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Edité par Amberley Publishing, 2018
ISBN 10 : 1445679310ISBN 13 : 9781445679310
Vendeur : Goldstone Books, Llandybie, Royaume-Uni
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paperback. Etat : Very Good. All orders are dispatched the following working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we have over 500,000 books in stock. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
Edité par Amberley Pub Plc, 2018
ISBN 10 : 1445679310ISBN 13 : 9781445679310
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
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Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 96 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.55 inches. In Stock.
Edité par Printed at the office of the Chicago American, Corner of Lake and South water-Streets., Chicago, 1839
Vendeur : David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, Etats-Unis
8pp, folded but spine loosened. Some dusting and mild toning, untrimmed, generously margined with some blank margin tears. Good+. McMurtrie originally called this rare Sermon "the first work of a literary character printed in Chicago." His later edition renders it probably the second such work. "St. James was the first Episcopal church in Chicago. The church building was opened for worship on Easter Sunday, 1837. Hallam came to Chicago in 1834 as a missionary of the Domestic Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was the first rector of St. James Parish and served for a short time as rector of Trinity Parish when it was organized in 1841-42. He resigned and returned east in 1843" [Byrd]. Page [3] prints a letter from, among others, John Kinzie and Isaac Arnold, requesting "a copy for publication." Byrd 452. McMurtrie 23. OCLC 16076311 [2- Lincoln Library, Newberry] as of September 2022. Not in American Imprints, Sabin, or the online sites of AAS, Library of Congress, or the University of Illinois.
Edité par Stamford: printed by Francis Howgrave, 1742
Vendeur : Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
4to, pp. [viii], 61; with an engraved frontispiece; bound in full brown morocco, gilt, spine and edges gilt, by Riviere. First edition of a remarkable poem on cock-fighting, described by the author in his dedication as a 'diversion. daily growing into esteem'. The author was himself an enthusiast of this violent sport. Much of the verse is devoted to the breeding of birds and the hatching of eggs, but the poem concludes with a vivid, if crudely-written, description of an actual match, with the spectators engaged in excited wagering: Thus circling round the glitt'ring Guineas fly, As various Odds become the gen'ral Cry, And Five to Two the nice Advent'rers ply Now hostile Rage each daring Foe maintains, And Death as Fate inclines alternate Reigns, In various Shapes the missive Blow appears, And dire Destruction 'midst the Conflict bears; Now purple Life unloads the turgid Veins, And gushing down the crouded Circus stains, Or stagnates, swells the Throat, and vital Air restrains. (pp. 53-55) The odds are explained by one of the author's many informative footnotes: 'Five to two is a common Bett with the Groom Porters, when the Cocks on both Sides are judg'd of an Equality, against naming the Side which wins the following Battles, but if either Party be judg'd superior to the other, their Bett is then Five and a Half to Two against the weakest winning two together.' Particular attention is paid to the sharp metal spurs attached to the birds' feet, to make the contest lethal. A reference to an 'ingenious artist' named Smith is glossed: 'Mr. Thomas Smith, near Katherine-Street, being allow'd the most curious and noted Maker of Silver Cock-Weapons.' As printed here, the lines of the poem are very widely spaced, and this with some uneven inking gives the book a striking and distinctly provincial appearance. Francis Howgrave established his press in Stamford in 1732, where he published the Stamford Mercury, a newspaper which lasted for much of the 18th century. The Hallams were an old Lincolnshire family, and this Isaac Hallam is quite likely an ancestor of the historian Henry Hallam, and thus of his son Arthur Henry Hallam, Tennyson's friend. The book has a two-page list of subscribers, including the printer himself, as well as Mr. Thomas Howgrave, Sir Thomas Trollope (1691-1784, great-grandfather of the novelist), Thomas Trollope, and T. M. Trollope: the Trollopes were also from Lincolnshire. The frontispiece by Emanuel Bowen shows three gentleman, one holding a bird, one a sack and key, and the other a numbered scroll. Foxon H6. This is a fine copy of a very rare Lincolnshire imprint: Foxon locates just three copies (BL, Clark and Yale), and ESTC adds only one more, at the Huntington.