Manuscripts and documents: their deterioration and restoration
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, [1976]. Second edition, second printing, 8vo, pp. xxvii, [1], 84; original brown cloth gilt; boards stained, spine faded, very good. More
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, [1976]. Second edition, second printing, 8vo, pp. xxvii, [1], 84; original brown cloth gilt; boards stained, spine faded, very good. More
Canterbury: James Simmons, 1804. 12mo, pp. xviii, 305, [13]; engraved frontispiece, 3 plates including folding map, half title and title page printed in red and black; recent mottled calf over marbled boards, red gilt morocco spine label, textblock uncut; illustration from the original decorative binding mounted to front pastedown, early..... More
London: John Bell, 1791. 8vo, pp. ix, [10]-83, [1]; engraved plate, lacking frontispiece, ESTC T32444; bound with: Moore, Edward, The gamester, London: John Bell, 1792, pp. 84, frontispiece, one plate, ESTC T40410; Colman, George, The jealous wife, London: John Bell, 1792, pp. v, [6]-104, frontispiece, plate (torn with minor loss)..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1855. First edition thus, 8vo, pp. 75, Van Duzer 227; bound with: Thackeray, The Book of Snobs, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1855, pp. iv, 169, [2], Van Duzer 15; bound with: Thackeray, The Fatal Boots, and Cox's Diary, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1855, pp. 100, Van..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. First edition, demy 4to, pp. xvi, [2], 506; 78 plates (4 folding and in color); light foxing in the margins, but generally a very good, sound copy or better in original gilt-stamped decorative red cloth, t.e.g. More
Philadelphia: V. F & M. F. Harrison, no. 27 South Eighth Street, 1845. Bust-length mezzotint portrait (approx. 22½" x 16½" overall; image size: 12" x 9¾") taken from a daguerreotype; lightly foxed, several short creases and breaks in the margins; all else very good. Includes a facsimile of his signature..... More