Laughing Philosopher, First Edition (12 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First UK Edition. BW3 - A hard cover library rebound withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition with no dust jacket. The words FIRST PUBLISHED and the year appear on the copyright page with no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in plastic laminated purple and white paper covered boards with minor overall shelf wear with some light yellowing of the outside paper edges plus there are two closed tears (about 0.75" and 0.5") on pages 175/176 plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, the front free endpaper, the title page, and the last page. Illustrated with black and white reproductins. A biography of an important French humanist scholar and writer. Bibliography, indexed, 210p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. 1st Edition. Orange-red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Bright copy. Slighly bumped. No markings. Dust jacket with light chipping at the spine tips. rubbing along the hinges and a couple other slight nicks.

Condition: Good. 1933. First Edition. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning, particularly to spine. Book has slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. The book is Good+ with some spotting to pages and a roll to spine. The jacket has some spotting and some chipping to top of spine, but is Good overall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket 8vo. pp 253. Original publisher's red cloth lettered and decorated black on spine and cover. Very slight fading, very slight rubbing otherwise VG+ in attractive illustrated near VG dust jacket with chips at head of spine, slight wear at lower hinge and slight marks. Front panel of jacket in good order showing a man about to kiss a woman carrying large tea pot.

First Edition. Pp. 282, appendices, index; demy 8vo; dark green boards, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards occasionally a trifle bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; Villiers Publications, London, 1976. First edition. *Essays on Thomas Love Peacock, Gilbert White, Charles Lamb, Edward Thomas, amongst others.

767 p. Frontis. Landscape format, the text printed in two columns. First edition. 14 cms. Calf binding by Riviere with a later reback. Minor wear to edges and corners and light scuffing on the boards. The text block clean and tightwith gilt edges. Armorial bookplate and a pencil note 'From Beckford Library' on the verso of the front endpaper together with a later 19th century signature. It is accepted that the major part of the editorial work was conducted by Thomas Hood, with contributions by Charles Lamb, some of whose work is included. in the contents.

First edition in book form. 12mo., pp.[vi], 244. Ornately engraved title-page with vignette. Running title is 'Momus: or, the laughing philosopher'. Small ink blot to top edge of text block, which is slightly visible at very edge of head margins. Occasional faint marks but very good. Some lightly pencilled notes to the index describing certain pieces as 'good' or 'très bon'. Contemporary calf mottled in a diagonal pattern, neatly rebacked in a lighter brown with recent label, corners repaired, very good. To front paste-down, engraved bookplate with crest of Edward Butler of Carlow; modern bookplate of Peter Stewart Young of Tillingham. Originally printed serially in The Westminster Magazine (1772-1782). Titles include: 'A Ramble through Covent Garden'; 'Humorous description of the House of Commons'; On the present fashionable Mode of Dressing Ladies' Hair'; 'Some curious Specimens of Problematical Oratory' and 'An Attempt to explain what the undefinable Je ne sais quoi is'. ESTC T64895.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 8vo. xii + 340pp + viii ( catalogue dated 1896 ). Tissue guarded bw frontis plate + about 5 other plates. Publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt lettering within double gilt banded area on front, gilt lettering with double horizontal lines on spine. White eps. Neat signature + date " 1907 " on fep. Bump bottom edge of spine, slight knock front top edge, eps + tissue guard foxed, slight occasional foxing throughout else clean & tight. Attractive copy. ***. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Size: 6" x 3 3/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Full gilt-stamped leather over boards, marbled end papers, two volumes in one, both with 108 pages and individual engraved frontispiece plates, Volume I has 4 additional plates, Volume II has 5. Covers are worn, minor staining on text block edges, binding is tight. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 10 oz. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 016227.

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Unamed (illustrator). First edition. An attractive first edition of this scarce work of 'wit', compiled anonymously by Charles Lamb and Thomas Hood, from the Selbourne collection. The work is a selection of satirical pieces with contemporary society and recent history for their subject. Sometimes poetry, and sometimes prose, they reflect a learned, irreverant, and ironical contemporary view on the Britain of the early 19th century. Thomas Hood was a poet and humorist, who wrote for The London Magazine, the Athaneum, and Punch. He is thought to be the principle creative force behind this volume. William Michael Rossetti in 1903 called him "the finest English poet" between the generations of Shelley and Tennyson Lamb was a writer and essayist, and is best known for his Essays of Elia, and a childrens book he wrote with his sister called Tales from Shakespeare. He was friends with the poets Coleridge and Wordsworth, and was a significant member of contemporary literary society in England. It is thought that he assisted Hood in the compilation of the work. This copy contains a number of newspaper clippings inserted, noting that a Mr Walter Jerrold wrote an article in the Cornhill Magazine in 1924, "in which he points out that it contains several of Charles Lamb's essays.and that Lamb wrote the amusing prologue". Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. In full morocco with a gilt motiff to the front board and gilt lettering to the spine. Externally excellent with just a little rubbing to the extremities. With a bookseller's plate to the front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally clean, with light spotting to the first and last few pages as usual. The pages are slightly cockled. Near Fine. book.