The Lives Of The English Poets (Two Volumes)
by Johnson, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: F. C & I. Rivington. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Volume One: 1" split to leather at tail of front spine joint. 3/4" split to leather at tail of rear spine joint. Gutters split. Volume Two: 3/4" split to leather at tail of front spine joint. 2 x 1/4" insect holes at head of rear gutter, through to page 523. ; Two Volumes. Quarter-leather binding with gilt lettering on spines. Volume One: [vi], 528 pages + frontis. Volume Two: [vi], 543 pages + frontis. Page dimensions: 130mm x 67mm. Selected contents: Milton; Butler; Rochester; Waller; Dryden; Halifax; Parnell; Addison; Prior; Granville; Somervile; Swift; Pope. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7788
- Title
- The Lives Of The English Poets (Two Volumes)
- Author
- Johnson, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- F. C & I. Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1820
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....