dryden john bell robert (4 risultati)

2 vols: 299 + ads + 296pp. 12mo Brown cloth. Edited with a Memoir by Robert Bell in the series Bell's English Poets. Endpapers foxed, both volumes lack free endpapers, Vol II lacks half title page, texts lightly foxed, but clean; stamps on rear pastedown; light cover rubbing at extremities, cover bottoms lightly waterstained: Good/no djs.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Not Stated (illustratore). Three volumes on the poetry of John Dryden from Robert Bell's major work 'The Annotated Edition of the English Poets'. Three volumes in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bookplate of James Hunter of Hafton to the front paste downs. The third edition of Volume I and II, and the first edition of Volume III, of the poetical works of John Dryden from Robert Bell's major work The Annotated Edition of the English Poets (24 vols, first published 18547). In these annotated editions, Bell includes memoirs of the poets, and various notes and introductions to particularly famous poems.Volume I contains a memoir of Dryden by Bell and seventeen poems. Volume II contains twenty-two more poems, a preface to Dryden's fables, and the first couple of parts to his 'Tales from Chaucer'. Volume III contains the rest of his 'Tales from Chaucer', his translations from Boccace, his epitaphs and inscriptions, and his lyric poems.Four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear of Volumes I and III.This work is scarce in a three-volume set. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally generally smart, though faded to the spines. Small losses and shelf wear to the spine labels, not obscuring the lettering. Marks to the boards of Volumes II and III. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the occasional spot. Many pages are uncut. Very Good. book.

First edition thus. Small octavo. Three volumes: pp 299; 296; 307. Period binding of full calf with raised bands, gilt decoration to spines, leather spine labels, marbled endpapers.On the verso of the front free endpaper of the first volume is a contemporary (1854) gift inscription to a member of the Sotheby family. Light rubbing to covers. A very good set in attractive bindings.

THREE VOLUMES. 8vo. 4.5 x 6.5 inches. Vol. I, 299 pp.; Vol. II, 296 pp.; Vol. III, 307 pp. Bound in original half green morocco over marbled boards; spine in compartments with raised band, decorated gilt with contrasting maroon and brown title labels, gilt. Endpapers and all edges marbled. Slight wear to extremities and a little foxing, largely confined to preliminaries; otherwise a very good clean copy. An Edition of Dryden's poems with a long introductory memoir and careful annotations by Robert Bell (1800-67). Bell moved from Ireland to London in 1828 and made his reputation as a journalist and literary editor. His English poets series in the same format as the Dryden, was issued in twenty four volumes, 1854-57, and expanded to twenty nine volumes in 1866. A relatively scarce title, handsomely bound. ART / LITERATURE POETRY POETRY 17TH CENTURY FINE BINDING ART / LITERATURE.