The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. A Tale. de JOHNSON, SAMUEL

Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. London: Printed for John Sharpe, 1817. 184 pages. Contents are complete with very light staining throughout. Preliminary pages are detached up to the title page but included. Title page has some penning from a previous owner. Final page has a closed tear. Binding is full leather with rubbing and wear to extremities. Overall a fair copy with good contents. .

Chiswick: From the Press of C. Whittingham, 1822. 144pp. Full brown leather binding with gold ruled border, front and back and gold stamped edges and spine, with 3 raised bands, black leather spine label with title. Marbled endpapers. 1/2 title and title page with engraving. Light general wear, 1/2 title and title page foxed, short owner's note in pen on front endpaper. Photos on request. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Hardcover. Good+.

Printed by C. Whittingham.for J.G. & F. Rivington.[and 6 others], London, 1816. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fair hardcover, no DJ. Covers show heavy edge rubbing and scuffing. Previous owner's name on inside cover, pages are tanned and foxed. Hinges cracked but binding intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

London: John Sharpe, 1828. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good+. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Second engraved title page and 3 additional engravings. Light shelf/edge wear, light rubbing at hinges, spine label missing, second ffep lacking, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Full light brown leather binding, gilt decorative elements, in blind decorative elements, marbled endpages, marled textblock edges. 12mo. 182pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

Philadelphia: John J. Yardley, 1822 This hard cover is in FAIR CONDITION. Spine retaped, foxing, some pages loose. 189pp bound in marbled boards with leather corners, illustration of half title page with engravings throughout. Penciled note inside front cover mentioning that "It is affirmed that Johnson wrote this work to pay for the funeral expenses incurred by his Mother's death".

London,: C. Whittingham,, 1822. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Sixteenmo. 215pp. Bound in contemporary half-leather over marbled boards. Light rubbing to covers, illustrated title page slightly foxed, otherwise very good indeed. owner details to second endpaper.

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New York: Blakeman & Mason, 1864. 12mo, pp. 206; engraved added title page, 5 plates; original green blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine; spine slightly cocked, ownership signature dated 1912 on front free endpaper, contemporary signature on title page; unobtrusive manuscript notes in margins throughout, occasional soiling, else very good and sound. Fleeman 59.4R/248.

London: John Sharpe, 1822. Quarter Leather. Near Fine. 12mo. 184pp. Illustrated with engravings by Richard Westall. Bound in quarter brown crushed morocco over marbled covered boards, raised bands spine, title and top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.

London,: C. Whittingham for Rivington, Longman, et al.,, 1801. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in later half-leather over patterned boards, very good indeed. Bookplate to pastedown. Owner name to recto of frontis.