18th-century English literature
Collection of library sets
£479
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Pope, Alexander. The Works in Verse and Prose. London: for J. Johnson [and other], 1806. 10 volumes, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, half-titles, engraved portraits;
Idem. The Works. Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1767. 6 volumes, 12mo, contemporary tan sheep, engraved plates, loss to a few spine-labels;
Mirror. The Mirror. A Periodical Paper, published at Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780. London: for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1794. Tenth edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, contemporary streaked calf;
[Hawkesworth, John, Samuel Johnson, & others]. The Rambler. A New Edition. London: for Silvester Doig, 1793. 4 volumes, 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, smooth spines gilt in compartments;
[Johnson, Samuel]. The Idler. By the Author of the Rambler. A New Edition. London: for J. Cuthell, 1795. 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary marbled calf, smooth spines gilt in compartments;
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets … A New Edition, Corrected. London: for Nichols and Son, 1816. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, volumes 1 and 3 lacking numbering-pieces;
Jones, William. The Works. With the Life of the Author by Lord Teignmouth. London: for John Stockdale, 1807. 13 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, spines ruled and decorated in gilt, engraved plates, frequent Persian text, volume 5 lacking label and with longitudinal crack to spine, volume 7 with wear to head of spine and upper fore corner of front board;
Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de. Memoirs … Translated from the French. London: for A. Millar [and others], 1757. 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf;
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, 1811. 12 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, volumes 9-10 lacking spine labels;
Burns, Robert. The Works. London: for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. Second edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, volumes 1-2 lacking spine-labels.
The lot not collated, sold as a collection of bindings (62)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.