tichborne chidiock (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Excellent condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. li, 690 pp. Dustjacket. LCC: 9920831.

Softcover. Condizione: vg. First edition. Folio. 17pl. Seventeen sheets of unbound folded paper in paper covered boards potfolio with booklet with illustrated floral stapled wraps laid-in. Walter Stein's visual interpretation of Chidiock Tichborne's final poem, Elegy. Tichborne penned this poem in 1586 during his imprisonment in the Tower of London while awaiting execution for his alleged involvement in the babington Conspiracy, "an attempt to dethrone Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scotland." The booklet included is an essay from the seventh edition of "Curiosities of Literature" written by Isaac Disraeli in 1823, describing Tichborne's loyal life before his imprisonment. All seventeen plates illustrated with color and b&w reproductions of drawings, intended to represent respective lines from the poem which are written on the page. Inscribed on inside front board with date of November 4th, 1967. Scuffing to portfolio and slipcase boards. Paper chipped at few edges of slipcase. Very good condition.

unknown_binding. Condizione: Very Good. Thin pamphlet bound with string. No damage, internally clean. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 5 1/4 inches x 6 1/2 in., unpaginated [22]pp., printed in black and red on folded sheets. Black cloth spine and back cover, design-printed brown paper over the front cover. [Contents]: Hideki Tojo: Executed 23rd of December, 1948, Tokyo, Two Poems; Sir Walter Ralegh: Executed 29th of October, 1618, London, Epitaph; Tomoyuki Yamashita: Executed 23rd of February, 1946, Manila, Two Poems; Chidiock Tichborne: Executed 20th of September, 1586, London, Elegy.

First Edition. FOR THE OCCASION OF DEATH, Windhover Press, 1981, first edition, fine without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/220 copies (allegedly only 165 copies were produced). A fine press book.