Rev w l bowles (10 risultati)

Original Green Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Fifth Edition. viii, 205pp. A.e.g. Boards blind stamped & spine decorated in gilt. Tissue covered frontis. printed from a drawing on stone by W. Gauci of a St. Francis of Assisi style sylvan scene with the Andes in the background; a light water stain just affects the image at its fore margin. Rear board is also water stained externally at the same edge. Internally the book is unaffected with only an occasional light spot of foxing , a bold 19th century signature on the ffep and a pasted in catalogue entry for the book quoting Byron's observation of it that ' .a poet's last poem should be his best is the highest praise.'.…

Blue Pebble Grained Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Frontisportrait engraved by W. Humphreys xlv, (i), 118, (ii) pubs ads. Vignette engraving by (Mary?) Byfield. Half title present. Offsetting from portrait to title page & occasional spot of foxing as well as the partial erasure from the ffep of what appears to read "Please return to Bremhill Vicarage." Being Bowles' residence till his death in 1845 the supposition that this might be from his library seems reasonable. Red Morocco label lettered in gilt. Cloth covering lightly worn with split just starting at head of spine's junction with rear board.…

Boards. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 149 Pp. First Edition. The Major Antiquarian Work By Bowles, An English Priest, Poet And Critic. An Interesting Study On Avebury And The Philosophy Of The Druids, Drawing On Biblical, Archeological, And Historical Sources. (Coleridge Read And Enthusiastically Reviewed Bowles' Poetry, And It Was Very Well Received By Wordsworth.) This Copy Complete In The Original Boards And Endpapers, With Original Spine Label (Somewhat Age-Darkened), Hinges Solid, Immaculate Interior.…

Unbound. Condizione: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 32 pages. Disbound tract. Page dimensions: 216 x 135mm. "First, I confidently reply, I have never 'aspersed' Pope 'for a sordid money-getting passion!'" - page 5.; 8vo.

Textual illusts, 149 + 1pp (advert), untrimmed in early qtr cloth, paper boards, lacks label on spine, spine slightly rubbed to edges, with a couple of short splits, small portion chipped from foot. One of only 250 copies printed. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WILTSHIRE - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ).…

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condizione: Good. Condition Notes: A little faded at the spine and onto the margins of the boards with the title plate chipped. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Hinges weak fore and aft. The plates lightly spotted throughout. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise; Hardback. Purple boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9" x 5½" (1.2 kg); pp (xvi) 362 (lxiii); Includes: Line drawings; Black & white plates (14) including the frontispiece; Genealogical tables (some folding); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #192224 ||. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Xvi + 374pp + lxiii, 14 plates and 5 pedigrees, complete as listed, odd spotting of prelims, bound in half leather and blue pebbled cloth. Spine and corners rubbed, Bookplate formed of intertwined letterd SJT.; Large Octavo.

Seventh edition. viii, 9-38pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's green roan-backed pictorial paper boards. Heavily marked and worn, without lower board, upper board held by cords only. Small hole to title page, contemporary inked ownership inscription to vers. A rare survival, in original unsophisticated state, of a selection of poems intended for a juvenile readership by Church of England clergyman William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850). The compositions were written originally for the poor children of his own parish, the object being to 'briefly describe the most obvious images in country life.in language in which the simplest might understand' and to impress upon them 'a love of natural scenes.sympathy and religion'. All editions are scarce (indeed the majority are entirely unrecorded), with this seventh edition being no exception; OCLC records a single copy at Winchester College. COPAC adds no further. Size: 8vo.…

First edition. [4], xi, [1], 111pp, [1]. With a half-title and an initial leaf of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed, chipping to spine. Recent book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, scattered spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of half-title: 'With the Author's Respects / June 4th 1822'. The first edition, in original state, of a blank verse poem by Church of England clergyman William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850) that takes as its inspiration the rebellions of the Danes and earls against William the Conqueror. The work was not as favourably reviewed as his earlier efforts. The Eclectic Review (1823) wrote: 'We have that respect for Mr. Bowles as an old acquaintance, that would lead us to speak as favourably as we can of his present production; but the truth is, that he has attempted something above his reach. This, in a young writer, would bespeak a commendable ambition: in a veteran, it indicates a mistaken estimate of his powers'. Jackson p.481. Size: 8vo.…

Unbound. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. "Third Edition, with Alterations, especially for the Pamphleteer." Title continues: "Whether Poetry be more immediately indebted to what is Sublime or Beautiful in the Works of Nature, or the Works of Art?" 61 pages. Disbound tract. Page dimensions: 216 x 136mm. Title leaf detached from remainder of text block.; 8vo.…