John dryden et al (18 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: UsedGood. Hardcover; Everyman's Library, No. 604; 1950 reprint of the 1932 new editio n; with an introduction by Sir Edmund Gosse; features plays by John Dryden, Thomas Otway, William Wycherley, Sir John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Geor ge Farquhar, and Sir George Etherege. Fading and shelf wear to exterior; co rners bumped; fading to pages; in good condition with clean text, firm bind ing. Dust jacket shows fading, scuffing, and edge tears. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Light wear, binding tight and square. Previous owner info on the front free endpaper and the bookseller's label (Foyle on Charing Cross Road) on the front pastedown. Small (4 X 6 inches), blue-grey cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. xxiv, 371 pages. This volume in the World's Classics series was originally published in 1916 and reprinted eight times before being reset in 1946. This reprint from that reset is from 1954. In addition to Jonson, Milton, and Dryden, you'll find contributions from Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Walter Savage Landor and more. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. A soft cover play scripts in very good condition. Pages are white, intact and unmarked. The cover is well-preserved with minimal signs of wear along the edges of the spine.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1582 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dj. Slight damage to spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very good plus. Hardcover is rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover and foredges lightly soiled, pages browned at edges, spine browned.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Very Good. Near Very Good. First Edition Thus. First edition thus, review copy with publisher's slip laid in, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, mild wear to the cover edges with a few small dings to the tail edges, and mild rubbing to the covers. Overall, a Near Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has chipped bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, mild wear to the edges with a crease and a few short tears to the head of the front, and rubbing with areas of smudging to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.…

Full-Leather. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 4th Edition. Leather binding most likely a early 19th century rebind. Insert on spine missing but word Dryden is faint. Seventeen plates; 16 for Juvenal and 1 for Flaccus. Additional information and/or photos available upon request. M. Vander Gucht et.al. (illustratore). …

Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, neat signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of navy blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Includes Roger Boyle: The Tragedy of Mustapha; Elkanah Settle: The Empress of Morocco; John Crowne: The Destruction of Jerusalem Part II; Nathaniel Lee: Sophonisha; John Dryden: Aureng-Zebe. WC 576.…

Condizione: Good. 12mo. 439 pp. Three Quarter Red Gilt Leather on Red Cloth Boards, Top Edge of Text Block Gilt. Very Good with wear to leather in spots, tiny split at head of spine.Provenance: The estate of Paul Gallico (1897 - 1976), one of the greatest storytellers and writers of the 20th Century. The celebrated American-born novelist, screenwriter and journalist is renowned for the writing of a number of significant works, including his most well-known book, The Snow Goose, a short novel that achieved much acclaim and was later made into a film and broadcast on BBC TV.…

Introduction by Sir Edmund Gosse. London 1974. xviii, 509 pages. Pocket. Underlinings in pink pencil.*Includes: All For Love, The Country Wife, The Way of the World, Venice Preserved, The Beaux Stratagem, The Provoked Wife & The Man of Mode.[#216913].

Buckram. Condizione: Good. Fifth Edition. Ex-library copies with book plate on each front endpaper. Bar code and security scanner patch in rear. Rebound in modern covers. Last leaf is torn (and repaired) but no loss of text. Pages have varying amounts of browning. ; In six volumes, complete.

Leather. Condizione: Good Only. First edition. The first edition of this very scarce early eighteenth century collection of poems, edited by Elijah Fenton. The very scarce first edition of this work, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by Michael van der Gucht.A wonderful collection of early eighteenth century miscellaneous poetry, edited with Elijah Fenton, and including contributions from Fenton, Sir John Denham, Lord Halifax, Lord Orrery, John Dryden, Thomas Otway and others.ESTC Citation No. T145730. Engraved arms at head of A2, with the cancel L6 signed L***, as called for.Inscription to title page head.Thought to have been published on the 7th or 9th January, 1708, due to an advertisement in the Daily Herald. In a full calf binding. Front board detached. Paper spine label age toned, with significant loss. Rubbing to back strip and boards. Head of rear joint starting, with board a touch tender. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to title page head. Pages age toned, with spotting throughout. Good Only. Michael Van der Gucht (illustratore). book.…

Leather. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. The scarce first edition of the first Dryden-Tonson miscellany, a landmark anthology containing Dryden's Mac "Flecknoe," "Absalom and Achitophel" and "The Medall" alongside major classical translations. In a later half calf binding over marbled paper boards, endpapers renewed. First edition of the first volume of the celebrated Tonson-Dryden miscellanies, the influential series of six poetic anthologies issued by Jacob Tonson between 1684 and 1709. ESTC No.: R297. Signatures: [A]4 B-X8 Y4; 2A-C8 2D8 (D4 + "D5" + 2) 2E8 2F4. Collated, complete. Retaining the final advertisement page. The collection opens with three major satires by Dryden: Mac Flecknoe, Absalom and Achitophel, and The Medall. These are followed by translations from Ovid's Elegies and Horace's Odes, numerous prologues and epilogues, and a substantial concluding section devoted to translations of Virgil's Eclogues. Contributors include Thomas Creech, Sir Charles Sedley, the Earl of Roscommon, Richard Duke, Thomas Otway, Nahum Tate and others. In a later half calf binding with marbled paper boards, endpapers renewed. Externally, very smart. Minor shelf wear to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages characteristically age toned with light soiling to first and last few leaves. The odd spot and handling mark, heavier to fore edge. Several leaves with pronounced contemporary ink offsetting, resulting in mirrored impressions from the facing pages, in places quite heavy and partially obscuring the printed text, occurring more prominently to gatherings after O1. These leaves remain legible, if slightly more difficult to parse. Slight loss to lower corner of F3, affecting one or two words. Very Good. None Stated (illustratore). book.…

Hardcover (Full Leather). Condizione: Good Condition. First Edition. A sammelband of four pamphlets in a later (failed) calf binding. Front cover detached, rar hinge cracked, much worn and dry. Scattered paper flaws intnerally, some chipping, messily opened pages, but generally very good internally. Comprising three (of four) of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems along with a collection of poems on affairs of state (the middle of three that were published) by Andrew Marvell and others (Marvell is not named until the third collection, but barely disguised in volumes 1 and 2 - here as A. M______ in "A Dialogue Between Two Horses" and on the title page). They are all printed in 1689, the year the The Glorious Revolution became official as James II fled to Ireland and Mary & William ascended the throne in what has been aptly described as the last successful invasion of England. Bound with the separate title pages; the 3rd (32pp), The 4th (33pp); 2nd Part of Poems on Affairs of State (30pp); and the 2nd (31pp). Each complete. Everyone was getting behind the new power structure - out with tyranny and Catholicism, in with constitutional monarchy and the Dutch, and these rapidly released short books of poetry on current events are fascinating artifacts of this moment. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; History. Inventory No: 049735. …

First edition thus. Small thick square 4to. Each section paginated separately. Each of the 80 engraved sepia portrait plates present, sculpted by Taylor, William Nutter, J. Ogborn and W. Birch using illustrations by Samuel Shelly and Robert Smirke, printed onto stipple engraved antique laid paper. Also contains 10 engraved picturesque landscapes bound at rear. 90 plates in all. Handsomely bound in full contemporary tree calf gilt, bds. sl. rubbed, expertly rebacked with original attractively decorated spine laid down, leather lettering piece, marbled e/ps. Armorial bookplate of Jane Houghton, dated 1807. Pages and plates lightly age browned o/w a very clean and sound copy of this work. It is very unusual to find this volume complete, bound from all the original parts. Over half of the known are defective and we are pleased to be able to present this scarce and unusual item. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of the first part (215mm x 162mm, 36 pp) - Dryden spelt as Driden and 'By' to title page printed in upper case - 1689, in later marbled paper-covered boards bound in half red leather. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards rubbed to edges. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text remains particularly bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Wing C5176; ESTC R23725; and Case, A.E. 'Poetical Miscellanies 188 (1) (a).'.…

Unbound. Condizione: Very Good. A very scarce poetry collection from the late seventeenth century. Written by several noted satirists of the time. There are poems on Oliver Cromwell's career, the death of Lord Shaftsbury as well as an essay on Satire by John Dryden. Comprising of: I. A Panegyrick on O. Cromwell, and his Victories: By E. Waller, Esquire. II. Oceana & Britannia. III. An Essay upon the E. of Shaftsbury's Death. IV. A Satyr in Answer to a Friend. V. An Historical Poem. VI. The Rabble. VII. The Fourth Satyr of Boileau, to Mr. W.R. Jan. 1687. VIII. A Letany for the Fifth of November, 1684. IX. A short Letany: to the Tune of Cook-Laurel. X. An Essay upon Satyr. By Mr. J. Dr----den. XI. The City-Mallad. 1682. These poems and satires are commentaries of topical subjects that are highly relevant to the seventeenth century. For example 'A Letany for the Fifth of November 1684' discusses the gun-powder plot. This anthology gives an idea of the political and social climate of the late seventeenth century. A fascinating collection of satires and poems, by John Dryden, Edmund Waller and Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Most of these poems had not been printed before and appear here in their first edition form. ESTC Reference no. R24041. With the signatures; A1, B-E4, F1 D2 is stated as C2 and pages 33 and 34 are misnumbered as called for. D3 is closely trimmed to the bottom edge and therefore the catchword is lost. Disbound. Externally, generally smart. Minor damp stain to the rear wrap. Repair to the rear wrap at the gutter towards the head of the page. This affects the first word to first few lines of page 34. Loss to the title page affecting the date of publication. Internally, firmly bound. Closely cropped to several leaves, affecting parts of the catchword or pagination. To D3 the catchword is lost in its entirety. Pages are generally bright. Spot to the bottom corner to most leaves, heaviest to the rear wrap. Very Good. None (illustratore). book.…

Duodecimos. Sixty imprints in 12 volumes complete. Each play has an etched and engraved frontispiece showing a contemporary actor in performance. Each volume has an etched and engraved frontispiece (vol. 1's is additional, all other volumes transpose the frontispiece from the first play) and an etched and engraved title-page listing the plays and playwrights. Uniformly bound in contemporary full calf; spines on five raised bands; titled in gilt to red morocco spine labels; star and crescent rolls in gilt to compartments; rolls in gilt to edges of boards; marbled end-papers. Armourial bookplate of one 'Penry Williams' to front paste-down of each volume. The contents of the 12 volumes are as follows (all are collated and complete, although some terminal blanks may have been transposed in the binding up process): (1) Centlivre, Susanna. The Busy-Body. Pp., 71, [1]; Centlivre, Susanna. A Bold Stroke for a Wife. Pp., 71, [1]; Steele, Richard. The Concious Lovers. Pp., 82, [2]; Fielding, Henry. The Miser. Pp., 81, [1]; Hoadly, Benjamin. The Suspicious Husband. Pp., 71, [1]. (2) Otway, Thomas. The Orphan. Pp., 71, [1]; Rowe, Nicholas. The Fair Penitent. Pp., 62, [2]; Thomson, James. Tancred and Sigismunda. Pp., 75, [1]; Smith, Edmund. Phaedra and Hippolitus. Pp., 70, [2]; Young, Edward. The Revenge. Pp., 63, [1]. (3) Dryden, John. The Spanish Fryar. Pp., 88, [2]; Congreve, William. The Old Bachelor. Pp., 80, [2]; Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John. Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. Pp., 74, [2]; Farquar, George. The Recruiting Office. Pp., 87, [1]; Vanburgh, John. The Provok'd Wife. Pp., 93, [1]. (4) Hill, Aaron. Merope. Pp., 62, [2]; Rowe, Nicholas. Jane Shore. Pp., 62, [2]; Congreve, William. The Mourning Bride. Pp., 67, [1]; Lee, Nathaniel. The Rival Queens. Pp., 56, [2]; Moore, Edward. The Gamester. Pp., 69, [1]. (5) Congreve, William. The Way of the World. Pp., 84, [2]; Howard, Robert. The Committee. Pp., 89, [1]; Johnson, Ben. Every Man in his Humour. Pp., 101, [1]. Farquhar, George. The Beaux Stratagem. Pp., 84; Congreve, William. Love for Love. Pp., 95, [1]. (6) Southern, Thomas. Oroonoko. Pp., 83, [1]; Lillo, George. The London Merchant. Pp., 58, [2]. Otway, Thomas. Venice Preserv'd. Pp., 74, [2]; Rowe, Nicholas. Tamerlane. Pp., 70; Philips, Ambrose. The Disrest Mother. Pp., 55, [5]. (7) Vanburgh, John and Cibber, Colley. The Provok'd Husband. Pp., 105, [1]. Addison, Joseph. The Drummer; or, the Haunted House. Pp., 63, [1]; Cibber, Colley. Love Makes a Man. Pp., 78, [2]; Cibber, Colley. The Careless Husband. Pp., 83, [1]; Steele, Richard. The Funeral. Pp., 71, [1]. (8) Jones, Henry. The Earl of Essex. Pp., 51, [1]; [Brown, John]. Barbarossa. Pp., 57, [1]; Dryden, John. All For Love. Pp., 75, [1]; [Miller, James]. Mahomet the Impostor. Pp., 57, [1]; Rowe, Nicholas. The Tragedy of the Lady Jane Gray. Pp., 63, [1] (9) Dryden, John; Woodward, Henry. Amphitryon. Pp., 76; Congreve, William. The Double Dealer. Pp., 77, [3]; Cibber, Colley. The Double Gallant. Pp., 69, [1]; Farquhar, George. The Inconstant. Pp., 67, [5]; Farquhar, George. The Constant Couple. Pp., 79, [1]. (10) Addison, Joseph. Cato. Pp., 68, [4]. Lee, Nathaniel. Theodosius. Pp., 70, [2]; Hughes, John. The Siege of Damascus. Pp., 67, [1]; Home, John. Douglas. Pp., 57, [2]; Hill, Aaron. The Tragedy of Zara. Pp., 61, [3]. (11) Vanburgh, John. The City Wives Confederacy. Pp., 76, [2]; Foote, Samuel. The Minor. Pp., 55, [1]; Wycherley, William and Garrick, David. The Country Wife. Pp., 69, [1]; Garrick, David. The Chances. Pp., 70; Centlivre, Susanna. The Wonder! Pp., 72. (12) Glover, Richard. Medea. Pp., 57, [1]; Young, Edward. The Brothers; Pp., 67, [1]. Southerne, Thomas and Garrick, David. Isaeblla. Pp., 57, [1]; Murphy, Arthur. The Grecian Daughter. Pp., 64, [2]; Whitehead, William. The Roman Father. Pp., 58. Rubbing to edges of boards, spines spine labels largely absent; soiling to upper board of vol. 1; one gathering of vol. 11 cracked, bindings otherwise strong and square. Offsetting from plates to some title-pages; very occasional spotting; a few nicks to edges of one volume only, but contents generally clean. An attractive set. An excellent complete set which encapsulates English theatre in the Age of Garrick. The plays within represent the hits of the London stage from the Restoration to the 1770s. Each title-page notes that the text includes notation from the manager and prompter's books, which provides some insight into the manner in which these plays were actually performed. The 61 frontispieces depict the stars of the London stage in costumed performance. These images of celebrity actors were collectible in their own right, and were published independently from the plays within. Sets with all the frontispieces can be difficult to locate. ESTC T39833.…