Thomas hood edited william michael (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Undated edition, probably mid 19th century. Loosely bound, decorated blue cloth boards. Gilt closed page edges. Strongly faded spine, scuffing and small fading on covers. Gustave Dore and Alfred Thompson (illustratore).

Half Leather. Condizione: Fine. Reprint. This copy is in fine condition half bound in black calf with bright gilt titling and decoration the spine with raised bands to six compartments with the title to a tan panel to the second. There are marbled sides with matching marbled endpapers and marbled page edges all round. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is some mild spotting to the prelims. A dust wrapper is not called for. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This copy is undated but is believed to be circa 1880. Thomas Hood, 1799 -1845, was a British humorist and poet. After working in a counting house, and then studying engraving, Hood moved to Scotland, where he began to seriously write poetry. Before long Hood contributed humorous and poetical articles to the provincial newspapers and magazines. On his return to London in 1818 he applied himself to engraving, enabling him later to illustrate his various humours and fancies by quaint devices. In 1821, the editor of the London Magazine, was killed in a duel, and the periodical passed into the hands of some friends of Hood, who proposed to make him sub-editor. His installation into this post at once introduced him to the literary society of the time. In his short life Hood saw "Romantic" change into "Victorian": he took tea with Wordsworth, dined with Dickens. Hood's work mirrors this change. Much of his writing has intrinsic merit; some is memorable, its range impressive, its style often forward-looking, and all is valuable to anyone concerned with the transitional period, literary and social, which it reflects. Ref WWW 3.…

Harcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Second Series. 475 pages. B&W full-page plates. No dustjacket. No date but looks late 19th century. Very clean lighter green hardback binding, spine age-browned. Some wear with light fraying to spine-ends and boards' corners. Gilt-coloured decoration and lettering to spine and front board (three flowers to bottom left corner and interlace at top of front board). All page-edges gilt-colour. Light spotting to early and late pages o/w pages clean and tidy. Size: 7 1/4" Tall By 5" Wide. Illustrated Gustave Dore and Alfred Thompson (illustratore).…