Earle john ed edward arber (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket (assume none issued). Reprint of orig. Arber edition. Geen cloth cover. 104 pp., decorated initials throughout; light browning to endpapers, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean, corners slightly bumped, spine slightly faded, mere hint of crease across top front outer corner and a little dull. Originally issued in Arber's 'English Reprints' series 1868-1871. Of interest from several angles such as social history, history of psychology and bibliography (as Arber has a bibliographic table showing the characters in each of the 9 issuings over Earle's lifetime, from the 1628 1st to the 1661 8th., and lists subsequent editions down to 1813) The full original title ran: Micro-cosmographie, or, A Peece of the World Discovered; in Essayes and Characters', in fact the contents are virtually all character sketches of different types etc.…

Condizione: Good. 12mo. Green Cloth. 104 pp. VG. Good with some pages well-worn to gutters. Previous owner's bookplate inside cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Sehr gut. 6 vols, 12°, half leather with marbled paper and leather corners, on 5 frets with gilt spine titles and gilt head edges. Marbled endpapers. Volumes I to VI of the "English Reprints" series, edited and annotated by Edward Arber. The volumes contain the following texts: Vol. I (1868): John Milton: Areopagitica, 80 p., Hugh Latimer: Sermon on the Ploughers, 40 p., Stephen Gosson: The School of Abuse, 80 p.; Philip Sidney: An Apologie for Poterie, 72 p.; Edward Webbe: His Trauailes, 40 p.; John Selden: Table-Talk, 120 p. Vol. II (1868): Roger Ascham: Toxophilus, 168 p.; Joseph Addison: Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost, 152 p.; George Villiers: The Rehearsal, 136 p.; George Gascoigne: 1. Certayne Notes of Instruction in English Verse 2. The Steele Glas 3. The Complaynt of Philomene, 119 p. Vol. III (1868): John Lyly: Euphues - the Anatomy of Wit. Euphues and his England, 478 p.; John Earle: Micro-Cosmographie 104 p. Vol. IV (1869): Hugh Latimer: Seven Sermons befor Edward VI., 208 p.; George Puttenham: The Arte of English Poesie, 320 p.; James Howell: Instructions for Forreine Travell, 88 p. Vol. V (1869): Thomas More: Utopia, 168 p.; Nicholas Udall: Roister Doister, 88 p.; The Revelation to the Monk of Evesham, 112 p.; James VI: The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie. A Counterblaste to Tobacco, 120 p.; Robert Naunton: Fragmenta Regalia, 64 p. Vol. VI (1870): Thomas Watson: Poems, 208 p.; William Habington: Castara, 144 p.; Roger Ascham: The Scholemaster, 160 p.; William Webbe: A Discoursen of English Poetrie, 96 p. --- Condition: Red owner's stamp in Chinese characters on endpapers, covers somewhat rubbed, pages slightly darkened, otherwise excellent copies.…