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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Cloth & bds; 8vo.,643pp. Tight. No names or other markings.Fine.in Fine D/j.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Cloth & boards, 8vo.,293pp. Tight. No names or other markings. A volume in the 'Oxford History Of English Literature' series. Fine in Fine D/j., in jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good-, hard cover cover bright gilt lettering. light rubbing to corners o therwise nice, block tight, pages clean, with remainder stamp to inside cover.

314pp. Index. 20 b/w illustrations. Very good. Inscription.

356pp. Index. Very good.

Cloth, 8vo, 669, [1] pp. From the preface: This work is an abridged and revised version of The Oxford Companion to French Literature, first published in 1959. Abridgement has been effected by condensation and amalgamation rather than omission, in the belief that the briefest mention is more helpful than silence and that this approach would best preserve the unique scope and utility of the Companion which ranges tar beyond the strictly literary field. Many new articles have been added, and a great many existing articles revised or expanded, in an attempt to bring the whole work more nearly up to date.". Good.

Cloth, 8vo, xxvi, 339 pp, xii plates, ills. 531 entries "Concerned with everything written by and about Cowper and published during his lifetime and the thirty-seven years following his death in 1800". Full bibliographic descriptions are given for all Cowper's primary works, including early writings, hymns, poems, his review in the Analytical review, translations, posthumously published prose works, edited and collected works. Very Good.

Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm, xviii, 294 pp. Approximately 4,000 entries. Split to upper one-third of front joint and spine a little worn, bookplate of The British Council on front pastedown endpaper and stamps on front endpapers, contents otherwise Good.

SAINTS. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, xxiv, 435 pp. ; Near Very Good.

Cloth, 8vo, xxvii, 289 pp. 1,632 entries. From the introduction: "The volume to which this is a Supplement was published in 1955 by the Oxford Historical Society as New Series Volume XI. As there was a delay of nearly three years in printing the copy for this volume, it was eventually produced with a short Addenda. Two further Addenda and Corrigenda appeared in issues of the Bodleian Library Record for February 1958 and April 1960.The present Supplementary Volume cumulates all these Addenda and also includes all other relevant items we have found.The first portion records Addenda and Corrigenda entries In the Bibliography of 1955: the second lists additions to that work. The Classification remains basically unchanged." Front board scuffed, otherwise Near Very Good.

Cloth, small 8vo, viii, 62 pp. 178 entries. An interesting annotated and classified checklist of works by and about Jane Austen. Includes all editions of the novels up to 1890. Coverage of biography and exegisis is limited "to what seemed to deserve record". An ex-library copy with tapemarks on the boards, a label and tapemarks on the front pastedown endpaper, stamp on the front free endpaper, and a label and tapemarks on the rear pastedown endpaper.

Cloth, 8vo, 21 cm, xix, 567 pp, maps. An attempt at a general history of England and the English by the General Editor of the authoritative "Oxford History of England" series. "The purpose of this book is to show how the English people came to form a community; what kind of community it has been in its successive stages of development; and what have been its relations with the other communities to which English people have belonged, or with which they have had dealingsThe book is not in any sense a shortened version or summary of the series of volumes called the Oxford History of England. It does not cover the same ground. It omits some subjects which those volumes treat at length. Where it deals with the same subjects it does not always rely on the same authorities or arrive at the same conclusions." Edges a little duststained, one corner bumped, otherwise Very Good in used slightly edgetorn dustwrapper.

Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, 3 pp.1., 247, [1] pp. Contents : I. Medieval Drama; II. The Carol and Fifteenth-Century Lyric; III. Popular Narrative Poetry and the Ballad; IV. Malory; Bibliography; Index.

Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, xix, 492 pp, 8 plates. From the Introduction: "Of the many women who have made a place for themselves in English literary history perhaps none has been more often the subject of controversy than Hester Lynch Piozzi, the friend of Dr. Johnson, the rival of Boswell, the sprightly, irrepressible Mistress of Streatham. In her own time she was a well-known figure in London society, with steadfast friends and a host of bitter enemies. To-day, even in the perspective of over a century, she still arouses ardent admiration or intense dislike. The late Professor Sir Walter Raleigh once remarked to Mr. A. Edward Newton, after examining some of Mrs. Piozzi's papers, 'What a dear, delightful person she was! I have always wanted to meet her'; and Mr. Newton himself declared that of all the feminine writers of English literature he would most like to have known Mrs. Piozzi.1 Yet, in contrast, the late Lord Lansdowne called her 'a woman essentially vain, vulgar, and false, intolerable as a parent and rightly kept at a distance by her offspring'. What was there about this eighteenth-century brewer's wife which even in the twentieth century can arouse such intense feeling? Why does it seem impossible to arrive at any general estimate of her character? These are some of the questions which I hope to answer in the present biography. There is one obvious reason why Mrs. Piozzi is difficult to understand. Throughout her life she was a bundle of contradictions, a chameleon changing colour with her varying surroundings. Consequently, any over-emphasis on the years just preceding her second marriage makes her appear giddy, self- centred, and unstable; yet a similar concentration on her early life with Thrale or her last years with Piozzi shows an intelligent woman, self-sacrificing, and dependable. Random excerpts from her letters are apt, therefore, to be misleading, for it is not possible to make an accurate estimate of her character simply by examining a portion of her correspondence." A little cocked, covers lightly rubbed, otherwise Good.

Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, vi, [1], 621, [1] pp. From the blurb - "This volume covers that period in English literature which of all periods has most attracted the interest of the twentieth century. While the minor authors are not neglected, the great poets and prose- writers - Jonson, Donne, Bacon, Browne, Hobbes, and Milton among them - receive extended treatment. Chapters on the background of the age and on its political, scientific, and religious thought show it as one in which the transition from the medieval to the modern world was accelerated. There are chronological tables; and a very full bibliography is at once a guide to seventeenth-century writings and to the latest research. Contents I. The Background of the Age. II. Popular Literature and Translations. III. The Successors of Spenser: Song-Books and Miscellanies IV. Jonson, Donne, and Their Successors. V. The Literature of Travel. VI. Essays and Characters VII. History and Biography. VIII. Political Thought. IX. Science and Scientific Thought. X. Religion and Religious Thought. XI Heroic Verse. XIl Milton. Conclusion. Chronological Tables. Bibliography. Index. Near Very Good in slightly torn dustwrapper.

Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, xxviii, 338 pp, maps, facs. Scuff to spine, otherwise Near Very Good.

E Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm, xlii, [1], 393, [1] pp, 8 pp publisher's catalogue. Mis-titled on the spine ".1666 to 1701". From the preface - "This volume is a continuation of Oxford Council Acts, 1626-65, by Dr. H. E. Salter, M.A., and myself published in 1933, and carries the editing of the Council Acts down to the end of the Mayoral Year 1700-1. The records are full of historical interest, reflecting as they do the political and religious strife which raged during the uneasy years of the later Stuarts. The freedom of local self-government was not only challenged but destroyed, as testifies the blank which occurs in the Council Records from May to September 1688. It was during these months, when the City charter had been withdrawn by James II, that the City, for the first time since its incorporation, was governed not by its own-freely elected Mayor and Council, but by nominees of the King. .The quarrels between the City and University continue, quarrels concerning noctivagation, the clerkship of the market, privilege, taxation, &c., and sometimes the City and sometimes the University is triumphant. The mention of certain trades such as coachmaker, harness-maker, Orangeman, and coffeeman, which although some of them must have existed yet do not occur in the previous volumes, testifies to the in- crease in the amenities of life, and while the clockmaker, ivory turner, cabinet-maker, stone-cutter, and carver, contribute to the adornment of houses, the heelmaker, linen-draper, flaxdresser, silk dyer, and perriwig-maker, contribute to that of persons. " 'Withdrawn' library stamp on front free endpaper, covers rubbed and scuffed, torn at head of spine and head of rear joint, contents Good.

Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, xxviii, 303 pp, [12] leaves of plates, ills. From the blurb: "This history of the O.U.P. is published in the year in which the Press celebrates 500 years of printing in Oxford. Great names in the early history of the Press, like Laud, Fell, and Blackstone, laid sound foundations, but as late as 1870 it was thought necessary to remind the Delegates that publishing books was not 'entirely beside their function': as late as the 1890s there were still those prepared to censure the University for allowing its Press to publish the secular and profane literature of Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. The transformation of the Press from a lucrative Bible house into a great national and international publishing business was rapid. Progress may have appeared at first to be stumbling and sporadic, but this book, despite its episodic approach and its concentration on a few outstanding individuals, is essentially a study of continuity. Like any ancient institution that has survived, the Press has done so through the permanent pursuit of an impossible goal, modernity. The process of modernization continues, but given the curious agglomeration of businesses, the anomalous consequences of organic growth, and historical accident over 500 years, it is likely to remain, like the men who in the past governed its destiny, 'really very odd'. " Very Good in Near Very Good dustwrapper.

Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, xxviii, 303 pp, [12] leaves of plates, ills. From the blurb: "This history of the O.U.P. is published in the year in which the Press celebrates 500 years of printing in Oxford. Great names in the early history of the Press, like Laud, Fell, and Blackstone, laid sound foundations, but as late as 1870 it was thought necessary to remind the Delegates that publishing books was not 'entirely beside their function': as late as the 1890s there were still those prepared to censure the University for allowing its Press to publish the secular and profane literature of Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. The transformation of the Press from a lucrative Bible house into a great national and international publishing business was rapid. Progress may have appeared at first to be stumbling and sporadic, but this book, despite its episodic approach and its concentration on a few outstanding individuals, is essentially a study of continuity. Like any ancient institution that has survived, the Press has done so through the permanent pursuit of an impossible goal, modernity. The process of modernization continues, but given the curious agglomeration of businesses, the anomalous consequences of organic growth, and historical accident over 500 years, it is likely to remain, like the men who in the past governed its destiny, 'really very odd'. " Fore-edges spotted, otherwise Very Good in dustwrapper.

Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, x, 771 pp, 2 maps. From the blurb: "This work is intended for readers who want to find the explanation of an allusion or recall a plot, to fit a character to a book or an author to a title, to relate a king to his dynasty or a movement to its century.There are about 6,000 entries varying from brief descriptions to longer articles. Most are devoted to writers - poets, novelists, dramatists, and critics, mainly, but also historians, savants, scientists, statesmen, and philosophers. The giants are here, and their less great but undeniably enduring fellows. Here, also, are the large class of minores, who keep a place in literary remembrance by one work, or by their associations, or more dubiously, because they have acquired squatters' rights. And here, too, are the small but lively class of eccentrics, beloved of critics. The articles give the relevant details of the author's life and thought, enumerate his works, and give dates of first publication. They also describe his most significant works unless the works themselves are dealt with under separate headings. Other articles throw light on historical, geographical, social, economic, and political events and circumstances; factors in the development of French literature, humanism, and the part played by genres or movements. The period covered ranges from about A.D. 400 to the years immediately preceding the 1939-45 war. .No one-volume work of this type can be complete, but this Companion may modestly claim to be comprehensive. Arrangement is alphabetical and the cross-referencing is lavish. A summary list of background reading is suggested in Appendix I.". Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

cloth, dustjacket, 8vo xvi+282 pp., ills. companion volume to the book 'Subtle is the Lord ' by the same author; about Einstein's life, his philosophy his contacts with other personalities; LIKE NEW condition.

Cloth, 8vo, xxvii, 289 pp. 1,632 entries. From the introduction: "The volume to which this is a Supplement was published in 1955 by the Oxford Historical Society as New Series Volume XI. As there was a delay of nearly three years in printing the copy for this volume, it was eventually produced with a short Addenda. Two further Addenda and Corrigenda appeared in issues of the Bodleian Library Record for February 1958 and April 1960.The present Supplementary Volume cumulates all these Addenda and also includes all other relevant items we have found.The first portion records Addenda and Corrigenda entries In the Bibliography of 1955: the second lists additions to that work. The Classification remains basically unchanged." Very Good.

Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, xxviii, 303 pp, [12] leaves of plates, ills. From the blurb: "This history of the O.U.P. is published in the year in which the Press celebrates 500 years of printing in Oxford. Great names in the early history of the Press, like Laud, Fell, and Blackstone, laid sound foundations, but as late as 1870 it was thought necessary to remind the Delegates that publishing books was not 'entirely beside their function': as late as the 1890s there were still those prepared to censure the University for allowing its Press to publish the secular and profane literature of Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. The transformation of the Press from a lucrative Bible house into a great national and international publishing business was rapid. Progress may have appeared at first to be stumbling and sporadic, but this book, despite its episodic approach and its concentration on a few outstanding individuals, is essentially a study of continuity. Like any ancient institution that has survived, the Press has done so through the permanent pursuit of an impossible goal, modernity. The process of modernization continues, but given the curious agglomeration of businesses, the anomalous consequences of organic growth, and historical accident over 500 years, it is likely to remain, like the men who in the past governed its destiny, 'really very odd'. " Very Good in a dustwrapper. with a tiny closed tear to the head of the rear panel.

Cloth, 8vo, xii, 701 pp. From the blurb: "This volume is concerned with English Literature from 1700 to 1740, a period in which men were anxious to discover the limits of reason, and in which nature poetry was invigorated by the new wonder aroused by science. Though most space is given to Swift, Pope, and Defoe, various 'movements' and clashes of thought are described by illustration from minor, even minimal, writers, and through the separate consideration given to the drama, criticism, philosophy, history, and memoirs. The beginnings of various developments are touched upon, but the age is shown to be of value not merely because it foreshadows the Romantic Revival, but as making an important contribution of its own." Includes bibliography and index. Very Good in used and price-clipped dustwrapper.

Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, xxviii, 303 pp, [12] leaves of plates, ills. From the blurb: "This history of the O.U.P. is published in the year in which the Press celebrates 500 years of printing in Oxford. Great names in the early history of the Press, like Laud, Fell, and Blackstone, laid sound foundations, but as late as 1870 it was thought necessary to remind the Delegates that publishing books was not 'entirely beside their function': as late as the 1890s there were still those prepared to censure the University for allowing its Press to publish the secular and profane literature of Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. The transformation of the Press from a lucrative Bible house into a great national and international publishing business was rapid. Progress may have appeared at first to be stumbling and sporadic, but this book, despite its episodic approach and its concentration on a few outstanding individuals, is essentially a study of continuity. Like any ancient institution that has survived, the Press has done so through the permanent pursuit of an impossible goal, modernity. The process of modernization continues, but given the curious agglomeration of businesses, the anomalous consequences of organic growth, and historical accident over 500 years, it is likely to remain, like the men who in the past governed its destiny, 'really very odd'. " Near Fine in price-clipped dustwrapper which has a sunned spine.

Cloth. 8vo, xii, 534, [1] pp. Translated from the Welsh by H.I. Bell with an Appendix by the translator covering the first half of the twentieth century. Covers somewhat rubbed, endpapers slightly marked, otherwise Good.

Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, xxviii, 303 pp, [12] leaves of plates, ills. From the blurb: "This history of the O.U.P. is published in the year in which the Press celebrates 500 years of printing in Oxford. Great names in the early history of the Press, like Laud, Fell, and Blackstone, laid sound foundations, but as late as 1870 it was thought necessary to remind the Delegates that publishing books was not 'entirely beside their function': as late as the 1890s there were still those prepared to censure the University for allowing its Press to publish the secular and profane literature of Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. The transformation of the Press from a lucrative Bible house into a great national and international publishing business was rapid. Progress may have appeared at first to be stumbling and sporadic, but this book, despite its episodic approach and its concentration on a few outstanding individuals, is essentially a study of continuity. Like any ancient institution that has survived, the Press has done so through the permanent pursuit of an impossible goal, modernity. The process of modernization continues, but given the curious agglomeration of businesses, the anomalous consequences of organic growth, and historical accident over 500 years, it is likely to remain, like the men who in the past governed its destiny, 'really very odd'. " Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, xxxi, 759 pp. 4,782 entries. Aims to provide a full introduction to the contemporary manuscript and printed material relating to all aspects of British history in the first half of the nineteenth century, as well as to the more recent literature dealing with the period. Special attention is given to bibliographies and other guides. The dustwrapper is largely laminated with adhesive plastic which has some bubbles in the lamination, otherwise Near Very Good.

Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, xvi, 373, [1] pp. From the preface "Every writer about Coleridge must be conscious of his debt to the Narrative of James Dykes Campbell, which took its final form in 1894. own survey, like Campbell's, is a comparatively brief one, but it is able to draw upon a good deal of material which has accumulated during the last half-century, and some which, although probably known to him, he did not, in 1894, think it discreet to use. And, like Campbell, I have confined myself, in the main, to the limits of a narrative. .Much of the purely biographical interest lies, I think, in the rise and fall of Coleridge's many friendships. Into these he was apt to enter lightly. He was not unaware of the tendency; there was little, indeed, in his own psychology, or in the whole sphere of things, which he was unable, by flashes, to illumine. He had the gift of good companion- ship, could both feel and inspire strong affections, and was ready, at times, to take considerable trouble for others. But in friendship, as in all else, he lacked staying-power. His 'Estese' was the most pathetic of his dreams. The ultimate breach with the Wordsworths amounted, of course, to a major tragedy. But the same quality which determined it is traceable enough elsewhere. The chequered relations, throughout life, with Southey make a curious study. So, in a less degree, do those with Thomas Poole, George Coleridge, Daniel Stuart, Godwin, Davy, Charles Lloyd, Estlin, Mrs. Clarkson. Even with Charles Lamb, the tolerant and faithful, there was at least once a coolness. In this respect, it is possible to draw too sharp a distinction between the wander-years and those at Highgate. There, too, although Coleridge seems, except on one occasion, to have been happy with the Gillmans, resentments often flared up or lay smouldering in embers. It was not until the very end of life, when ill health and a premature old age had dulled his sensibilities, that he really became the serene philosopher of a legend. He who walks with Coleridge must tread thorny ways and pass through valleys of humiliation. " Covers rubbed, otherwise Good.

Cloth, 8vo, xxvi, 339 pp, xii plates, ills. 531 entries "Concerned with everything written by and about Cowper and published during his lifetime and the thirty-seven years following his death in 1800". Full bibliographic descriptions are given for all Cowper's primary works, including early writings, hymns, poems, his review in the Analytical review, translations, posthumously published prose works, edited and collected works. Near Very Good in a somewhat browned dustwrapper.