Diary Late Dodington by Dodington George Bubb, First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. PP:xv, 502, (i)adv. Contemporary full calf; a little rubbed; very good copy. Size: 8 1/2 X 5 1/2 Inches.(22 x 14 Cms.).

Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. DISBOUND TEXT (No covers). (Original leather spine with title label still attached). Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Most suitable to rebind.

First Dublin Edition. in contemporary calf, joints cracking at head of spine, red morocco label lettered in gilt, with the contemporary heraldic bookplate of John Wallis. 12mo, xiv, 346, Dodington left all his property to his cousin, Thomas Wyndham of Hammersmith, who in turn left it all to Henry Penruddocke Wyndham. In addition to the diary, it included a vast collection of Dodington?s private correspondence. Wyndham, a native of Compton Chamberlayne near Salisbury, also published a translation of the entries for Wiltshire in the Domesday Book, hoping that it might pave the way for a more general history of Wiltshire, for which he put up some money. ESTC t144754.

8vo, pp. xv, [i], 506; bound without the final advertisement leaf; contemporary tree calf, rebacked preserving most of the original spine. Bookplate of John Cator. First edition. This copy belonged to John Cator, a wealthy Kentish timber merchant and property developer. Cator (1728-1806) is important in the history of outer London for his transformation of the Blackheath and Beckenham area in the later 18th century; but he is also known to Johnsonians for his close friendship with Samuel Johnson and the Thrale family. As Boswell recorded, he was a co-executor with Johnson (and three others) of Henry Thrale's estate in 1781, and it has been reported that Johnson advised Cator on the books he should buy for his library. Whether true or not, Johnson admired Cator for his 'rough, manly independent understanding' (Hill-Powell IV 313), and Cator was on the committee supervising the erection of Johnson's monument in St Paul's in 1791.