Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Samuel Richardson 1689–1761 the English writer and printer best known for his epistolary novels including Pamela and Clarissa had preserved copies of his extensive correspondence with a view to its eventual publication and these paperback
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Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Samuel Richardson 1689–1761 the English writer and printer best known for his epistolary novels including Pamela and Clarissa had preserved copies of his extensive correspondence with a view to its eventual publication and these paperback
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Paperback / softback. New. Samuel Richardson 1689-1761 the English writer and printer best known for his epistolary novels including Pamela and Clarissa had preserved copies of his extensive correspondence with a view to its eventual publication and these volumes published in 1804 contain a biography of Richardson and a selection from his letters. paperback
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Paperback / softback. New. Samuel Richardson 1689-1761 the English writer and printer best known for his epistolary novels including Pamela and Clarissa had preserved copies of his extensive correspondence with a view to its eventual publication and these volumes published in 1804 contain a biography of Richardson and a selection from his letters. paperback
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Paperback / softback. New. Samuel Richardson 1689-1761 the English writer and printer best known for his epistolary novels including Pamela and Clarissa had preserved copies of his extensive correspondence with a view to its eventual publication and these volumes published in 1804 contain a biography of Richardson and a selection from his letters. paperback
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Paperback / softback. New. Samuel Richardson 1689-1761 the English writer and printer best known for his epistolary novels including Pamela and Clarissa had preserved copies of his extensive correspondence with a view to its eventual publication and these volumes published in 1804 contain a biography of Richardson and a selection from his letters. paperback
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Paperback / softback. New. Samuel Richardson 1689-1761 the English writer and printer best known for his epistolary novels including Pamela and Clarissa had preserved copies of his extensive correspondence with a view to its eventual publication and these volumes published in 1804 contain a biography of Richardson and a selection from his letters. paperback
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Paperback / softback. New. Samuel Richardson 1689-1761 the English writer and printer best known for his epistolary novels including Pamela and Clarissa had preserved copies of his extensive correspondence with a view to its eventual publication and these volumes published in 1804 contain a biography of Richardson and a selection from his letters. paperback
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<p>Tan cloth boards with gilt title on the front board. Tan calf spine.<strong> Rebound.</strong></p><p>This chapbook has been beautifully rebound by Mr. Brian Cole.</p><p>A rare juvenile chapbook produced in 1811 by the Edinburgh firm Oliver and Boyd. Out of Oliver and Boyd the firm of Scottish Academic Press SAP was born which the Frost family acquired from the Robert Maxwell estate. SAP still publishes.</p><p>The History of Sir Charles Grandison commonly called Sir Charles Grandison is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson first published in February 1753. The book was a response to Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones a Foundling which parodied the morals presented in Richardson's previous novels. The novel follows the story of Harriet Byron who is pursued by Sir Hargrave Pollexfen. After she rejects Pollexfen he kidnaps her and she is only freed when Sir Charles Grandison comes to her rescue. After his appearance the novel focuses on his history and life and he becomes its central figure. This chapbook published by Oliver and Boyd and is a rendered down edition of the above book.</p><p>Oliver and Boyd was a British publishing and printing firm that traded from 1807 or 1808 until 1990. The firm has been described as a "stalwart in Scottish publishing".</p><p>Building on Tweeddale Court</p><p>The grave of Thomas Oliver Grange Cemetery</p><p>Oliver and Boyd was founded in Edinburgh by two partners: Thomas Oliver 1776–1853 and George Boyd died 1843. The exact foundation year is not known but is believed to have been either 1807 or 1808. The firm operated from the 1820s until the 1970s at the same address in Tweeddale Court near the Royal Mile in Edinburgh the old "Oliver and Boyd" sign remains above the front door of the Tweeddale Court building to this day. It was one of the "auld" firms to survive in the area after the crash of 1825–26. By the 1830s the firm was not only publishing but also printing and bookbinding under the same roof at Tweeddale Court an innovative practice for Edinburgh in that period. By 1836 the firm carried out printing there on a "massive scale". Prior to Oliver & Boyd printing and publishing in Scotland had been a cottage industry with the printing done on wooden presses and it was only in 1800 that the iron press had been invented. In the years 1811–1841 Oliver and Boyd issued a number of catalogues for the firm's juvenile books & chapbooks "selling from a halfpenny upwards" and also printed and published "abridged histories in fancy covers and songbooks". When Thomas Oliver retired and George Boyd died in 1843 the firm remained under family control with George's nephew Thomas Jamieson Boyd being appointed as managing partner in 1843 and then acting as senior partner from 1869 to 1894. In this period the firm gained a reputation in the fields of education and medical textbook publishing and had a strong presence in the British colonial markets. When Benjamin Disraeli visited the firm in 1885 he found the firm did 'everything but making paper'. They were printers publishers and binders. In 1896 Oliver and Boyd was taken over by three "well-established" Edinburgh booksellers George and James Thin and John Grant. In the 1990s after the Frosts had acquired control Dr. Douglas Grant remained as managing editor.</p><p>During the 20th century the firm maintained its reputation as "educational and general publishers of high standing". In 1962 the firm was acquired by the Financial Times group and later Longmans acquired its publishing operations. In 1984 a public library known as the Scottish Poetry Library was set up in what had previously been a storage area of Oliver and Boyd's Tweeddale Court offices. Oliver and Boyd ceased operations in 1990.</p><p>Chapbook frontispiece of Voltaire's The Extraordinary Tragical Fate of Calas showing Jean Calas being tortured on a breaking wheel late 18th century</p><p>A chapbook is a small publication of up to about 40 pages sometimes bound with a saddle stitch. In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Produced cheaply chapbooks were small paper-covered booklets usually printed on a single sheet folded into books of 8 12 16 or 24 pages. They were often illustrated with crude woodcuts which sometimes bore no relation to the text much like today's stock photos and were often read aloud to an audience. When illustrations were included in chapbooks they were considered popular prints.</p><p>The tradition of chapbooks arose in the 16th century as soon as printed books became affordable and rose to its height during the 17th and 18th centuries. Many different kinds of ephemera and popular or folk literature were published as chapbooks such as almanacs children's literature folk tales ballads nursery rhymes pamphlets poetry and political and religious tracts.</p><p>The term "chapbook" for this type of literature was coined in the 19th century. The corresponding French term is bibliothèque bleue blue library because they were often wrapped in cheap blue paper that was usually reserved as a wrapping for sugar. The German term is Volksbuch people's book. In Spain they were known as pliegos de cordel cordel sheets. In Spain they were also known as pliegos sueltos which translates to loose sheets because they were literally loose sheets of paper folded once or twice in order to create a booklet in quarto format. Lubok is the Russian equivalent of the chapbook.</p><p>The term "chapbook" is also in use for present-day publications commonly short inexpensive booklets.</p><p>Chapbooks were cheap anonymous publications that were the usual reading material for lower-class people who could not afford books. Members of the upper classes occasionally owned chapbooks perhaps bound in leather with a personal monogram. Printers typically tailored their texts for the popular market. Chapbooks were usually between four and twenty-four pages long and produced on rough paper with crude frequently recycled woodcut illustrations. They sold in the millions.</p><p>After 1696 English chapbook peddlers had to be licensed and 2500 of them were then authorized 500 in London alone. In France there were 3500 licensed colporteurs by 1848 and they sold 40 million books annually.</p><p>The centre of the chapbook and ballad production was London and until the Great Fire of London 1666 the printers were based around London Bridge. However a feature of chapbooks is the proliferation of provincial printers especially in Scotland and Newcastle upon Tyne. The first Scottish publication was the tale of Tom Thumb in 1682.</p> Oliver & Boyd. hardcover
Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Reproduction of the original: The History of Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson hardcover
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T. Payne et al London. Hardcover. Fair. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Complete 7 volumes. 'The History of Sir Charles Grandison; in a series of letters' by English writer Samuel Richardson author of 'Pamela' and 'Clarissa'. Commonly called 'Sir Charles Grandison' it is an epistolary novel first published in February 1753. The book was a response to Henry Fielding's 'The History of Tom Jones a Foundling' which parodied the morals presented in Richardson's previous novels. The novel follows the story of Harriet Byron who is pursued by Sir Hargrave Pollexfen. After she rejects Pollexfen he kidnaps her and she is only freed when Sir Charles Grandison comes to her rescue. After his appearance the novel focuses on his history and life and he becomes its central figure. Used: grey-blue paper over board covers and browned paper over hinges and spine. Title printed on paper label glued to each spine. Three volumes have lost paper spine coverings the rest spine paper worn top and bottom. All edg T. Payne et al, London hardcover
London: Printed for T. Longman J. Johnson G. G. and J. Robinson R. Baldwin J. Nichols et al. 1796. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated . One of Samuel Richardson's immense epistolary novels complete in seven volumes. The eighth edition of 1796. A set complete in seven volumes of one of Samuel Richardson's colossal epistolary novels following the well known Clarissa and Pamela. The eighth edition of 1796. The History of Sir Charles Grandison was written by Richardson after many of his female friends demanded a morally good gentleman to oppose the characters of Mr Lovelace and Mr B. It was also a response to Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones a Foundling which parodied the morals presented in Richardson's previous novels. Following the heroic acts and life of the fictional character of Charles Grandison. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. ESTC Reference T58986 In a full marbled calf binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a minor rubbing to the spine and extremities. A minor cracking to the front joint of volume I VI and VII. The rear board of volume III is slightly loose may detach with further handling. With a small bookseller sticker to the front pastedown of volume I and a minor inscription by a previous owner to the front blank page of volume II dated 1802. Internally firmly bound. With a minor faint scattered spotting to the occasional leaf particularly to the endpapers otherwise the pages are generally very clean throughout with only a faint tone ageing as usual. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. Very Good Printed for T. Longman, J. Johnson, G. G. and J. Robinson, R. Baldwin, J. Nichols, et al. hardcover
Good. Hardcover. Full brow leather bound cover with gilt stamped spine and boards is worn at the extremities and hinges cracked but clean and in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Lovely dentelles with marbled end sheets and paste downs. Former owners' bookplates affixed to front end sheet and paste down. Pages are lightly toned but clean and very good. 16 engraved plates in very good condition. . . hardcover
London: J. F. Rivington R. Baldwin S. Crowder et al. 1770 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5". Not Stated. A lovely copy of the complete seven volume sixth edition of Samuel Richardson's major epistolary novel. First published in 1753 in 'The History of Sir Charles Grandison' Samuel Richardson tells the story of the exemplary Sir Charles Grandison a wealthy and virtuous man who navigates the challenges of love and marriage with integrity and honour.The book was viewed as a response to Henry Fielding's 'The History of Tom Jones'.ESTC Citation No. T58982With a half title and frontispiece to volume I.A lovely copy of one of English writer and printer Samuel Richardson's major works. He was also known for the works 'Clarissa' and 'Pamela'. Rebacked in full calf bindings with original boards restored. Retaining original endpapers. Externally excellent. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned but generally clean and bright with some heavier spotting to the first and last few leaves of volumes I and II. Very Good Indeed J. F. Rivington, R. Baldwin, S. Crowder et al. hardcover
Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This comprehensive collection of novels by Samuel Richardson includes the popular titles Pamela Clarissa Harlowe and Sir Charles Grandison. The work is prefaced by a memoir of the author's life providing further insight into his insp hardcover
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