Adventurer Volume Third (7 results)

Leatherbound. Condition: Very good. Fourth Edition. Numb. 7I Tuesday, July 10, 1753 to Numb. 105 Tuesday, November 6, 1753. 298 p. 17 cm. Leather. Spine head chipped, corners worn. Ink signature from 1766 on front free endpaper, some dampstains.

Leatherbound. Condition: Fair. New edition. Vol. 3 only: 298, [2] p. 18 cm. Engraved frontispiece. Full leather with gold trim. Hinges cracked, corners and edges worn, spine ends chipped. Labels on front pastedown. Ink signature on title page.

Leatherbound. Condition: Fair. New edition. Vol. 3 only: 298, [2] p. 19 cm. Engraved frontispiece. Full leather. Front board coming loose and rear board tender. Spine ends chipped and corners worn. Ink signatures and doodles on blank endpapers.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. 298pp. Cracking to hinges but still well bound. Interior in nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions. Picture of this book available.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. No DW. Old full leather. ?Contemporary armorial bookplate of Townley featuring their arms (Argent, on a fesse sable, a cinquefoil or, in chief three mullets of the second) in wreaths of flowers etc but not their name. From the library of Town Head House (Windermere). Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 249pp, leather covered boards, worn to the edges of the spine. No title page but the engraved frontispiece illustration by A Scott is dated 1793. Previous names in pencil, the front gutter weak but holding, a couple of light spots of foxing to the preliminary pages, otherwise internally very clean. Vol II covers numbers 71 to 105. The Adventurer was the bi-weekly successor to The Rambler. The essays were written by Dr John Hawkesworth, with considerable assistance from his friends Dr Johnson and Joseph Warton.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Good +. Fourth Edition. Full leather with some edge wear. Title faded on spine. Binding is tight.