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Norwalk, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1993. Cloth. Fine/Fine, slipcase. Thomas Rowlandson. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Heritage Press edition. A Fine copy in Fine slipcase. 8vo., illustrated. Beige cloth, housed in publisher's tan slipcase. The spine is lightly sunned. The Heritage newsletter, SANDGLASS, laid in. A Fine copy in Fine slipcase.

Very Good. Very Good fine hard cover in fine slipcase, both with the slightest shelf wear This is no 1840 out of an Edition of 2000 published by the Limitied Editions Club It follows the text of the third edition of the year 1786 Ships from Hawaii.

Limited Editions Club. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Half-leather -- red leather over marbled paper boards. Small ding on top edge of rear cover, otherwise fine. Slipcase is very good with just a trace of soiling. Copy #1422 of 2000 limited. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 327 pages .

Bloomfield, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. First edition thus. Hardcover. 327 pages. Number 1338 from an edition of 2000 copies printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. Features marginal comments and markings from a copy annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi and illustrated with contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson. A fine copy in marbled paper covered boards with leather spine and top edge gilt and in a near fine slipcase with a tiny chip to the paper label. No dust jacket. An attractive edition of this classic.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. Very Good. London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. First Edition Thus. Octavo; Vol I lv + 583pp; Vol II xi + 570pp; Vol III xi + 568pp; Vol IV xv + 469pp; Vol V xiii + 432pp. Fifty-three engravings of portraits, dwellings, locales, manuscripts, and signatures dispersed throughout the five volumes; two-color fold-out map in Vol IV. Appendices in every volume. Index to the Life and the Tour in Vol IV; index to the Johnsoniana in Vol V. Teal boards with cloth spines in ivory; gilt spine lettering. Text block top edge roughly trimmed, other edges untrimmed. All panels lightly soiled, without prominent stains. Back panel of Vol V has residue of shelf-adjacent paper volume on upper third. All spines sun-baked to the point of brittleness, with some resulting vertical segments missing, and chipping/tearing to spine crowns and feet. Spine lettering unaffected, for the most part; now protected in mylar. All joints and hinges good. Text blocks unmarred and unmarked, with many… Read More