Published and Sold by Samuel Etheridge Jun'r, Charlestown 1810 - Volume I of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on their works - 432 pages. There is quite a bit of wear on the cover and page edges. In addition portion of the front cover has come loose. However, the pages within are still bound together nicely and the text intact. Milton, Rochester, Stepney, Dryden, King, Halifax, Addison and Sheffield, duke of buckinghamshire are a few of the poets discussed. For a full list click on the table of content photo above. Book is inscribed with the name Nathanial Grenshaw. A brief bio of the author can be read here: Samuel Johnson
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Published by JOHN GRIGG, No.9 N Fourth Street, PHILADELPHIA 1831 - POETICAL WORKS of MILTON, YOUNG GRAY, BEATTIE, AND COLLINS, Complete in One Volume. Sterotyped by J. Crissy and G. Goodman. Personalized with an inscription dated 1846. It reads: Presented to Mrs. R. Smith by her ? friend U.G. Noble (?) June 1846. (click on inscription thumbnail on the right).
Measures 8 3/4" by 5 1/2" and 1 3/4" high. There is significant outer wear on the cover as pictured. Binding is secure and pages inside are clean with the exception of some normal age spotting. Text is complete and perfectly readable. Just inside the book cover there is a small yellow sticker from: Steele and Faxon Booksellers, Buffalo N.Y.
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By the Rev. T.S. Hughes B.D. Late Canon of Peterborough. Volume IV of VII. Published by Bell and Daldy, 186 Fleet Street, London - 1846. A new edition with the author's last corrections and improvements. Printed by Rayner and Hodges, 109 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, London. Condition is solid and very good. Pages within are EXTREMELY clean with marbled edges. Only issue is some aesthetic wear on the outer binding as pictured.
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Victorian Periodicals. TEMPLE BAR, A LONDON MAGAZINE For Town and Country Readers. The Fifty-Fifth Volume, January - April 1879. Richard Bentley and Son, 8 New Burlington Street, Publishers in Ordinance to her Majesty the Queen.
New York: Willmer and Rogers. Paris: Galignani. Kirby and Conlan Bookbinders, Liverpool.
Temple Bar was a Victorian era journal (1860 until approximately 1898) with a strong emphasis on serialized fiction. Binding and cover in very good condition with only normal time-wear. Pages within are clean and intact.
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