Abbey charles 1833 (2 risultati)

Good orig. green cloth. Covers dampstained, lower joint sprung. xvi, 495 p.; 19.5 cm. [First edition, 1878, 2 vols.; a new edition, revised and abridged, 1887] From preface to the second edition: `Although this edition has been shortened to about half the length of the original one, it is essentially the same work. The reduction has been effected, partly by the omission of some whole chapters, partly by excisions. The chapters omitted are those upon the Jacobites, the Essayists, Church Cries, and Sacred Poetry--subjects which have only a more or less incidental bearing on the Church history of the period. The passages excised are, for the most part, quotations, discursive reflections, explanatory notes, occasional repetitions, and, speaking generally, whatever could be removed without injury to the general purpose of the narrative. There has been no attempt at abridgment in any other form.'. Binding is Hardcover.…

Hardcover. xiii, 456 p.; 19 cm. `Main current' from Caedmon to Wordsworth and Coleridge, with examples. Index, p. 453-56 VG orig. grained maroon cloth. Top edge gilt.