William somervile esq (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: very good. Large octavo. Green cloth with gilt pictorial design to front cover. 87pp. Numerous black and white line drawings by Hugh Thomson. Some rubbing at head and tail of spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. London : Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham, Union Buildings, Leather Lane; For John Sharpe, Opposite York House, Piccadily. 16vo. Two volumes in one. One engraving each with title pages, T.W. Tomkins, engraver. Volume 1, 162p. The Chase, Hobbinol (or the Rural Games), Field Sports, the Bowling Green and Miscellanies; Volume 2, 164pp. Odes, Epistles and Tales. Half leather, lightly stained at front edge of spine, parting at head. Heavily worn marbled boards, marbled endpapers. A charming thing. Somervile (1675 ? 1742) was an English poet especially remembered for "The Chace", in which he pioneered an early English georgic, elevating the literature of sporting pastimes.…

Condizione: Fair. Fifth. Two separate works, bound in the same volume Full leather with gilt border on covers and titles on spine Both covers and front endpapers detached, but otherwise in very good condition Bookplate of the artist Thomas Harcourt Powell on inside of front cover, but no other marks or damage 122, 81 pp.…

Hardback. Condizione: V.g. 1st Edition. THE CHASE ; To which is Annexed Field Sports. With a Sketch of the Author's Life; Including a Preface, critical and Explanatory; and Some Annotations on the Text and Nature of the Poem.Illus. half-title-page. xxxix, Illus. Chapter titles to the four books.followed by Field Sports 'A Poem', 135pp. 4 full page plates plus vignettes. Complete. Bound in the rubbed original full calf with gilt double rule borders and a fine floral border enclosed. Black morocco label with gilt titles and gilt double rules for bands and gilt decoration. FRONT BOARD DETACHED BUT OTHERWISE A NICE COPY.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. -----------Small book, 6 1/4" x 4", all edges gilt, 5 raised bands on spine, and skiny gilt line around edge of covers as a design. 135 pages with illustrations of sporting, including 8 in color !! (1804!)------------GOOD CONDITION, tight binding, light edgewear covers and spine-- both covers detached.…