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The Novelist's Magazine, London: Harrison and Co., 1780-1789. 23 volumes, 8° (210 x 125mm.), 23 engraved title vignettes, 322 plates (occasional marginal browning and spotting), contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt in 4 compartmets, red morocco lettering-piece (rebacked, spines lightly rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance: "The Gift of C. Ellis Esq to his dear wife Maria 1843" (inscription on front free endpaper).
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). Works of Samuel Johnson, London: for J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Son., T. Payne and Sons (and others), 1787. 11 volumes, 8° (218 x 130mm.), engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson (occasional spotting or browning), contemporary tree calf, green morocco lettering-pieces and red morocco numbering pieces (spines and extremities rubbed, a few covers partially loose). Provenance: Library bookplate of West Dean College (dated in black ink 1821).
With 8 other works, English literature and history, in 21 volumes including T. Smollett's The History of England, from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second (London, 1804, 5 vols.). (55)
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). Works of Samuel Johnson, London: for J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Son., T. Payne and Sons (and others), 1787. 11 volumes, 8° (218 x 130mm.), engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson (occasional spotting or browning), contemporary tree calf, green morocco lettering-pieces and red morocco numbering pieces (spines and extremities rubbed, a few covers partially loose). Provenance: Library bookplate of West Dean College (dated in black ink 1821).
With 8 other works, English literature and history, in 21 volumes including T. Smollett's The History of England, from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second (London, 1804, 5 vols.). (55)
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