Thoughts Prison by William Dodd: First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New Edition. 146 pp + 4 pages of index, xviii / 148 pp, engraved vignette title page to each part, bound in full brown calf, gilt decorative borders to covers, title and gilt ornaments to spine. Leather rubbed and worn with superficial damage, front edge of backstrip splitting, spine ends and corners a little scuffed, vignettes a little spotted pages clean and firmly held.…

Hardback. Condition: V.g. 1st Edition. [2], xvii, [1], 212, [3] ads, Original grey/blue boards with paper label to the spine. Weak rear joint but complete. Dodd was hanged in 1777 for forgery and these jottings were written on reflecting upon his fate.

12mo, full leather, lacks upper cover, spine with some library markings and chipping, 232pp. Text block age-browned. First American Edition.

Both of poor Dr Dodd*s classics are here printed between one set of covers, illustrated with seven steel-cut engravings on heavier paper stock, designed by R. Corbould and engraved by W. Hawkins and C. Warren, plus portrait frontispiece engraved by Ridley. Dodd, a respected minister, was executed in 1777 for forgery. A rare item in good condition. 3-3/4 x 6, 1st volume is 135 pp + 4 pp index, 2nd volume is 125 pp, color-marbled endpapers, full-page steel engravings plus misc small b/w embellisnments Good Plus, worn corners, rubbed boards, light foxing to frontispiece of each volume. Contents tight & clean, no writing or marks, overall excellent condition for its age Small hardcover in stippled brown leather boards w gilt border design; spine nicely re-covered in decorative violet/gold tape Cooke*s Edtion, presumed 1st printing of this dual-volume edition.…

1st US edition (Evans 16261). viii, [9] - 232 pp. 12mo, in 4s. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4" A Good copy (joint leather split, held by cords/chipping at spine ends/eps browned, with preliminary front blank detached). Period brown half-calf with marbled paper boards. Black leather spine label.

8vo in fours, pp. [ii], iii, [i], 72, 81-206, [2], [207]-232, [1] advertisements; title page a little foxed, some leaves cut rather short at the foredge (e.g. F3, pp. 37-8 and N3-4, pp. 101-4), but the text all present; bound in early 19th c half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. First edition. William Dodd had been hanged on 27 June, after a very public campaign for clemency, and the public was naturally very interested in his final days. As is well known, Samuel Johnson had attempted to save his life, and had written papers for him when he was in prison, but none of those are in fact present in this edition. The book was edited by Weeden Butler (1742-1823), preacher at the Charlotte St Chapel in Pimlico. Fleeman, Bibliography of Johnson, 77.6WD/S/29 (p. 1320). …

, title page, iii, 232 pages, errata at end, includes his last prayer written in the night before his death, and other miscellaneous pieces, was publicly hanged at Tyburn for forging a bond of £4,200, Samuel Johnson got a petition for his release to no avail, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully" (S. Johnson) First Edition , scuffed at corners and spine ends, upper joints splitting but holding firm, neat owner's details at upper edge of page i, water stain at rear, text legible throughout, in good condition , full tree calf, gilt titles on red leather spine label Octavo Hardback ISBN.…