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London: W Suttaby. G: in Good condition. Cover rubbed. Previous owner inscriptions feps. Occasional marking and foxing within. 1809. First Edition. Hardback boards on later paper spine. 180mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). iv, 499pp; iv, 503pp. '... have been published between the close of the eighth volume of the Spectator, and the commencement of the year 1809.' Published 1809 & 1810. Heavy set – extra shipping needed for overseas. .

John Sharpe. London. 1805. 2 volumes, of 3, complete in themselves.. pp. iv, xiii, (i), (15)-470. Portrait frontispiece, 4 plates; (iv), 352. Period straight-grain morocco, blind-decorated elaborate vine-leaf borders to both boards. spines with raised bands and blind decorated panels, all edges gilt, book-labels of EDWARD B. TYLOR, a nice set. *These two volumes cover the contributions to the Tatler only. NATHAN DRAKE (15 January 1766 – 7 June 1836), English essayist and physician, was born in York, at the family home in Precentor's Court, as the son of Nathan Drake, an artist. He is known for a book summing up knowledge of Shakespeare available at the time. Drake was apprenticed to a doctor in York in 1780, and in 1786 proceeded to Edinburgh University, where he took his degree as MD in 1789. In 1790 he set up as a general practitioner at Sudbury, Suffolk, where he became an intimate friend with John Mason Good (died 1827). In 1792, Drake relocated to Hadleigh, where he died in 1836. An… Read More

London: Published by Suttaby, Evance, and Fox; Printed by J. Seeley for W. Suttaby, 1814. 5 vols., 12mo, pp. iv, 470; [iv], 352; iv, 401, [1]; iv, vi, 499, [1]; iv, 501, [1] + frontispiece in first volume and 24 further plates. Gathering AA in vol. 3 bound out of order. Contemporary straight-grain dark blue roan, boards bordered with double gilt rules enclosing blind rolls, spines divided by raised bands gilt, 2nd, 3rd and 4th compartments lettered direct in gilt, other compartments tooled centrally in gilt, edges gilt. Some offsetting from plates. Bindings a little rubbed, particularly to joints. An attractive collection of essays by York-born physician Nathan Drake (1766-1836). The first three volumes were first published in 1805.

London: Printed by C. Whittingham for John Sharpe, 1805. Complete in 3 volumes. iv, 470; [4], 352; iv, 401 pp. With three frontispieces. (12mo) 15.5x9.5 cm (6x4"), handsomely bound in period tree calf, gilt decorated and lettered spines. Engraved coat of arms bookplate and gift inscription from1814. First Edition. Handsomely bound study of English periodical literature of the 18th century centering on Addison and Steele, by the essayist and physician Nathan Drake. Decorative bookplate on vol. 1 pastedown, early gift inscription on front free endpaper dated 1814.Condition:Light rubbing to extremities, front joint and hinge starting on vol. 1, but sound, a handsome set; very good.DRAKE, NATHAN (1766–1836), literary essayist and physician, belonging to a Yorkshire family of considerable standing, was born in 1766 at York, where his father, Nathan, was an artist, and where his younger brother, Richard, was afterwards a surgeon. Drake's contributions to general literature consist chiefly of… Read More