Books, miscellaneous literature: Johnson (Samuel, MA, Hon. D...

Books, miscellaneous literature: Johnson (Samuel, MA, Hon. DLitt., 1709-1784) et al., The Idler, by the Author of The Rambler, Vol. 2 only (being nos. 53 to 103) of 2, London, J. Rivington et al., 1790, 16mo, iv + 267pp, engr. frontis., bound full calf, gilt lines, gilt lines and titles to black reserve to spine; Addison (Joseph, 1672-1719), Vols 2 & 4 of 5, London, J. & R. Tonson, 16mo, armorial bookplates Upton Jennings, bound full calf 5 raised bands, gilt patterns and titles to red reserved to spines: Vol. II: 1776, Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of the Rt. Honourable Joseph Addison, 334pp engr. frontis.; Vol. IV: 1767, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, etc., in the Years 1701, 1702 and 1703, 303pp, engr. frontis. (front board parting); Cromwell (Lord Protector Gen. Oliver, MP 1599-1658), Letters and Speeches with Elucidations by Thomas Carlyle, vol. 3 only of 4, Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1861, 18mo, x + 444pp, marbled edges and endpapers, bound half calf with gilt lines over maroon boards, 5 raised bands to spines, titles to red reserves (upper reserve lifting); Tucker (Col. John Montmorency, 1780-1852) The Life of the Duke of Wellington, Compiled from Despatches and other Authentic sources and Original Documents, London, James Blackwood, n. d. (1880), medium 8vo, viii + 444pp, many illus., bound green boards, black lines and gilt titles to spine; Fűlöp-Miller (Réné, 1891-1963), Leaders, Dreamers & Rebels, An Account of the Great Mass-Movements of History and of the Wish-Dreams That Inspired Them, trans. E & C Paul, London, 1st edn., George G Harrap, 1935, medium 8vo, x + 464pp, bound blue cloth (worn & faded) gilt titles to spine; Kingsley (Revd. Professor Charles 1819-1875), Westward Ho! Or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, London, Charles H. Kelly n. d., 12mo, 506pp, col. frontis., colour illus., bound red boards, black titles to green reserve, spine similar, bkplt. school prize to Dorothy Mountmney Jan. 1907; Kingsley (Revd. Professor Charles, 1819-1875), Yeast: A Problem, 4th edn., London, Macmillan, 1897, 12mo, xvii + 272pp, marbled edges and endpapers, bound half green Morocco over marbled boards, 5 raised bands gilt patterns and titles to spine; Wood (Revd. J. G., FLS), Strange Dwellings: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, new edn., London, Longmans, Green, 1873, 12mo, xii + 411pp, woodcut frontis and numerous other illus., marbled edges and endpapers, bound full calf, gilt lines, 5 raised bands gilt lines and titles to black reserve to spine; Voltaire (Jean Francois Marie Arouet de, 1694-1778), The Age of Louis XIV, transl. Martyn P. Pollack, preface F. C. Green PhD., London, Heron Books n. d. (1961), xviii + 475pp, illus., patterned endpapers, tan boards gilt lines, gilt titles to spine, silk marker; Ferris (George T.) The Great Composers, German, French and Italian, ed. Mrs. William Sharp, London, Walter Scott, 1887, 12mo, xvi + 334pp hand-cut pages, marbled endpapers, bound half tan Morocco over lime boards, 5 raised bands and gilt titles to spine; Somerset Maugham (William, CH FRSL, 1874-1965). Of Human Bondage, London, William Heinemann, New leather-bound edn., 1936, 16mo, 648pp, buff endpapers, half leather over marbled boards (lacks back-strip) (12) ***Upton Jennings of Fordwich, Kent (1751-1785) was a Mayor of Canterbury. Son of Anthony Jennings of Fordwich, he married Mary Freeman at All Hallows, Barking in 1774 and left a daughter, Margaret, Mrs. John Friend.

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