Craig rev edward (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. h/b 173 pages, condition is very good, no DJ. green boards with gilt lettering to the front cover and spine. Frances M Richmond (illustratore).

Full-Leather. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. This is a tight clean copy with a little gifting on the title page and a previous owner name on the half title page with date of 1830. There is also a small bit of foxing but not much. The leather corners and edges show some wear. A digital image can be made available.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 414 pages. Bound in three quarter leather with cloth boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Consists of four entries, the most notable being that of Andrew Reed & James Matheson, "A Narrative of the Visit to the American Churches by the Deputation from the Congregational Union of England Wales," consisting of a 194 page account of travels throughout the colonies, from Washington D.C., to Philadelphia, New England, upstate New York including the Erie Canal and Niagara Falls, Ohio, Kentucky to Virginia, back through New Jersey ; the authors are particularly observant of race, slavery, mill workers, Native Americans, coal miners, abstinence movements and the like. They quote a number of the distressing ads in Baltimore for help in retrieval of runaway slaves, and take part in services of the African Church in Kentucky, where by law the pulpit must be manned by at least one white minister. Very good condition, an unworn copy, some off-setting to the boards, occasional light foxing in the text.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. N.D. folio, reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, Massachusetts, pp,vii,96, with eight full-page illustrations, seven drawings in text, cloth backed card covers.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Small 8vo. 1820/1821. Two titles in one vol. 'Foundation of Christian Hope: Being a Plain and Impartial Enquiry.' and 'Christian Circumspection, &c' Armorial bookplate and ink name to fep. Damp stain affecting top of first 70 pp. Some browning throughout otherwise good in original half calf and marbled boards, hinges cracked but still sound, and wear to extremities. red mor, gt. label a little damaged with loss to edges. Rare. COPAC locates only 1 copy of this 1st edition (Nat. Library of Scotland) & 2 copies of later editions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Publication: London, Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, n.d. [c. 1800â"1815] Formatting: 8vo, pagination unverified, untrimmed text block. Condition Report: Good. The volume has been sensibly but plainly rebound in grey-blue paper over boards, presenting a tight, secure structure devoid of external embellishment. The text block remains entirely untrimmed, preserving its original rough-cut edges which display expected age-toning and moderate dust-soiling. Internally, the binding holds firm, though the preliminary leaves, including the frontispiece and title page, exhibit significant damp staining and prominent tide marks primarily localised to the lower gutter and margins. Intermittent foxing and scattered spotting are present throughout the text block, commensurate with the paper stock and provincial production of this era, yet the structural integrity remains uncompromised and the text is fully legible. Catalogue Note: This "Stereotype Edition" compiles Edward Youngâs profoundly influential blank-verse meditation alongside Robert Blairâs The Grave and supplementary verses, effectively gathering the period's most popular "Graveyard School" poetry into a single, accessible volume. The text is accompanied by an engraved frontispiece portrait of Young and several internal engraved plates executed by notable period craftsmen (including Neagle, Cooke, and J. Palmer), representing a solid example of nineteenth-century provincial illustration. The copy bears modest but interesting provenance markers, including early ownership signatures ("J. Burman" and what appears to be "John Forster") on the preliminary leaves. Having been rebound functionally in plain paper boards, the book stands as an authentic, unsophisticated survival of a heavily read printing. Such stereotyped editions, while historically printed in enormous numbers to satisfy the sweeping middle-class appetite for pietistic literature, are surprisingly scarce on the open market today in any condition, as they were overwhelmingly read to pieces rather than preserved in formal libraries. A quintessential cornerstone of the eighteenth-century "Graveyard School" of poetry, Edward Young's Night Thoughts was a spectacular literary success that defined the mood of Christian melancholia for generations. Written in profound grief following a succession of personal losses, this expansive blank-verse epic explores the transient nature of life, the inevitability of death, and the hope of immortality. This compilation also features Robert Blair's similarly influential poem The Grave, alongside other contemporary elegiac works, offering a comprehensive immersion into the era's fascination with mortality, mourning, and spiritual redemption. W.M. Craig; Cooke; Neagle; J. Palmer; J. James; J. Dudley; J. Taylor (illustratore).…

Condizione: Good. Amherst 1829 First American Edition (stated). Sm.8vo., 304pp., 1/2 cloth and boards with original printed paper spine label. Good, light foxing, binding a bit soiled, spine label chipped at edges (not affecting printing). Hinges not cracked.