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The publisher responsible for Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

Copyright © 2007 Bruce Tober - All Rights Reserved

Robert Dodsley, English playwright and publisher, is also recognised as collector and publisher of one of the pre-eminent collections of poetry from the 18th Century, A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Several Hands. Read more here.

Just One Good Reason (of many) to Buy Your Books Direct from the Seller, Rather than through ABE

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Books at Star Dot Star is no longer listing our inventory on ABE. And we are not alone. As of April 3 many dealers stopped listing with ABE altogether. And others now list only their cheapest stock on ABE. Read why here.

A Second-Generation Bookseller's View of Bookbreaking

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My parents were both book dealers for more than 50 years in the pre-Internet antiquarian, scholarly and OP trade. For the record I am now 62 years old and have been working in the book biz since I could sit upright and hold a pencil which is just about the time my folks started their shop.

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Religion
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Leather Binding
Defoe, Daniel
Christianity

 
Christian's Defence Against the Fears of Death with Seasonable Directions How to Prepare Ourselves to Die Well

Author Name:   Drelincourt, Charles and D'Assigni, Marius (trans)

Title:    Christian's Defence Against the Fears of Death with Seasonable Directions How to Prepare Ourselves to Die Well

Binding:   Leather
Book Condition:   Good
Jacket Condition:   No Jacket
Edition:   15th Edition
Size:   5 x 7.5"
Publisher:   London Printed for T Longman and 16 Others 1741

Seller ID:   003596

502pp - Subtitled, "Written originally in French, by the late Reverend Divine of the Protestant church of Paris, Charles Drelincourt. Translated into English, by Marius D'Assigni. 15th edition, newly corrected. With an account of the author, and his last minutes". D'Assigni was apparently Daniel Defoe.
Lacking front and rear boards. Frontis, title page and prelims all detached with some burnt spots and other major edgewear and contemporary inked notations and owners' ("Thomas Taylor [of] Bransby [Lincolnshire]") inscription dated 1779, ("Thomas Taylor") inscription dated 1796, ("Tym Green") inscription dated 1745/6 (with notation of his death "February 14, 1777/6", and ("Thomas Taylor") inscription dated 1796 to prelim pages, all of which are attached to title page with a pin. And notations of the death of Henry Boot on August 23, 1719, aged 45 years and Ann Boot on March 7, 1744, aged 70 years to title page recto. This book is not a pretty sight, but it's certainly a bibliographic and religious curiosity, and could quite readily do with re-binding. Most of the leather spine (with its five raised bands) is intact.

Antiquarian, Religion, Christian, Defoe, 18th Century

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