Description: The Annual Register, Or A View of The History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1782. First Edition Author: Various Authors 8vo.(5" x 8.25")1783. London. Printed for J. Dodsley. Full speckled tan calf. Spine with six thick fancy gilt rule bands, second compartment lacking a leather title block, title now in blindstamp, gilt vol# to fancy gilt framed circle of black leather in fourth compartment, fancy gilt corners and centered gilt device to all others, fancy gilt rule to head and foot of spine. Fancy gilt rule to board edges. This volume comprises an account of books published this year, with Poetry, Miscellaneous Essays, Useful Projects, Essays on Natural History, State Papers, Characters, A Chronicle, History of Europe, and much more. Truly a contemporary look into the year as a whole from a European point of view. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, spine rubbed, scuffed, lacking title block and part of vol#, head of spine chipped with small loss. Intermittent foxing throughout. Still, a beautiful informative book. From the Web: DODSLEY, JAMES (1724-1797), bookseller, a younger brother of Robert Dodsley [q. v.], was born near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire in 1724. He was probably employed in the shop of his prosperous brother, Robert, by whom he was taken into partnership-the firm trading as R. & J. Dodsley in Pall Mall-and whom he eventually succeeded in 1759. In 1775 he printed 'A Petition and Complaint touching a Piracy of "Letters by the late Earl of Chesterfield,"' 4to. Dr. Joseph Warton told Malone that Spence had sold his 'Anecdotes' to Robert Dodsley for a hundred pounds. Before the matter was finally settled both Spence and Dodsley died. On looking over the papers Spence's executors thought it premature to publish them, and 'James Dodsley relinquished his bargain, though he probably would have gained 400l. or 500l. by it' (Prior, Life of Malone, pp. 184-5). A list of forty-one works published by him is advertised at the end of Hull's 'Select Letters,' 1778, 2 vols. 8vo. In 1780 he produced an improved edition of the 'Collection of Old Plays,' 12 vols. 8vo, edited by Isaac Reed, who also edited for him anew, two years later, the 'Collection of Poems,' 6 vols. 8vo. He was a member of the 'Congeries,' a club of booksellers who produced Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets' and other works. Dodsley was the puzzled referee in the well-known bet about Goldsmith's lines, For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day, which George Selwyn rightly contended were not to be found in Butler's 'Hudibras' (Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. iv. 61-3). T Eighteen thousand copies of Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' were sold by him in 1790. We are currently putting all 5000+ titles online, but if there is a specific title you are looking for, please reach out to sidekerbookselleratgmail.com, we may just have it! Free shipping via USPS for United State purchaser within the continental U.S., International shipping determined using USPS Priority Express, DHL, FedEx, or Parcel Monkey. Sonny Ideker Bookseller is located within City Antiques in Historic Roswell, Georgia at 700 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, GA. 30076. We would love to have you visit or email us at sidekerbookselleratgmail.com for specific wants or needs, thanks! Find Us On: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Sonny-Ideker-Bookseller-Rare-Antiquarian-Leather-Vellum-Bound-Books-100068669041560/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SonnyIdekerBookseller/about Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonny_ideker_bookseller Flickr: https://flic.kr/ps/2v6pn4 Website: https://sonnyideker.weebly.com/ Antique Books, Old Leather Book, Old Vellum Book, Decorative Binding, Antiquarian Book, Vintage decorative, Ancient Leather, Rare Books, Decorative Books, Decorative Leather, Beautiful Decorative Book That Rare Book Guy Sonny Ideker City Antiques & Interior Arts Georgia Antiquarian Booksellers Association Colette French Pastries
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