Dyson jeremiah ed (2 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. [3], vi-xi, [4], 4-380pp. Slightly later half calf and marbled paper over boards, flat bands, spine in six panels, title label to second panel. Covers and extremities rubbed, corners bumped. Internally lightly browned throughout, often heavier to margins, several pages soiled to top margins, but nothing too obtrusive. First leaf is blank according to the ESTC, but is here bound between viii and ix. With the attractive mezzotint portrait of Akenside by E.[dward] Fisher (see Alexander, 'A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers 1714-1820', pages 343-345), after [Arthur] Pond. One of five hundred copies printed according to Bowyer's and Nichols's records (see ESTC). Mark Akenside (1721-1770), poet and physician, "Akenside was singularly precocious as a poet . and at the age of seventeen he began the poem by which he is best remembered, 'The Pleasures of Imagination' . at the age of only twenty-four, Akenside had achieved a wide reputation as a poet . [however] the faults of his intellect and his character began to reveal themselves. He became mentally fossilised by pedantry and conceit, and he gave way to a native tendency to arrogance, which grew to be a great disadvantage to him . In 1759, Akenside was appointed principal physician to Christ's and to St. Thomas's Hospitals [but] it is sad to be obliged to record that even in those lax days Akenside shocked his contemporaries by his brutal roughness and cruelty to the poor . He is said to have expired in the bed in which Milton died" (DNB) Size: 4to. …

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. A wonderful first collected edition of this posthumous poetry anthology of the works of Mark Akenside. The first collected edition of Akenside's works in octavo. Published simultaneously with a quarto edition. Rebound in modern paper covered boards with the original rear paper wrap and blanks retained and archivally repared. Printed as part of a print run of 1000 copies by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols (ESTC T87425). This edition published two years after Akenside's death. Edited with lengthy notes on the verse by Akenside's friend and colleague, Right. Hon, Jeremiah Dyson. This volume containing his noteworthy verse, 'The Pleasures of Imagination', first published by Akenside in 1744 at the age of seventeen. Rebound in modern paper covered boards. Original rear paper wrap and blanks retained. Externally, very smart. Only mild soiling to paper covered boards in places. Slight bumping to extremities. Some soiling to original wrap with areas of loss, archivally repaired. Minor loss to upper extremity of front blank. Internally, generally firmly bound. Slight straining to hinge between x-16pp. Pages bright and clean. The occasional spot. Discreet ink inscription to upper title page and recto front blank. Very Good. None (illustratore). book.…