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Leather bound British Classics ed. Volume 2 only. 1803. Front hinge broken, back hinge cracked, otherwise binding is secure. Gold decoration on sides of covers. Back cover especially has had mold damage at some point. Foxing, age toning Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

1793. J. Parsons. Hardcover/Leather. GOOD Volume III only. Gilt titles. Leather boards and spine. Internally pages are aged but text is still clear, some staining to pages edges. Boards worn, front board partially detached. 6x4

The Idler - By the Author of The Rambler, in Two Volumes - With Additional Essays. TWO VOLUMES in the ONE BOOK (two volumes complete). Parsons's Select British Classics, a well chosen collection of Classical Essays - Vol. XIII. With a total of 103 essays, plus 3 additional essays, as issued. Contains two engravings - being extra title page & plate at p.128 in volume two (plus title page vignette). Each volume with separate title page (volume 1 with the additional extra illustrated title page). Volume one contains half-title page, extra illustrated title page, title page, contents (2pp), advertisements, pp1-148. Volume two contains title page, contents (2pp), pp1-171. "The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, first published in the London weekly the Universal Chronicle between 1758 and 1760. It is likely that the Chronicle was published for the sole purpose of including The Idler, since it had produced only one issue before the series began, and ceased publication when it finished. The authors besides Johnson were Thomas Warton, Bennet Langton, and Joshua Reynolds." Small volume. Printed in England. Bound in full leather (calf), gilt-lettered maroon leather label to spine, gilt-stamped design to spine. NOTE: Front board entirely detached (but present), slight handling wear, some mild marginal ink marks, light foxing, small tear with slight loss (1 x 1.5cm) to top inner corner of half-title page, otherwise a nice clean tight solid leatherbound copy. Internally Very Good. 148pp + iv, 171pp. Uncommon eighteenth-century edition. SB-87.

Tenth edition from 1784 in four volumes I (322pp), II (304pp), III (319pp), and IV (264pp plus index). Originally published in periodical form from 1750 to 1752. Contemporary full leather binding. The title panel is present for only the first volume. The labels denoting the volume numbers are all lost. The spines have some chipping at the top and bottom and a little cracking to the edges with two inches missing from the surface at the bottom of the second volume. The corners are bumped with some rubbing and fraying and there is some light surface wear to the front and rear panels. Name of a previous owner in ink to the front free endpaper of three volumes - Lady Wale of Shelford near Cambridge. There is the bookplate of another family member on the front pastedowns and the name of the original family member who owned the books and a date at the top of the title pages. Lady Wale has also added her name to the title page of two of the volumes. Volume I has a one inch long patch of insect damage at the front with one hole pentetrating most of the way through the book. Pages 73 and 75 have quite long creases to the edges of the pages with a small piece missing from the bottom corner of page 75. Volume II has a narrow strip missing from the bottom of the front free endpaper. Volume IV has small creases to the top corners of a few pages. There is spotting at the front and back of the books and light browning to the pages with some spots and marks in places but the pages are otherwise generally unmarked. Heavy item due to it being four volumes so there will be an additional postage charge for overseas orders.