jenyns rev (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Lightly rubbed corners, head and foot of spine, rear hinge starting, but otherwise tightly bound, missing rear end paper, clean, unmarked pages throughout. From the library of and signed by author and meteorologist Simon Winchester. In Bro Dart archival quality polyester cover.

Hard covers. Condizione: V.g. No Jacket. New edition. Blind stamp on ffep; one blank page of prelims. Excised. Rear free end paper foxed. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Limited Edition. Royal Geographical Society Commemorative Facsimile edition of the 1890 Smith, Elder and Co. edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. Set number 190. Firmly bound, marbled boards, gilt decorated leather spine and corners, marbled end papers. The wooden presentation box is not present.

Hard. Condizione: Poor. First printing. Poor. Publishers cloth, spine edges splitting at head and tail. Ex-library; usual stamps and markings. Free front endpaper detached but present.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 8vo,first edition, pp,ix,415, gilt titled green cloth, some mild foxing, some old ink notes on the leading paste-down endpaper, name cut from the leading free endpaper.

[2], ii, iv, [4], 301, [1 (blank)]; [4], vi, [7] - 282 pp. 16mo, gathered in 8s. 7-3/16" x 4-5/8" Shepherd was a "Church of England clergyman and theological writer, . who matriculated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 1 December 1749 at the age of seventeen. . After considering a military career he took orders in the Church of England and eventually was appointed chaplain to Thomas Thurlow, bishop of Lincoln and later of Durham; Thurlow's nomination gained Shepherd the archdeaconry of Bedford in July 1783. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in May 1781, and in 1788 he was Bampton lecturer at Oxford. In 1792 he was instituted to the rectory of Wetherden and Helmingham in Suffolk by Lord Chancellor Thurlow, brother of the bishop, and he held these preferments until his death. Shepherd published a wide selection of writings, including poetry and drama, although he came to concentrate on theology. His poetry was not unsuccessful: his Ode to Love (1755?) was reprinted in 1760 and The Nuptials (1761) went into three editions. Most of his poetic and dramatic pieces were included in the two-volume Miscellanies (1775). Several of Shepherd's theological works went into two or more editions, including his response to Soame Jenyns in The Review of a Free Enquiry (1759), The Requisition of Subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles (1771), and Reflections on the Doctrine of Materialism (1779), addressed to Joseph Priestley. Shepherd published regularly throughout his life; his last piece was No False Alarm, or, A Sequel to Religious Union (1808). He died at the parsonage at Wetherden on 3 January 1809." [ODNB]. "The first volume [of Miscellanies] consists primarily of verse, and includes odes, elegies, and two long poems, 'The Nuptials' and the dramatic poem 'Hector'; at the end is a letter to Sir William Jones on education. The second volume contains the author's philosophical writings, particularly his letters to Soame Jenyns occasioned by the latter's 'Free Enquiry into the Origin and Nature of Evil." [Quaritch]. Shepherd's works are now uncommon in the trade. This 2 volume work is offered with 2 other Shepherd titles, TavBooks ID #37012 & 37013. The listed price is for all 4 volumes. Light binding wear. Prior owner bookplate/signature. Overal, an attractive Very Good Plus copy. Period bindings of full light brown spotted calf with elaborate gilt decorated spine; dentelles & marbled paper eps. Pale yellow edge stain 1st collected edition. OCLC records 8 institutional holdings.