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Edité par Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73 Cheapside, London, 1824
Vendeur : Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. A New Edition, Carefully Revised. Volume IV only of 4 volume set. 481pp. Maroon cloth library binding, gold stamped spine. Light general wear, tight and clean internally. Harvard Univ. Library bookplate with "released" stamp on plate. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Edité par Thomas Tegg; W. Hanwell and J. Parker 1802-1824, London, 1802
Leather. Etat : Very Good. None (illustrateur). A wonderful leatherbound history of poetry from the eleventh to eighteenth century, complete in four volumes, along with two volumes of the author's own poetry. First published in three volumes between 1774-1781, this work is generally regarded as being the first narrative English literary history.Written by Thomas Warton (1728-1790) an English literary historian also remembered for being Poet Laureate, appointed in 1792. This was his most important and best-known work, and in its first edition, only covered until the sixteenth century.Complete in six volumes.With an illustrated frontispiece of the author.Containing the bookplate of John Cann Bailey (1864-1931), a literary critic and chairman of the National Trust. His works include 'The Claims of French Poetry', 'Poets and Poetry', and 'An Anthology of English Elegies'.With charming gilt detail to the spines and an armorial stamp to the covers. In a full calf binding. Externally a trifle rubbed to the spines, in particular to the tail of volumes I and III; volume I is cracked along the front joint. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. Internally, generally firmly bound; the front hinges of volume I, II is cracked but remaining firm. Pages are bright and clean, bar the odd mark and spot. Very Good. book.
Edité par Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73 Cheapside, 1824
Vendeur : Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Vellum. Etat : Very Good. New Edition Carefully Revised. Four volumes bound in contemporary vellum, backs with gilt tooled decorations in four compartments, morocco labels lettered in gilt, gray end papers. Frontispiece of the author in Volume I. Very Good, bookplate of Tobias Smollett scholar Lewis Mansfield Knapp Vol. I paste down and name in ink front end page dated 1861, vellum soiled, small notation in ink title page Vol. I, labels Vols. I - III rubbed. A handsome and quite sturdily bound set. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.