Letters from John Price Antiquarian Books

London: Sold by T. Cadell..., 1771 - 1772. 3 volumes. 12mo, 158 x 97 mms., pp. xii, 176; [[ii], 151 [152 blank, 153 - 167, 168 blank]; [xii], 176, attractively bound in red morocco, with gilt roll borders surround a panel with gilt ornaments at each corners, spines ornately gilt to a lyre motif, black leather… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Printed in the Year 1770. Small 8vo (in 4s), pp. [iv], 199 [200 blank], including half-title, contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; front joint cracked and tender, rear joint rubbed, top and base of spine chipped. With the contemporary inscription "Thomas Browns/ Book" on the title-page and the armorial bookplate of Chas. Laudos [?] Pole on the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1932, 1954. FIRST EDITIONS. 3 volumes. 8vo, pp. xxxii, 532; [vi], 498, 8vo, pp. xxxii, 532; [vi], 498, portrait frontispiece in each volume, original cloth. A very good set, with the autograph of A. M. Kinghorn, Scottish literary scholar and editor, in volumes 1 and 2, and the following inscription… Saber más sobre este artículo

London Printed by Charles Rivington, For John Rivington..., 1760, 1765. FIRST EDITIONS. 3 volumes. 8vo, pp. xcix [xcx Errata], 326; viii, 439 [440 Errata, 441 - 444 adverts]; xxxviii, 297 [298 blank], O1 in volume 2 in cancelled state, contemporary calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels; lacking the engraved portrait of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Glasgow, Printed by J. and M. Robertson, 1792. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 604, contemporary calf, morocco label; lacks all before title-page, horizontal tear in title-page from inner margin but not reaching fore margin, rear cover detached, top and base of spine chipped, top and base of front joint cracked. For this edition, there is a… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Printed for J. Bew..., 1781. Small 8vo, pp. [ii], vii [viii blank], 222, contemporary calf, red leather label; top of spine chipped with small portion of panel missing. Combe apparently claimed credit for the work later in his life, though the letters are sometimes thought to be genuine ones by Thomas Lyttelton, the second… Saber más sobre este artículo

Glasgow: Printed by J. and M. Robertson, 1792. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 604, with pp. 279 - 302 misnumbered as 179 - 202, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spine, red morocco label; upper front joint slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, binding a little dried and rubbed. The anonymous editor observes in the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Lewes: Sussex Records Society, 1984. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. xxxix [xl blank], 326, 4 illustrations on 2 leaves, original cloth, fine copy in very good dust-wrapper.

London: Printed for Richard Phillips..., 1805. 5 volumes. 12mo, pp. xx, 271 [272 blank]; [iv], 235 [236 blank], iv, 300; [iv], 344; iv, 286 [287 - 288 adverts], engraved portrait of Wilkes as frontispiece in volume 1, engraved facsimile in volume 3, engraved folding facsimile at end of volume 4 and at end of volume 5,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1976. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 24 [25 - 26 blank, 27 limitation notice, 28 blank], including half-title, original blue printed wrappers. A fine copy. Handset and printed by hand by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press. Edition limited to 125 copes "of which 100 are for sale". "This… Saber más sobre este artículo