essay sepulchres proposal erecting memorial de godwin william (12 résultats)

Small 8vo, engraved frontispiece by Hopwood after Hilton, and pp. xii, 116; frontispiece rather browned; in contemporary or original green cloth, spine defective. First edition. Published at Godwin's own expense, this essay was written in the winter of 1808-9: as he says in his candid preface, his intention was 'To write with fervour, and to revise at leisure'. The proposal was intended to inspire others to noble deeds, and the result is what Peter Marshall calls 'an elegant and whimsical essay', which ranges over a wide field. It was well received, but the suggestion ignored. See Marshall, William Godwin, pp. 281-2. Provenance. Inscription on title page and endpaper of John Davies, who was (according to a later pencil inscription) 'of the Manchester Philosophical Society'. This could be the man of that name (d. 1850), who was librarian of the Manchester Lit and Phil from 1819 to 1827, and was its secretary in the 1840s, but the hand looks to be rather later in the century than that.

Attractive contemporary Crown 8vo in original (lightly chipped) paper-boards with remnants (only) of original spine label. Frontispiece (corner margin water-stained) xii + 116pps. Uncut. Baronial bookplate.

xii, 116 pp. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo, rebound in modern pebbled cloth. First edition. Light foxing to the frontispiece and less on the title page; otherwise clean, tight and sound.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 116 pp. Rebound in brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on dark brown cloth spine. Binding very bright and clean. Previous owner's name in pencil on front blank endpaper. Leaves a bit age toned. There is no frontispiece. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. pp. xii, 116; b/w engraved frontispiece plate. Original publisher's paper covered boards with paper covered spine, binding good with paper chipped from spine and joints, rear board attached by cords only. Contents clean and tight, a few contemporary pen marks to the front free end paper, small contemporary annotation to page 103 in the same hand, paper untrimmed with good margins, minimal dust soiling to uncut edges. A very good copy. Size: 12mo. Book.

Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, wanting frontispiece, two small ink stains on inner margin of title only, neat signature on blank preliminary; very attractively bound in mid-nineteenth century half calf, textured cloth boards, back gilt with five raised bands, morocco label, speckled edges, brown endpapers, a remarkably crisp, clean textual copy of a very scarce work. 'In almost every ordinary church yard we may see altar-monuments, with the upper surface and some of the sides broken to pieces, and the whole a heap of ruins, even before they are fifty years old.' Godwin develops his thesis with passion, with fascinating references to the array and state of monuments in St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey, and an account of visits to Thetford, Valle Crucis Abbey, Ewelme, Kenilworth, Reading Abbey and the Seven Churches in Ireland. He concludes with a request for an atlas or catalogue of sepulchres along the lines of a traveller's guide, to be 'of a very different measure of utility from the 'Catalogue of Gentlemen's Seats' which is now appended to the 'Book of Post-Roads through Every Part of Great Britain'. Godwin's eccentric treatise was the favourite book of his daughter Mary Shelley. Lamb, writing to Coleridge, termed it 'a very pretty, absurd book about sepulchres'. NCBEL II, 1250; Tinker 1083.

FIRST EDITION. Engr. front. Uncut in orig. pale pink boards, rebacked with appropriate mauve paper; boards a little rubbed, corners worn. A scarce squib advocating wooden memorials for the great and the good.

FIRST EDITION. Engr. front., 12pp cata. for M.J. Godwin's New Books for Children. Sl. later half black calf, spine ruled & lettered in gilt; a little rubbed. Booklabels of the Reniers & James Jacob Welsh. Bookseller's ticket: Charles Hutt, Clement's Inn Gateway, London.

Cloth. Etat : Good. None (illustrateur). The first edition of this essay by William Godwin. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. With an illustrated frontispiece, bound without advertisements. Printer's colophon to verso of titile page 'Printed by B McMillan, Bow Street, Covent Garden' as well as to the final leaf. This essay discusses the sepulchres of the churches, abbeys and cathedrals in England and how Godwin feels there should be an atlas or catalogue. William Godwin was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered as one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. He was the father of Mary Godwin, who then became Mary Shelley through marriage to Percy Bysshe Shelley. In original boards. Externally, rubbed. Particularly to the extremities and spine. Cracks to spine and some loss, particularly to the head and tail. Spine label is upside down and to the tail of the spine however it is illegible due to rubbing and loss. Rear hinge is slightly strained but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound though strained in places. Bibliographic details of the first edition from an article or book pasted to title page. Selbourne library stamp to the verso of title page. Internally, generally firmly bound though strained in places. Pages are slightly age toned and generally clean throughout. Good. book.

FIRST EDITION. Engr. front. Uncut in orig. drab boards, maroon cloth spine; v. sl. marked, hinges carefully repaired in places, spine faded. A good-plus, internally clean, copy. An uncommon squib advocating wooden memorials for the great and the good.

8vo. pp. xii, 116, 12(ads). engraved frontis. Uncut in original bds., appropriately rebacked (small library label & rubberstamp on front endpapers). First Edition. NCBEL II 1250.

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