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Edité par Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, first edition, 1969, 1969
ISBN 10 : 0304934240ISBN 13 : 9780304934249
Vendeur : Wykeham Books, LONDON, Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale
Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm, xiv,337 pp, 8 plates ports. ; From the blurb - "This is Volume I of the most comprehensive biography of Browning yet, written. The recent renaissance of Browning scholarship; the publication, un- bowdlerised, of letters from him and to him; Miss Ward's own examination of letters still in manuscript in Europe, America, and New Zealand, and of an unpublished hymn of hate by a cousin, Cyrus Mason - all have contributed to this wider and more detailed study. This first volume covers the years to the death of Elizabeth when, to the public, she was the poet, he simply the poet's husband. It treats of his boyhood and the teen-age atheism and vegetarianism he caught from Shelley; the publication of Pauline, which did not sell a copy; the flicker of success with Paracelsus, snuffed out by the unreadability of Sordello', the love letters and the married life in Italy; the burden on Robert of Elizabeth's drug addiction (with which Julia Ward Howe taunted her) and her unbalanced spiritualism. For Miss Ward this is the period of Browning's greatest poetry - Men and Women - which has so profoundly affected the poets of our own century - T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell. She gives considerable time to the dramatic monologue, of which he is the supreme master; and to Christmas-Eve and Easter- Day, in which his mind thrusts vividly into the Chapel religion of his boyhood, into Catholicism and Liberal Protestantism, and concludes that the first is closest to God. Because no writer lives his life in a vacuum, Miss Ward has made a careful study of Browning's relations with his con-temporaries-Carlyle, Ruskin, Tennyson, John Stuart Mill, Henry James, George Sand, Thackeray, the Hawthornes, to say nothing of Napoleon III whom Elizabeth so improbably idolised." Bookplate of Edward F. Lydall on front pastedown endpaper. Otherwise Good in used dustwrapper.
Edité par Cassell & Company Ltd., first edition, 1969, 1969
ISBN 10 : 0304931675ISBN 13 : 9780304931675
Vendeur : Wykeham Books, LONDON, Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale
Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm, [15], 331 pp, ills. From the blurb: "This second volume [of Maisie Ward's biography] . sheds new light on the quality of Browning's puzzling involvement with the world about him after Elizabeth died. Browning's often repeated detachment from the world during these years was, as Miss Ward points out, only an apparent one. The England that had been so cold to him while Elizabeth was alive welcomed him with open arms after his return from Italy. His life became a series of galas and honouring dinners, particularly after the aristocratic world took him up feverishly. Miss Ward examines his relationship with Lady Ashburton and other women of High Society to determine whether Browning ever loved again after his wife's death. This many-sided world into which he was plunged included friendships and disputes with many great people of the time. The book provides fascinating sketches of many of them: Carlyle, Swinburne, the Rossetti brothers, Matthew Arnold, Alfred and Emily Tennyson, Anne Thackeray, Mary Gladstone, Henry James, Charlotte Bronte, and Browning's close friend and publisher, George Smith. Here, too, is a particularly perceptive analysis of Browning's relationship with his son who, much spoiled during Elizabeth's lifetime, was never adequately able to come to grips with the private responsibilities and obligations of a grown man. Yet the man who was so involved in the social amenities of Victorian England, and they were considerable, was also the poet of The Ring and the Book and other great philosophical and historical poetry during this time. Could this great poet be the Robert Browning of dinner parties, so well groomed, so elegantly dressed, so full of small talk? Did one man write while the other was dining out, as Henry James suggests?" Bookplate of Edward F. Lydall on front pastedown endpaper, otherwise Good in used dustwrapper.
Edité par Cassell and Company Ltd, London, first edition, 1969, 1969
ISBN 10 : 0304933791ISBN 13 : 9780304933792
Vendeur : Wykeham Books, LONDON, Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale
Cloth, 4to, 227, [1] pp. From the blurb: "[The book is] a compendium of key facts in the history of all aspects of the art. Clearly in so wide a field, which includes not only the history of the invention of printing, of its practitioners and of its spread throughout Europe and the world, but also of printing machinery, of type foundries, of type design and of letter forms, of chemical processes in printing and of book and newspaper illustration, to mention but some of the topics covered, great care has had to be exercised both in the selection from this mass of material and in its presentation. Every effort has been made to avoid any particular bias either national or to any one aspect of printing or publishing history, and the author's aim has been to provide the widest possible range of information rather than to enter into detailed discussion of any particular topic. . an index of over 10,000 references has been provided as a key to this storehouse of solid factual information." Minor edgewear to boards, otherwise Good.
Edité par Cassell and Company Ltd, London, first edition, 1969, 1969
ISBN 10 : 0304933791ISBN 13 : 9780304933792
Vendeur : Wykeham Books, LONDON, Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale
Cloth, 4to, 227, [1] pp. From the blurb: "[The book is] a compendium of key facts in the history of all aspects of the art. Clearly in so wide a field, which includes not only the history of the invention of printing, of its practitioners and of its spread throughout Europe and the world, but also of printing machinery, of type foundries, of type design and of letter forms, of chemical processes in printing and of book and newspaper illustration, to mention but some of the topics covered, great care has had to be exercised both in the selection from this mass of material and in its presentation. Every effort has been made to avoid any particular bias either national or to any one aspect of printing or publishing history, and the author's aim has been to provide the widest possible range of information rather than to enter into detailed discussion of any particular topic. . an index of over 10,000 references has been provided as a key to this storehouse of solid factual information." Booklabel on front free endpaper, otherwise Very Good in slightly yellowed dustwrapper within protective sleeve.
Edité par Published by Cassell & Company Ltd., 37-38 St. Andrew's Hill, London First Edition . 1969., 1969
Vendeur : Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Edition originale
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original indigo cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo 9½'' x 7''. Contains 212 pp with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Rubbing to the front board, contents in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LONDON (Londinium).
Edité par Published by Cassell & Company Ltd., 37-38 St. Andrew's Hill, London First Edition . 1969., 1969
Vendeur : Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Edition originale
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original indigo cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 7''. Contains 212 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Tiny rubs to the spine tips and lower corners. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped 50/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ARCHAEOLOGY (Roman Britain).
Edité par Published by Cassell & Company Ltd., 35 Red Lion Square, London First Edition . London 1969., 1969
Vendeur : Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Edition originale
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cobalt blue paper covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 346 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. Fine condition book in near Fine condition photographic dust wrapper with superficial wear to the edges, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 304934674 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).
Edité par Published by Cassell & Company Ltd., 37-38 St. Andrew's Hill, London First Edition . 1969., 1969
Vendeur : Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Edition originale
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original indigo cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo 9½'' x 7''. Contains 212 pp with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Tiny rubs to the spine tips and lower corners. Very Good condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped 50/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. LONDON (Londinium).
Edité par Published by Cassell & Company Ltd., 35 Red Lion Square, London First Edition . 1969., 1969
Vendeur : Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Edition originale
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered in gilt. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains three double-page map, (x), 276 pp with archive photographs. Small ink name to the front paste down. Near Fine condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with short closed tears to the spine ends and front gutter, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0304933767 SPORT [Golf].