Rev William Dodd (32 results)

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 hing…

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 s…

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 a…

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 pl…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dodd's 'Beauties of Shakspeare' is an 18th-century anthology of excerpts from William Shakespeare's plays, compiled by the English clergyman and writer William Dodd. Originally published in 1752, the work was a popular collection intended to make Shakespeare's most notable passages and quotations more…

Condition: Very Good. 1824. Hardback. 32mo. Fine in fine leather covers, with three-banded spine, gilding, and with title on black leather to spine. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear, bumping to corners and a little cracking spine ends. Overship details on front end paper. Toned, gilt-edged pages, however text is crisp…

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…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Published in London in 1809, this is the second edition of this theological work from Rev William Dodd. William Dodd (1729-1777) was an English Anglican clergyman and a man of letters. He lived extravagantly, and dabbled in forgery in an effort to clear his debts, and was caught and convicted. Despite…

Condition: Very Good. 1824. Hardback. 32mo. Fine in fine leather covers, with three-banded spine, gilding, and with title on black leather to spine. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear, bumping to corners and a little cracking spine ends. Overship details on front end paper. Toned, gilt-edged pages, however text is crisp…

Leather. Condition: Good Only. Cooke's edition of William Dodd's powerful verses written between his conviction and execution at Newgate Prison, with engravings. Cooke's Edition. In a contemporary full tree calf binding, with gilt to the spine and borders. Marbled endpapers and contemporary blanks. Embellished with an engraved p…

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 thro…

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…

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 te…

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 a…

, 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 fortnig…

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…

Octavo, original sheep, light wear, signature of Nehemiah Halkett dated 1793 on end paper, usual embrowning and foxing, few light watermarks, good. The Preface-Dedication to Joseph Willard, president of Harvard University, was written especially for this edition by the printer Robert Hodge. although there is no date in the impri…

Octavo, original sheep, light wear, corners bit worn, with several signatures on blank end leaves of the Garfield family; the earliest signature being that of Ebenezer Garfield, dated March 28th, 1786, very nice. The preface dedication to Joseph Willard, president of Harvard University, was written especially for this edition by…