Copy pope alexander (3 risultati)
Editore: London. C. Bathurst and others. 1788
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Da: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.Riverby Books
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Usato - Discreto
EUR 134,27
EUR 6,04 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 5 Hardcover volumes in full, original, leather. Title labels on the spine have all chipped off, and the volume number labels are in danger of coming off as well. Spines are dry and chipping, boards are generally fine, but edgeworn. Leather hinges are weak, but the cords are keeping all the covers tig…htly in place. Title pages all dated 1788. We have volumes 1-5 of the 6 volume set. Text blocks are in good shape, edges crisp and square, pages clean and without foxing. Between 300 and 360 pages in each volume, all complete. Each of these volumes has early ownership name of Charles E. Dyer. Dyer was a US District judge in Wisconsin, nominated by President Grant. He grew up on Burlington, WI. His father was Edward Galusha Dyer, an early settler of Burlington, Wisconsin, the first doctor to settle in the new community, and a widely regarded conductor on the Underground Railroad operations in the region, helping usher scores of enslaved people to freedom on the northward route to Canada. We have several volumes from the Dyer collection among our listings. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it s an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book. Some extra shipping will be needed for this 5 volume set.
Editore: By William Ayre, Esq. London. Printed by his Majesty's Authority, for the Author, and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. 1745. 1745
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Da: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.Riverby Books
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Usato - Buono
EUR 313,30
EUR 6,04 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2 volumes. Both volumes bound in original full leather, with raised cords on the spine and volume numbers stamped in gold. Original black leather title labels chipped off. Both bindings are damaged (see below), but both are ruggedly attractive all the same. Volume 1. xiii + 340 pages + index. Front c…over and all pages up to 15 detached (those pages are all still attached to the front cover). Bookplate on inside front cover with the name "Eben J. Brewer." Booksellers notes in pencil on the first blank page and part of a much older notation as well, but that older one is chipped off at the top corner. Name signed at the top of the first page of text (Royal Patent) is Geo. Clavering. The signature is dated 1745. Volume 2. 389 pages + index. Text block broke in two in this volume as well, this one between pages 92/93. Same bookplate on inside front cover. Front hinge is reinforced with white binders tape. Name "Geo. Clavering" signed on the second blank page. There was an Eben J. Brewer who served as a volunteer Civil War nurse in 1864 and went on to become a lawyer and then ran the US Postal operation in Cuba, where he died in 1898. His brother lived in New York. His father was a NY Congressman. The bookplate shows a small sailboat off a wooded point of land if this is the same Eben Brewer whose obituary is in the NY Times in 1898, the bookplate much have been added towards the end of his life, as it doesn't look like it's from the 1870s or 1880s. The name signed in the books, "Geo. Clavering 1745" may be more interesting, as there was a George Clavering who was the godson of George II, and became the Earl of Cowper, a well known patron of the arts but it's not clear if this is that same George Clavering. It is a research project that I will leave for the next owner of the book.
Altre immaginiEditore: Printed [by C. Whittingham] for John Sharpe, London 1829
Da: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 3 stelleCondizione: Usato
EUR 884,40
EUR 8,69 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
170 x 100 mm. (6 3/4 x 4"). 190 pp.; vi, 208 pp. Two volumes bound in one. . Attractive contemporary red morocco, gilt, by Hayday (stamp-signed at foot of verso of front free endpaper), covers with French fillet border, central panel framed by dogtooth roll, floral sprigs at corners, oval medallion at center within a lancet fram…e, raised bands, spine compartments with central floral sprig, leafy cornerpieces, gilt lettering, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Two engraved title pages with vignette and 10 engraved plates illustrating poems. Verso of front free endpaper with ink owner inscription of Norman MacLeod Ferrers (see below) dated March 1846; occasional marginal annotations. Joints and corners somewhat rubbed, slight chip to head of rear joint, the majority of the plates a bit foxed, but still an excellent copy, the text clean and fresh, and the binding sound and not without appeal. This attractively bound volume--with important provenance--contains two of the most enduring works by a man generally recognized as the greatest poet of the age. "The Rape of the Lock" is a graceful and devastating critique of everyday life among the vain and frivolous, and one of the century's most famous verses. The didactic success of the work results from the immense gap between the silliness of the episode and the great seriousness with which its participants treat it. "The poem is pure rococo, the one perfect example of this style in English." (Day) "Essay on Man" is Pope's grand philosophical poem in heroic couplets that, like Milton's "Paradise Lost," sought to accomplish nothing less than the vindication of the ways of God to man. Not really an essay on man at all, but instead on the moral order in the universe, the four epistles making up this celebrated work maintain that apparent evil results from a human failure to see the total plan of the universe and that there is a reason for whatever appears to be imperfect. Dugald Stewart called the work "the noblest specimen of philosophical poetry which our language affords." Other works included here are "Eloisa to Abelard," "Essay on Criticism," "Imitations of Horace," and numerous odes and epistles. One of the most prominent and productive English binders of the 19th century, James Hayday (1796-1872) first appeared in the London directories in 1825, and a dozen years later, he was employing a staff of between 30 and 40, including 10 finishers. He was known for his decorative work, using high quality leather and being very liberal with gilt embellishment. Our volume was presented as a prize to the 17-year-old Norman Macleod Ferrers (1829-1903) in the year he graduated from Eton College, by Assistant Master Francis Edward Durnford (1816-1881). Described in Benson's "Fasti Etonenses" as "the last of the real Fellows of Eton," Durnford was known for his strong devotion to his students and was endeared to generations of Etonians. Ferrers continued his education at Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1851 as Senior Wrangler (first among the students who received first class degrees in mathematics), a feat that has been called the greatest intellectual achievement attainable in Britain. Although he qualified as a lawyer and was ordained a priest in the church of England, Ferrers chose to devote his life to the study and teaching of mathematics. DNB notes, "He was probably the best lecturer, in his subject, in the university of his day; besides great natural powers in mathematics, he possessed an unusual capacity for vivid exposition." He made numerous contributions to the literature of mathematics, both as editor of "The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics" and as the author of notable works on trilinear coordinates, spherical harmonics, and integer partitions. He became master of Caius College in 1880 and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University in 1884.
