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Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1853. Brown cloth binding with blind stamp and gold title and author. 944pp. Engraved frontis of Jonson. Light general wear, spine ends frayed with small loss. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A New Edition.. Hardcover. Good.
THE WORKS OF BEN JONSON. With a Biographical Memoir by William Gifford by Jonson, Ben - 1860
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THE WORKS OF BEN JONSON. With a Biographical Memoir by William Gifford
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London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860. Pp. viii, 88, [1]-819. Frontispiece portrait, additional engraved title-page with vignette. From the library of Canadian literary giant, Robertson Davies, with his armorial bookplate to front pastedown, and his handwritten note on front blank beneath the ink signature, E.M. Larking: "(of Melbourne Australia, this was her book & when I inherited it I had it rebound by Hugh Anson-Cartwright of Toronto as a tribute to her - my wife's grandmother.) Signed "R" in upper left of note. Green morocco, gilt-stamped tan leather spine label, E.M.L. gilt-stamped direct to lower spine. Previous owners signature and embossed stamp to title-page of C.C. Reeves, M.D. . Hard Cover. Very Good. Stout Octavo.
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Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1855. Hardcover. Very good +. Quarto, 944pp. A crisp, clean, sound copy, very good or better, with some mild scuffing to extremities. Publisher's full tooled brown morocco, stamped in darker brown, and with title in gilt. A nice, sturdy copy of a book usually found abused. Handsome, gift-quality copy of this complete volume of the English playwright-poet's works.
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944pp. Publisher's dark brown Morocco with title in gilt. All edges gilt. Some rubbing and wear to edges. Rubbing and light crease along outer joints. Corners bumped and worn. Marbled endpapers. Light tanning to pages from age but overall in wonderful condition.
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London: Printed for J. Walthoe, M. Wotton. . . J. Tonson, and W. Innys, 1716. 6 volumes. Early antiquarian edition. Adorned with frontispieces and plates, including a frontispiece portrait in Volume I. 8vo, bound in fine period polished calf in very pleasing and handsome style, the spines with raised bands and lettering on contrasting red and green morocco labels in gilt, board edges tooled in blind, edges sprinkled red. A fine handsome set and rare in this condition, the joints sometime refurbished. The text blocks are only very lightly mellowed and the extremities lightly rubbed. SCARCE EARLY PRINTING HANDSOMELY BOUND. A beautiful presentation of one of the English language’s greatest writers. Jonson of course is most remembered for his plays and poetry. His first play to be produced “Every Man Out of His Humour” featured William Shakespeare in its cast. Along with Jonson’s great body of work is William Gifford’s memoir, a selection of Commendatory Verses on Jonson written…
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