Martin peter 1940 (5 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: good dust-jacket, worn and scuffed, front endpaper has been neatly cut out, and some very light pencil erasures, otherwise still very good light purple cloth for reading and study. MARTIN, PETER. Pursuing innocent pleasures: the gardening world of Alexander Pope. Hamden, Conn: Archon Books, 1984, xxiv, 309pp., . CONTENTS: Introduction -- A Master Key to Popery in Gardens -- Chiswick and Twickenham: The Beginnings Along the Thames -- The Great Patriarch: Lord Bathurst and His Parks -- Sherborne Castle: A "Situation of so uncommon a kind" -- Bolingbroke: The Tory Farmer at Dawley Farm -- Pope, Mrs. Howard, and Friends at Marble Hall -- Lord Peterborough's "little Amoret" at Bevis Mount -- The Closing Scenes at Bath: Mr. Allen's Prior Park -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 9780208020116 ISBN 020802011X.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good dust-wrapper; both copy and wrapper have a small but deep scuff to lower front spine. Binding entirely unaffected, and copy remains very well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xviii, 522 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), 1 map, portraits (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. Contents; pt. I. Staffordshire Youth -- 1. Anecdotes of Beggary -- 2. Stepping on the Duckling -- 3. Leaping over the Rail -- 4. Two Benefactors -- pt. II. Despondency and Hope -- 5. Oxford: Wielding a Scholar's Weapon -- 6. Horrible Imaginings -- 7. Stirrings in Birmingham -- 8. Taking a Wife -- pt. III. Slow Rises Worth -- 9. Stranger in London -- 10. Sons ofMisery: Finding Richard Savage -- 11. 'Slow Rises Worth by Poverty Depress'd' -- 12. Wandering in the Midlands -- pt. IV. 'Triumph: The Dictionary Years -- 13. London Revived: A Lion in Harness -- 14. A Lifeline: the Dictionary -- 15. Poetic Interludes -- 16. Terry and 'Amorous propensities' -- 17. The Triumph of the Moralist -- 18. Darkness Falls -- 19. Once More Unto the Breach: Back to the Dictionary -- pt. V. Depression, Shakespeare, Travel and Anger -- 20. Stalled -- 21. 'Suffering Chimeras' -- 22. 'Vain and Corrupt Imaginations' -- 23. Boswell and Mrs Thrale -- 24. Shakespeare and the Living World -- 25. Coliseum of Beasts -- 26. Back to Shakespeare and the Dictionary -- 27. The Road to the Hebrides -- 28. Politics and Travel -- pt. VI. Biography and 'The Race With Death' -- 29. 'A Very Poor Creeper Upon the Earth' -- 30. Biographical Straitjacket -- 31. Losing Ground -- 32. The Last Days. Subjects; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784). Authors, English 18th century Biography. Lexicographers Great Britain Biography. Critics Great Britain Biography. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good dust-wrapper; both copy and wrapper have a small but deep scuff to lower front spine. Binding entirely unaffected, and copy remains very well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xviii, 522 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), 1 map, portraits (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. Contents; pt. I. Staffordshire Youth -- 1. Anecdotes of Beggary -- 2. Stepping on the Duckling -- 3. Leaping over the Rail -- 4. Two Benefactors -- pt. II. Despondency and Hope -- 5. Oxford: Wielding a Scholar's Weapon -- 6. Horrible Imaginings -- 7. Stirrings in Birmingham -- 8. Taking a Wife -- pt. III. Slow Rises Worth -- 9. Stranger in London -- 10. Sons ofMisery: Finding Richard Savage -- 11. 'Slow Rises Worth by Poverty Depress'd' -- 12. Wandering in the Midlands -- pt. IV. 'Triumph: The Dictionary Years -- 13. London Revived: A Lion in Harness -- 14. A Lifeline: the Dictionary -- 15. Poetic Interludes -- 16. Terry and 'Amorous propensities' -- 17. The Triumph of the Moralist -- 18. Darkness Falls -- 19. Once More Unto the Breach: Back to the Dictionary -- pt. V. Depression, Shakespeare, Travel and Anger -- 20. Stalled -- 21. 'Suffering Chimeras' -- 22. 'Vain and Corrupt Imaginations' -- 23. Boswell and Mrs Thrale -- 24. Shakespeare and the Living World -- 25. Coliseum of Beasts -- 26. Back to Shakespeare and the Dictionary -- 27. The Road to the Hebrides -- 28. Politics and Travel -- pt. VI. Biography and 'The Race With Death' -- 29. 'A Very Poor Creeper Upon the Earth' -- 30. Biographical Straitjacket -- 31. Losing Ground -- 32. The Last Days. Subjects; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784). Authors, English 18th century Biography. Lexicographers Great Britain Biography. Critics Great Britain Biography. 1 Kg.…

Hardback edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; x, 613 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Subjects; Boswell, James 1740-1795 Criticism and interpretation. Boswell, James 1740-1795 ; Biography. Boswell, James 1740-1795. Authors, Scottish 18th century ; Biography. Authors, Scottish 18th century. 1 Kg. …

Hardback edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; x, 613 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Subjects; Boswell, James 1740-1795 Criticism and interpretation. Boswell, James 1740-1795 ; Biography. Boswell, James 1740-1795. Authors, Scottish 18th century ; Biography. Authors, Scottish 18th century. 1 Kg. …