Taine translated laun (8 risultati)

Red Cloth. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, former owner's inscription in ink on the ffep, overall a very clean used first edition! Inscription is dated 1900 so I am assuming this copy is from around the turn of the 20th century. 651 unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "History has been revolutionized, within a hundred years in Germany, within sixty years in France, and that by the study of their literatures. It was perceived that a work of literature is not a mere play of imagination, a solitary caprice of a heated brain, but a transcript of contemporary manners, a type of a certain kind of mind. It was concluded that one might retrace, from the monuments of literature, the style of man's feelings and thoughts for centuries back. The attempt was made, and it succeeded." ---- from the Introduction Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. No publication date. Books: Volume 1: 651 pages, Volume 2: 695 pages; both Very Good+, intact, clean, tight to the spine hinge, and unmarked pages. Part leather and marbleized paper boards and endpapers; a small surface stain on top edge of Volume 2. Top part of spine covering on Volume 1 has come loose. Printing and Edition Not Shown on the Copyright Page. Inside of front covers have prior owner's book plates and a notation in pencil on an endpaper in one. Overall dimensions for the set are 5 ¼" X 7½" X 3", and will require extra shipping and handling, due to extra weight and size. Dust Jacket: None, Both volumes show minimal shelf wear and browning from ageing. = = This B00K, Is Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped = Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift. = = World Wide Shipping, AVAILABLE. = =. Translated from the French by N. Van Laun. I, II. Very Good/+ (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. This four volume set is red cloth with black and gold titles on the spine, and gilt top edges. They are all tight, bright, and clean with no names or markings. There was no publication date listed, but assumed late 1800s. Each volume has light bumping and shelf wear at the spine ends. Volume 1 has a slight bit of a nibble (?)or roughness at the fore edge near the bottom. On the whole, they are very good plus ++. This is "Edition De Luxe". Because this is a weighty 4 volume set, a little extra postage is needed over the standard $3.85 listed by ABE Books.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 4 volume complete set. Green cloth hardcover boards with paper labels on the spines and gilt page edges. Illustrated with frontis portraits of noted authors such as Shakespeare and Burns. Boards with moderate wear and staining; pages dusty with rough page edges soiled.Bindings tight and complete. Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828 - 1893) was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.…

Hard back binding in publisher's original maroon cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [viii] 550 printed pages of text. Age spotting to the page edges and end papers, crossed out name to the front free end paper, spine very slightly sun darkened, small damp mark to the bottom of the front board, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.…

Leather. Condizione: Very Good. A handsome copy in half-leather over marbled boards, marbled page edges and endpapers. A clean, solid copy.

3: Cloth/Embossed Hardcover. Condizione: A: Book: Good or Better Cond. Condizione sovraccoperta: A:This Book Has No Dust Jacket. ohn Wurtele Lovell, New York, 1879. Complete in one volume. Translated from the French by Henri Van Laun, one of the masters at the Edinburgh Academy. New edition, with a preface dated 1873. Embossed cloth hardcover; 722 pages plus index; no dust jacket. This comprehensive history and critical study traces the development of English literature from the Saxons and Normans through the Renaissance, Elizabethan theatre, Restoration, eighteenth century, Romantic movement, and Victorian period. Taine examines literature in relation to national character, religion, philosophy, politics, social conditions, and historical change, with substantial discussion of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Addison, Swift, Byron, Dickens, Thackeray, Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Macaulay, Tennyson, and other major figures. Some fraying and wear at the spine ends and corners, with light rubbing and general age-related wear to the binding. Previous owner's handwritten inscription dated March 1893 on the title page; the remaining text is clean and the volume is complete, sound, firmly readable, and notably attractive for its age. A handsome nineteenth-century edition for a collector, literary scholar, student of English cultural history, or anyone building a classic home library. It would make a thoughtful and distinctive gift for a reader of English literature-or an especially satisfying gift for yourself. More: The Christian Renaissance, Milton, the Restoration, Dryden, the Revolution, Addison, Swift, the Novelists, the Poets, Ideas and Productions, Lord Byron, the Past and the Present, the Nobel Dickens, the Nobel Thackeray, Criticism and History & More. (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. new edition; Later Printing. 4 volumes complete. Tan leather spine and tips, marbled boards, endpapers, and page edges. Former owner's name on first blank. Edge rubbed, with minor stripping of the leather corners, wear on spine bands. Spine has gilt titling, decorations, darker leather pastedown on spine for translator's name, volume number. Despite flaws a solid and handsome set. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. …