Letters Two Volume Set by Junius (5 results)

Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition Thus. *** PLEASE NOTE *** The bookshop is currently closed for holidays. Items can still be ordered, but will not be dispatched until we reopen on Saturday 6th June. Many thanks for your patience. *** Complete two volume set. Full tree calf leather bindings. Mottled spines with gilt ruled compartments, green morocco author and volume labels, gilt palm ornament to centre of compartments. Gilt hashed board edges. Cracking to front joint of Vol. I. Both volumes have worming: Vol I with holes to foot of spine, trails to final blank and rear endpaper and a single hole to final 100 pages, text is slightly affected to some pages; Vol II with trails to both endpapers and to upper margin of first few pages. Light water stain to some pages in Vol. I. Both volumes have occasional pencilled margin markings. A few marks and holes to rear endpaper in Vol. II. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper in both volumes. Another owner's name to upper margin of title pages, dated 1808. ESTC: T11017. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 4.25 x 7 inches (10.5 x 17.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 12mo. [3], xii, 263; viii, 315.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. 2vol.set: HBs full leather w/red&gilt-ribbon bkmk; rubbed w/edges&corners worn; hinges cracked; some bleed-thru on endpapers; some lt.tan w/clean,tight pgs. With the aim of exposing the injustices of the administration, and highlighting the rights and freedoms of British individuals, Junius attacked many individuals highly respected with inth Whig firmament.

Leather. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. New Edition. Tan leather w/black title box on spine; some rubbing to covers, light toning to pages, owner's name inked on flyleaf, title page of vol. 2 has couple tiny chips to top edge, interior hinges of vol. 1 just barely starting to crack, some page corners creased; nice copies for being over 200 years old.

Leather. Condition: Very Good +. 1st American edition. 1st American edition. 2 volume set, complete. A Very Good + set. 12mo., [Vol.1] xxv, 216; [Vol.2] 215 pp., illustrated with an engraved title page in volume 1, and an engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 2. Bound in full calf, with title and design on the spine in gilt; single line rule on the boards. All edges marbled; end papers similarly marbled. Spines a little darkened. Moderate edge wear. Previous owner's neat signature on the title page of volume 1. Another previous owner's signature cut away from a blank end paper in vol. 2, the same end paper removed from vol. 1. Text lightly tanned, with the occasional minor blemish. Hinges and joints very secure. Letters of Junius (or Junius: Stat nominis umbra) is a collection of private and open letters critical of the government of King George III from an anonymous polemicist (Junius) claimed by some to be Philip Francis (although Junius' real identity has never been verified).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Original full-leather covers w/ gilt title on red leather spine labels. Bindings scuffed w/ wear to extremities. Moderate foxing throughout both volumes. Notes and owner's stamp on endpapers; bookplate on front paste-downs; owner's name at top margin of title pages. Volume 1 has a dampstain to top corners of last several leaves; top corner of rear blank endpaper torn off. Both volumes illustrated w/ b/w plates.