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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Winchester, VA: J. Foster, 1818. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Full leather hardcover gilt and label to spine. Front board shows fraying of the leather along the right side fore edge and has a very slight bow. Front and rear end pages and pastedowns show handwriting and signatures and heavy foxing, but no serious hinge cracks. Interior pages show foxing minor to heavy in the quadrant of pages 19 - 22 was not correctly bound, so the bottom half is not attached, causes the pages to stick out on the outside edge. A couple pages had corner folds. Copyright page states second edition.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Winchester, VA: J. F. Archbold, 1816 Book. Fair. Full-Leather. Fair with heavily rubbed corners, edges; moderate foxing; ffep detached but present; good reading copy.

Alex. Hogg & Co, 1795. Book. Good. hardback. new edition. hardback, crown folio, a new edition, undated but we believe it to be 1795, although not credited, it is thought to be largely the work of John Fleetwood. Professionally rebound in brown half morocco, albeit in a rustic manner, burgundy cloth sides, titles in gilt on burgundy labels to spine compartments, family details of a previous owner in a very faded hand to the reverse of the frontispiece, generally a well preserved copy with copper engravings, list of subscribers to rear, 474pp.

Winchester, VA: J. Foster, 1818. Second Winchester edition of this standard Life of Christ, first published in England in 1782. Octavo. Contemporary sheep; 512pp. Non-authorial ink presentation inscription at close of Preface: "Georg W. Heath son of Tomas & Matilda Heath was born May (the) 25th in the year of our Lord A.D. 1843 - his book - give to him by his Parentes [sic]," signed "Isaiah Heath," with annotation "son of James Heath" added in later hand. Mild external wear to boards; moderate staining and foxing to contents; still a tight, Good or better copy of a somewhat uncommon early Winchester imprint.

Printed for Alex. Hogg. London. 1782. Folio.. pp. 428, (iv) Subscriber's List. Frontispiece, 35 plates and map of the Holy Land, all copper-engraved. Later diced calf, raised bands and spine label, marbled end-papers, with the triangular binder's ticket of JEFFERIES & SON, STYLE, BRISTOL, in the inner lower corner of the front board, book-plate of E. A. RAVENHILL, a little rubbing of the spine edges, a small patch of surface abrasion on the lower corner of the rear board, a few small snags and scratches, else a very nice copy. *This binder is not listed in the COLLINS COLLECTION CATALOGUE at the British Library. RAMSDEN notes that the earliest date for his work is c.1840.

Winchester, Va.: Published by J.F. Archbold. J. Foster, Printer, 1816. Contemporary full leather [moderately rubbed] with gilt-lettered spine. 512pp, considerable foxing. A Good or Good+ copy. First printed in London. 1795 printings in New York and Philadelphia were the first American editions. This offering enjoys the distinction of being the first Winchester edition, a later one having issued in 1818. AI 39881 [5]. Haynes 21914. Swem 6686. 675 NUC 0469353 [5].

Folio. New York: Birdsall and Menut, 1795. Folio, 420 pp., 28 plates, lacking final four leaves [list of subscribers?], one plate, and the folding map. Period-style sprinkled calf, backstrip with gilt-ruled raised bands and red gilt-stamped label. Frontis. and title-page remounted, pages moderately foxed and stained throughout, several plates with closed tears, old repairs and occasional loss. § First American edition, published the same year in Philadelphia. Evans 29928. "First published in thirty numbers, of sixteen pages and an engraving, each. The completed volume bearing the date of the first number, although publication was not completed until 1796 or 1797. The Philadelphia edition differs from the New York edition only in its title page." Evans 29927 [Philadelphia edition]. The engravings are from several sources and are signed by Tanner (frontis.), Rollinson, Tisdale, Scoles, and Anderson, among others. The London first edition (1790?), which boasts an even more loquacious title page,… Read More

New York: Birdsall and Menut, No. 80 Cherry-Street, 1795. First American edition. Hardcover. Good +, restored with new leather period spine, new label, original leather covers retained, New old-stock and appropriate endpapers added. Folding map complete but with tears and folds, ancient dampstaining to the last three sheets.. Full brown leather, with red leather name tag on front cover. Frontispiece, title-page, (blank), 2-pp. Preface, folding map, (blank), engraving, pp. 5-428. A TOTAL of 31 engravings, some causing offsetting to the opposite page, some not. Evans 29928. Frontispiece by Tanner, engraved plates and double-page map. Ownership label of Samuel Provoost, D.D. on front cover, as well as his bookplate inside front cover (engraved by Maverick, aka Peter Rushton Maverick). As per Wiki, Provoost was the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, as well as the third (possibly the second) Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA. He was consecrated as bishop of New York in 1787… Read More