Beattie sir william (25 risultati)

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Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, 2 volumes, F. xlii+[vi]+x+409pp, 431pp, b/w frontis, a nice fine as new set, a facsimile of the 1806 edition. A good biography of Beattie [1735-1803] containing a wealth of letters & information. Poet & professor of Moral Philosophy. 1650 grams.

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Full Calf Leather. Condizione: Very Good. Full tree calf with embossed gilt design around edges of boards and six compartmented gilt designed and embossed designs on spine. Marbled endpages. Foxed flyleaves and there is noteable waterstain to title page and following page only. Most pages bright and unfoxed but there is some light marginal foxing to some pages. This volume is complete in one volume in one volume. 559pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 402 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.91 inches. This item is printed on demand.

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559 pp. 8vo. First American edition, With the second half-titles and the 2 leaves of errata and. 559 pp. 8vo. This biography of Beattie is made up of letters from Beattie put together by Coutts banker Sir William Forbes. Full tree calf. Fine. Signed by William Lord Boston April 1817 on ffep First American edition, With the second half-titles and the 2 leaves of errata and.…

First edition of Forbes's principal work, an excellent association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to the author's son, "William Forbes Esqr. from the author"; together with a small group of related contemporary autograph material laid in which reflects the strong ties between the Forbes and Beattie families. Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet of Pitsligo (1739-1806) was a prominent Scottish banker, philanthropist, and writer, and long-time friend of James Beattie. Forbes was the dedicatee of a number of Beattie's works and became the executor of his will upon Beattie's death in 1803, in which Beattie bequeathed "to my excellent friend, Sir William Forbes. as a small memorial of our friendship, my silver watch, with a stop and second hand, made with particular care by Gartly, and also the two splendid volumes in quarto of Lavater's 'Physiognomy', which will be found among my other books" (II, p. 349). Forbes was also a friend of James Boswell (described in the Tour of the Hebrides as "a man of whom too much good cannot be said") and through him became a member of Samuel Johnson's literary dining club. The present biography of Beattie was republished in three octavo volumes the following year. At the time of publication the author's eldest son, William Forbes (1773-1828), was 33 years old. He was a lifelong friend of Sir Walter Scott, whom he famously usurped by marrying Willihemina Belsches, and he succeeded to the baronetcy as 7th of the title. The original material laid-in enhances the copy's intimate association. Beattie's only surviving son Montagu died suddenly in 1796, a year after he painted the enclosed watercolour titled "Ruins of Pitsligo near Fraserburgh, from the N.W." (item 1). After his son's death Beattie, who was plagued by illness throughout his life, suffered a further decline in mental and physical health and resigned his teaching post in 1797. James Farquhar Gordon was a fellow executor of Beattie's will and, in his letter to Forbes dated 16 October 1806 (present here, item 2), he transcribed a section of it regarding the bequeathal of money to Beattie's brother David. Forbes published the contents of this letter as part of the Appendix to volume II. There are three other documents present: two autograph notes in Forbes's hand (one containing transcriptions from a series of Psalms on the subject of mourning, the other a small note bearing Sir William Forbes's name and address) and a single folded sheet of blotting paper used on Forbes's name as written on the front free endpaper (the fifth and final item). 2 vols, quarto (310 x 245 mm). Mezzotint frontispiece with tissue guard to vol. 1, 8 facsimile letters to vol. 2. Contemporary blue boards, printed paper spine labels, edges uncut, partially unopened. Together with 5 related contemporary documents laid in (see note). Armorial bookplate of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo to front pastedown of vol. 2. Spines, joints, and extremities expertly repaired, spines a little browned, presenting very well in the original boards; contents generally bright and clean, but lower halves of gatherings 3H and 3J in vol. 2 regrettably lost, likely to rodent damage, affecting some of the final portions of text (to Index, for example). Excepting this a very good copy.…

FIRST EDITION. Two Volumes: Volume 1: 1 blank leaf + Engraved frontispiece by T. Gaugain + TP + 2 leaves = Dedication + [i]-ix = Introduction + half title + [13]-409 + [411] = Instructions to the Binder with Errata on verso + 1 blank leaf; Volume 2: 1 blank leaf + TP + [1]-431 + [433] = Errata + 1 blank leaf; Quarto. First Edition.First Edition of Sir William Forbes' Life of BeattieThe first edition, containing eight plates of manuscript and music. The early biography of the poet, moral philosopher and literary critic James Beattie. The book is a compilation of Beattie's letters and manuscripts that is tied together by the commentary of Beattie's friend, Sir William Forbes. Contemporary polished calf boards with light wear to corners. The spines have been rebacked nicely matching leather with gilt decorations and lettering on a black field. Both rear boards are embossed with the circular stamp (2" diameter) in the center of the board: "Public Libraries Glasgow". The inside front board of each book and the facing front fly leaf had former labels which have been neatly removed. The inside cover of Volume 1 has the small (2½" x 3½") former owner's (D. Cuthbertson) crested bookplate. Volume 2 has a small 2-line stamp to the center of the first blank leaf: "Glasgow Public Library" and again on the title page. Both title pages are foxed (volume 1 heavily so because of the frontispiece offset) and have paper repairs to upper right corners where a previous owner's inscriptions have been removed. Otherwise, this is a handsome, tight, clean and wide-margined copy of this excellent early life of Beattie. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.…

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