Simpson percy editor (10 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. lxiv, 176pp. Deep blue cloth boards (still strong and bright, gently rubbed at edges in places). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a previous owner's name on endpaper. In its original dust jacket (a little toned and rubbed at edges, sunned around spine, a few mild marks). This volume has three purposes - it reproduces an authoritative version of Johnson's original text; and, through an extensive, heavily researched introduction, seeks to solve the problem of its date and composition; and to illustrate its literary relations and its faithful picture of contemporary London.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Undated UK reprint (c.1990?) of the 1933 supplement Large octavo Paperback 16 pages Facsimile of the book printed by Thomas Hackett London 1585 Very condition No inscriptions. Comes in specially printed envelope.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Undated USA reprint (c.1990?) of the 1909 Malone Society/ Oxford University Press edition Includes the 1933 supplement Large octavo Hardback c.100 pages Facsimile of the book printed by Thomas Hackett London 1584/5 Fine condition No inscriptions.

Both in good condition, lightly aged. ONE: 2pp, 12mo. He 'must bear the entire blame' for 'an indiscretion', and is 'exceedingly sorry'. 'Nothing was said between us in regard to the giving or withholding of addresses, & I had not at that time considered the point. But finding that the drafter of the letter had added his address, I & the fourth signatory added ours & I ventured to add yours - putting your business address, as one is apt to do, but in this case I admit most thoughtlessly, merely because I did not know your private one.' He asks him to 'use this letter as you think fit', explaining that 'The whole thing had to be arranged in a hurry at the last'. TWO: 2pp, 12mo. He has consulted with 'Vaughan', who 'thinks it wiser to take no further notice, having made our protest'. Despite there being points on which he would have liked to reply, Herford considers this 'the more dignified course'. 'It is he, not we, who is open to the charge of knowing better than the government: as usual it has been reserved for the clergyman to make proposals at once more timid & more cruel than any which commended themselves to the lay intelligence'.…

Hardcover. Etat : Brand New. 1st edition. 484 pages. 8.75x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. An 11 volume complete set uniformly bound in the publisher's green hardback bindings with upper covers and spines all blocked in gilt; all 11 vols. very firm, square and tight with no snags or splits; contents equally clean and tight, not showing any pen-marks, just a former owner bookplate neatly affixed to the pastedowns. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. A very presentable set of books in very uniform condition.…

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good (+). No Jacket. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly foxed, with tanned end papers and no bumping to corners. Uncut upper page edges. Front and lower page edges untrimmed. Unpaginated. pp. Reprint of the play from the 16th century, prepared by Percy Simpson. Introduction, notes and grammar over eleven pages. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8.75 x 7 inches. …

Leather. Etat : Very Good. A smartly bound copy of this collection of poetry from seventeenth century English writer Robert Herrick. With a portrait frontispiece. The collected poetry of Robert Herrick, a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. With chapters containing the full book of Hesperides, his Nobel Numbers, and additional poems. With a full index of titles and first lines. Edited by Frederic William Moorman, an English poet and playwright. With a prefatory note by Percy Simpson, an English literary scholar. Bound in half crushed morocco with marbled boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the endpapers. Very Good. None (illustrateur). book.…

Full Morocco. Etat : Very Good. 446 pp. Full black morocco with gilt lettering to the spine and front cover. Endpapers marbled and all edges gilt. With a frontispeice. Thin paper edition. With a ribbon bookmark, loosely enclosed. Rubbing to the spine and edges. Binding firm. With a bookplate belonging to American scholar and poet Wilmon Brewer and his wife Katharine to the front pastedown. Internally clean. 8vo.…

6pp, 12mo. Paginated [1]-6. Lightly aged and a bit grubby. Folded twice. On six leaves of paper, which Herford has made up by tearing in half the 4to leaves of one of his students' essays. Complete, and signed at the end 'C H Herford'. Written in a close hand, with numerous deletions and emendations. He begins by describing how Shelley met his death, and his final writing, before dismissing the suggestion that he committed suicide: 'we may dismiss the utterly uncalled for suggestion that his own hand "lifted" the veil'. Citing Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in support, he also dismisses 'the theory, first broached a generation after his death, on dubious & indirect evidence, that his frail skiff was deliberately run down by native fishers who mistook it for the boat of the wealthy "milord" Byron'. Having dealt with these matters, he states that: 'The hundred years which have since passed have shown how limited, beyond the desolating catastrophe of the moment, was the power of that storm'. He discusses how the years in which Shelley lived - 'obscure, lonely, maligned, derided' - point 'towards oblivion & decay', in contrast with the poet's '"rich & strange" after-fame'. He attacks at length Matthew Arnold's assessment of Shelley, and contrasts the poet's attitude to loneliness ('a symbol of his own frailty & failure') with Wordsworth's ('the source of sublime feeling'). In his view, 'the prevalence in Shelley of this cloudland of sublime abstractions must not blind us to the fine, & even genial, human qualities which were especially his'. He quotes from the poet, stating that everyone 'can enjoy the company of this very companionable Shelley', but concluding with the thought that readers need to be persuaded that 'that dream of a humanity in which not force but hope & faith & love are the determining principles of social order, was not a thin abstraction spun by a metaphysical brain, but the vision of an ardent heart. Cor Cordium, - "heart of hearts", that, & not even "great poet", was the inscription set with the verses already quoted upon his grave, by the friend [i.e. Trelawney] who had plucked its physical symbol from the flames that consumed his body on the day of that sublime romantic funeral, by the resounding shore between the dazzling marble mountains & the deep blue Mediterranean Sea'. From the J. Cumming Walters papers.…