Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2010
ISBN 10: 1165901722 ISBN 13: 9781165901722
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: NEW.
Published by P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, New York, 1937
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. Deluxe Edition. Near fine condition faux black leather boards with gilt front cover lettering, embossed front cover decorative symbol, elaborately decorated gilt front cover perimeter decoration and gilt spine lettering. Includes Introductory Notes. Edited by Charles W. Eliot, L.L.D. Light rubbing at the lower two inches of the front outer spine edge. (see photographs). All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is exceedingly tight and square. (see photographs). Contents included are: The Defense of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney; On Shakespeare by Ben Jonson, On Bacon by Ben Jonson; Of Agriculture by Abraham Cowley; The Vision of Mirza by Joseph Addision; Westminster Abbey by Joseph Addison; The Spectator Club by Sir Richard Steele; Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation by Jonathan Swift; A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding by Jonathan Swift; A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet by Jonathan Swift; On the Death of Esther Johnson [Stella] by Jonathan Swift; The Shortest-Way With the Dissenters by Daniel Defoe; The Education of Women by Daniel Defoe; Life of Addision, 1672-1719 by Samuel Johnson; Of the Standard of Taste by David Hume; Fallacies of Anti-Reformers by Sydney Smith; On Poesy or Art by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen by William Hazlitt; Deaths of Little Children by Leigh Hunt; On the Realities of Imagination by Leigh Hunt; On the Tragedies of Shakspere by Charles Lamb; Levana nad Our Ladies of Sorrow by Thomas De Quincey; A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley; and Machiavelli by Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Published by Grolier Enterprises Corp, Danbury, CT, 1980
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: UNSPECIFIED. Near Fine in decorative boards. No printing indicated. ; Harvard Classics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by G. G. J. and J. Robinson; and J. Walter; E. Curll, London, 1787
1/4 leather. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Second Edition. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; London, G. G. J. Robinson, etc . ; and E Curll; : 1787 & 1718. An unusual combined edition with complete text of the 2nd edition of Sidney's Defence of Poetry [Poesy] printed in 1787 (paged v, 144 p. ; 19 cm. ) bound together with the 1718 English language translation by Hayes of Addison's "Dissertation upon Famous Latin Poets." The Hayes text formed the 2nd part of the original Addison volume and retains it's separate 1718 title page and pagination ([25] - 53, and 3 pages of postscript. ) The Addison text lacks his original Latin portion which comprised pages 1 - 23. Bound in early 19th century 1/4 leather and marbled paper boards. Tooled gilt "chain" rules to spine and Sidney volume title in gilt to spine. Attractive circular cut-paper bookplate with monogram H. L. Is mounted to front pastedown. Extensive biographical notes regarding Sidney are penned in a very close and exceptionally neat hand at front pastedown, endpage and verso. Binding snug; contents neat and clean with just a few mild instances of foxing. Margins still generous. Light rub to paper boards at edges and leather at corners. Well preserved copy; attractive and neat. VG.