Rev William Dodd (35 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.

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.…

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.…

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.

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.

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

Hardback. Condition: Good. 11cm x 7cm approx. Tan ribbed cloth boards with gilt embossing to spine. Shakesperare portrait frontispiece. Boards slightly grubby and wrinkled, bumps to corners. Pages gilt edged. Eps tanned but text in good clean condition. Handwritten paragraph from Hamlet on RFEP.

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).

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.…

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 accessible to the public. Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, Birket Foster and others. 1879 Cover worn with bumping to spine edges and corners of boards. Back hinge beginning to break. Former owner's name in ink on front free endpaper. Pages foxed with occasional small marks but otherwise in clean sound condition.…

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 and clear and remains a fine copy. . . . .…

Pp.380; extra-engraved title with vignette & frontispiece by Heath after Corbould; lightly spotted; a very good copy of this attractive gift book edition in apt contemporary full crimson morocco, elaborately blocked in blind, lettered in gold, all edges gilt & gauffred; slightly rubbed at edges. Endpaper inscription to 'N.H. Reeve from his sincere friend R.A. Seymour C[hrist's?].H[ospital?]. Aug '57.' Bindingted Photographs Literature. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. C 1918 (from inscription) Very Good Condition plus. Uncommon in this kind of binding (suede cover) to see good bright intact cover. Internally Very Good too. Neat inscription.

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.…

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 a public campaign for a Royal pardon, in which he received the assistance of Samuel Johnson, he was hanged at Tyburn for forgery. The books are bound in old full leather bindings, 8.5 inches tall approx. The leather bindings have some general rubbing wear and marks, a noticeable bump to lower corner of rear board of volume three, minor cracking to joints, all boards well attached, internally some cockling to paper to a few pages else contents generally nice and clean. This is a heavier item, overseas shipping costs will be slightly higher than the basic standard one kilo quote.…

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 and clear and remains a fine copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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, 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.…

Cooke's Edition: Hardback, half-bound in brown leather, gold titles on black spinal label, gold decs., marbled bds., 90 x 145 mm., 200g., 125 pp., 2pp. advertisement in front of book, dated 1777, engraved tite-page, frontis (with foxing) and tail-piece at end, light shelf wear, no dw., Good copy.

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 portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title page, and two further engraved plates. Collated, plate facing p. 60 has been incorrectly bound upside down, however complete. Dated from imprints to the plates. Pagination error as issued. Bound with a reissue of the advertisement orginally prefixed to the first edition (1777), a Life of the Author, and a selection of other found papers and letters written by Dodd in prison. William Dodd was an English Anglican clergyman and a man of letters. He lived extravagantly, committed forgery in an effort to clear his debts, and was caught and convicted. Despite a public campaign for a Royal pardon, in which he received the assistance of Samuel Johnson, he was hanged at Tyburn for forgery. These verses were composed while in Newgate Prison and feature his reflections on the prison systems of the 18th century. In a contemporary full tree calf binding, with gilt to the spine and borders. Externally, front board is at risk of detaching with further handling. Rear joint is strained. Rubbing to the extremities, with loss and lifting to the spine. Remnants of label and marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with the odd spot. Pink ink line made to the outer margin of p. 60. Plate facing p. 60 has been incorrectly bound upside down. Good Only. R. Corbould; Ridley (illustrator). book. …

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. "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.…

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.…

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.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publication: London, Bickers and Son, 1878 Formatting: 8vo, pp. x, 353, [18]. Condition Report: Very Good. Bound in exquisite full crimson morocco by Bickers, featuring five raised bands to the spine, rich gilt floral tooling to the compartments, and double gilt fillet borders with corner fleurons to the boards. The leather remains wonderfully supple and the crimson dye rich, showing only minor rubbing to the extremities, particularly the spine tips and corners. The boards are tight, and the hinges remain perfectly sound. All edges are gilt; the text block is securely bound and the gilt edges remain bright. Inside, the stunning combed marbled endpapers and elaborate gilt dentelle turn-ins are in fine order. The text pages and the mounted permanent photographs are remarkably clean and free from pervasive foxing, retaining a beautiful crispness. A remarkably well-preserved, tight, and attractive example of this finely bound volume. Catalogue Note: The book is a handsome nineteenth-century edition of Rev. William Dodd's classic anthology of Shakespearean extracts. This particular issue is distinguished by the inclusion of twelve striking "permanent photographs" (Woodburytypes or carbon prints) reproducing historic engravings from the celebrated Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, adding a rich visual dimension to the text. The volume is wonderfully presented in a superior presentation binding executed by Bickers. Their bindery's craftsmanship is on full display with the vibrant crimson morocco, intricate gilt dentelles, and elegant marbled endpapers. Such high-quality, bespoke retail bindings were a hallmark of Bickers & Son, catering to discerning Victorian bibliophiles. Copies of this specific illustrated edition, particularly those surviving in such exquisite, unrubbed fine leather bindings, are scarce on the open market, making this an exceptional addition to any library of Shakespeareana or collection of fine bindings. First published in 1752, Rev. William Dodd's The Beauties of Shakespeare was a landmark anthology that brought the most powerful, poetic, and memorable passages of William Shakespeare to a broader reading public. By isolating these "beauties" from their original contexts and organizing them by theme, Dodd created an accessible, highly influential digest that shaped the popular understanding of Shakespeare for generations. This splendid nineteenth-century edition pairs Doddâs timeless selections with dramatic photographic reproductions from the famed Boydell Gallery, uniting the literary and visual grandeur of Shakespeare's enduring legacy. Boydell Gallery (illustrator).…

, 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.…