orrery john boyle 5th earl (6 résultats)

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Etat : New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. London: A. Millar, 1752. First London edition. [iv]+339[1]+[9]p. Portrait frontispiece. Brown staining to borders of endpapers and to prelims up to frontispiece. Paper toned, especially title-page and frontispiece, but no foxing. Bound in old brown full calf boards with worn filleting to borders, worn at extremities, rebacked with new brown calf, five raised bands to spine, gilt lettering and decoration in compartments. Bookplate of Henry Brouncker, Boveridge, on front pastedown, his name also in manuscript on title-page. Old wormholes at foot of pages in second half of book,

8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait and pp. [ii], 62, 65-214, [8]; without the final advertisement leaf, text continuous despite pagination; nineteenth-century half calf, spine gilt. Bookplate of Edward Chatterton-Orpen. Third London edition.

Piece of paper, 14 x 7.5cm, signature on reverse of marbled paper, perhaps endpaper of book, and an ownership signature. Good condition.

Unbound. Etat : Very Good. None (illustrateur). First edition. The very scarce first London edition of Anglo-Irish writer John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery's parody of Horace. The very scarce first London edition. Very scarce in all editons.This First London Edition was published in the same year as a Dublin edition. Foxon B352: 'the precedence of London [B351] and Dublin editions is not clear'.An English language work, with instances of parallel Latin line.ESTC T35559A parodic work of poetry from Orrery, who was a leading Tory, a friend of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, and the author of works including 'Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift', and a translation of the letters of Pliny the Younger. Unbound, as issued. Significant handling marks to first and final leaves, most concentrated at title page tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, but with handling marks to heads of fore edges of leaves, and the odd spot. Very Good. book.