper, ends with blank.

Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good (stained covers). No Jacket. Not Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition of This Edition. Please Email for further details. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Early edition of this much reprinted collection, in exceptionally good internal order with clean crisp and bright pages from front to back, bar a little marking and former owner's details to title page. Externally, full leather binding is shaken and heavily worn with loss to spine at head and foot. 32mo. 353pp + index and publisher's ads.

new edition 1/4 cloth Nice copy 16 mo. xxix + 337pp., index, Nice copy in red 1/4 cloth over marbled boards. Owners' bookplate on front paste-down. A nice copy.

Hardcover. 16mo (3x5). Early printing by in Lansingburgh (NY) by William Disturnell in 1821. Leather binding over boards. Excerpts, passages and quotations from most of Shakespeare's plays (excluding Merry Wives of Windsor), organized by Comedies, Historical Plays and Tragedies. Excerpts are in chronological order within each play, with given titles commenting on their subject matter and providing some commentary (e.g. "Lady Percy's Pathetic Speech to her Husband," "Anger," "Harmless Innocence," etc.). Index at back. Signatures of previous owners on inside cover and front flyleaf in ink. Good condition: front cover detached but present; foxed.

Frontispiece. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. First published in 1752 in London. First published in 1752 in London. Frontispiece. 1 vols. Sm. 12mo. Jaggard p. 561 for the first edition, p.565 for this edition Original green cloth. Rubbed, head of spine chipped, fore-edge of one page cut away, some foxing.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. viii 352pp, full green morocco with red spine label (heavily worn to edges and scuffed), engraved frontispiece, paper lightly browned, small 8vo (6.5x10cm).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New ed. in full, ribbed cloth binding with decorative gilt spine title, all edges gilt, pale yellow endpapers and no inscriptions. Minor use with corners rubbed and RFEP gone. Illustrated title page and b/w frontispiece.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 378pp. 21 engravings or embellishments by various artists. Wright, Stephanoff, Corbould,and Westall and engraved by Heath, Rolls, Bacon, Greatbach, Engleheart, and Chevalier.A fine English binding with gilt decorated boards and spine in gilt. Lacking the front free end-paper. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS.

Condition: Good. Good. Illustrated with 12 mounted photographs after illustrations from the Boydell Gallery. Original green decorative cloth, rubbed and corners worn. inside front hinge starting. Inside mostly clean and free of foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Undated c1880s. Hardback copy in full green leather boards with blind stamped borders, raised bands and gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 351pp + 16pp book catalogue to rear. Steel portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare with tissue guard, full page illustrations throughout. Marbled endpapers, gold gilt page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, some wear to board and spine edges. (58/2).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. Later Edition. Bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, Very Good, gilt lettering at spine worn away, boards rubbed, edges soiled, widely scattered light toning. 5 1/4" x 3 1/8". [3], vi-x, 353, [19] pages (Index). With four illustrations, one at title pg. and one at head of each of the three Parts - Comedies, Historical Plays, and Tragedies. An uncommon edition. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Book.

Sir John Gilbert, R.A. Birket Foster and others (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Hardback First Edtion Thus published 1879 Beautifully bound in full rich green cloth with ornate gilt and black printed pictorial to the front and spine The binding is still quite clean and bright although there is a little loss to the extremites minor abrasion to the front and light fading to the spine All edges are gilt and still fairly bright The black endpapers are dulled with slight cracking to the front internal gutter Previous owners inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper Light toning to the pages with the occasional thumb mark and spot of foxing the pages otherwise are clean throughout and beautifully illustratednbsp pp x 371 Overall a lovely copynbsp. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. "The following ballads were written between twenty and thirty years past, at various times, for the entertainment of a Society of Archers, called the Royal Kentish Bowmen, at their occasional meetings on Dartford Heath, Kent. His Royal Highness the present Prince Regent, patronized it; and being thus distinguished, it became privileged to assume the additional appellation of Royal." 175pp. Ex library with four small stamps. Bequest label of R.W.Walsh 1887.

Leather. Condition: VG. Various (illustrator). 1st. 12mo. Burgundy leather with elaborate 19th century gilt decoration and embossing. All edges gilt. 21 engravings or embellishments by various artists. Leather slightly worn at extremities. Sporadic foxing throughout. Bookplate to ffep. Nice item.

Most Attractive 12 mo. Third Edition with Additions. With A n Account of the Author, and a List of his Works. xxxvi + 208pps. Full Contemporary Tree calf, original leather spine label. (spine joints a little tender) Portrait Frontis. (corner waterstain) 'John Powell' Book-plate. Scarce.

Condition: Fair. Boston (1783) Robert Hodge at his Office, in Marshall's Lane, near the Boston Stone. To which are added, his last prayer, written in the night before his death and other miscellaneous pieces. Octavo, 232pp., full leather. Fairly Good, original boards, final text page torn and sewn together, moderate toning in text throughout, covers worn, backstrip quite rubbed and worn with some edge chipping from backstrip, lacks free blanks.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A very scarce work written by Rev. William Dodd. A large proportion of this work was written during his incarceration. Third edition, with additions. In a full tree calf binding, with a red morocco spine label. Previous owners ink inscription to the front pastedown and front endpaper and also to verso of the title page. Written by the Rev. William Dodd, during his time in prison prior to his execution. Dodd was imprisoned on the charge of forgery, and was hanged at Tyburn in 1777. This particular work features his reflections on the judicial and prison systems of the 18th century. In addition to this volume features Dodd's last prayer, written that before his death, and a selection of his other miscellaneous works. In a full tree calf binding. Externally sound, with heavy rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and also to the extremities. Surface cracks to the spine. Heavy rubbing to the rear joint, with a large crack to the front joint. Light offsetting to both the front and rear pastedown and endpapers. The front hinge is very lightly strained. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd ink spot throughout. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, original calf, front cover detached, bookplates, light wear, spine ends bit chipped, name on end-paper, else nice. The Rev. Dr. Dodd is best known today for his forgery of Lord Chesterfield's name on a bond, for which Dodd was tried, convicted, and hanged. Dr. Samuel Johnson was among those who valiantly attempted to mitigate the sentence. First edition. Uncommon. Because of the value of this item, extra postal insurance or registry fees may be required.

, title page, iii, 232 pages, errata at end, includes his last prayer written in the night before his death, and other miscellaneous pieces, was publicly hanged at Tyburn for forging a bond of £4,200, Samuel Johnson got a petition for his release to no avail, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully" (S. Johnson) First Edition , scuffed at corners and spine ends, upper joints splitting but holding firm, neat owner's details at upper edge of page i, water stain at rear, text legible throughout, in good condition , full tree calf, gilt titles on red leather spine label Octavo Hardback ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes, octavos, contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt extra, joints breaking but cords holding, light wear, the Easton Neston copy, with Sir Thomas Hesketh's contemporary armorial bookplate in each volume, minor foxing, quite decent. Although mainly by Dr. Dodd, other contributors of the various prose and poetry include Duncome and Thomson. The very rare first (and only) edition. Because of the value of this item, extra postal insurance or registry fees may be required.

Full calf. Condition: Good. Johnson's Edition. 12mo. [1], xxiv, 25-177, [1] page blank, [2]. Frontispiece engraving of Dodd. Marbled brown calf leather binding with red leather title label and gilt lines on the spine. Hinges and joints repaired. Light toning to pages. First published in England, 1777. Shaw & Shoemaker 10303.