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Verlag: Palala Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 1357419406ISBN 13: 9781357419400
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Verlag: For the Author, London, 1745
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Leather. Zustand: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A mixed, early edition of this biography regarding noted Romantic poet and translator, Alexander Pope. An uncommon biography as it was unauthorized. It is believed that this work was actually written by Edmund Curll under a pseudonym. With volume I being a first edition of 1745 and volume II being published in 1754. Both volumes are illustrated, with a frontispiece and seven plates to volume I. To volume II there is a frontispiece and five plates. Of the plates mentioned to the title page of volume II, those present are the frontispiece and the portraits of Lord Burlington, John Gay, Dean Swift, Duchess of Marlborough and Mrs Martha Blount. Red and black title page to volume II. The pages are generally bright to both volumes In full leather bindings. Externally, sound with evidence of some repair to joints. Heavy rubbing to the spines and extremities. Front hinge and joint to volume II is detached but present. Prior owner's pencil inscription to the preliminary leaves of volume I. Internally, both volumes are firmly bound. Pages are generally bright. Occasional scattered spotting to pages. Good Only. book.
Verlag: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2016
ISBN 10: 1357782845ISBN 13: 9781357782849
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019
ISBN 10: 0365377252ISBN 13: 9780365377252
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. 418 Seiten Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. 33727743/2 Altersfreigabe FSK ab 0 Jahre Gebundene Ausgabe, Größe: 15.2 x 2.4 x 22.9 cm.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019
ISBN 10: 1332911994ISBN 13: 9781332911998
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. 384 Seiten 26914923/1 Altersfreigabe FSK ab 0 Jahre Taschenbuch, Größe: 15.2 x 2 x 22.9 cm.
Verlag: London: printed by his Majesty's authority for the author and sold by the booksellers, 1745
Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Two volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait and pp. xii, [ii], 340, [16] index; [iv], 389, [13] index; with 12 other plates; contemporary calf, gilt, spines gilt, red morocco labels (a bit worn, joints slightly cracked). First edition of the first full-scale biography of Pope, curiously presented with a leaf containing a royal patent, signed by the Duke of Newcastle as Secretary of State. Straus discusses this work at some length (The Unspeakable Curll, pp. 193-8), and concludes that 'amongst the hundred worst books the Memoirs must be given a high place' (but he was writing almost a century ago: he could not have imagined what competition there would be in the later 20th and early 21st centuries). In his dismissive appraisal, Straus assumes that 'William Ayre' is a fiction, and that the true author was Edmund Curll. The truth lies somewhere in between: William Ayre does seem to have been a real person, because in 1739 his name was affixed to a poem titled Truth, attacking the Essay on Man (Foxon A377). However, contemporary readers assumed, no doubt correctly, that Curll was closely involved with the publication of his book. The text does display Curll's characteristic lack of coherent organisation, but at the same time it is not unsympathetic to Pope; nor does it entirely gloss over Curll's own sometimes less than savoury practices. Baines and Rogers, in their recent biography of Curll, style Straus's opinion 'too hasty a verdict', and allow for some merit: 'As a repository of information, the two volumes easily outdistance anything produced on Pope up to this time, including Jacob's Lives of the Poets and the two instant lives from 1744. Much of the information happens to be accurate, too' (p. 305). Some copies of this work have a duplicate of the portrait of Pope in volume I as a frontispiece in the second volume as well, as called for in the 'directions to the binder for placing the cutts'; the same list, however, omits the final portrait in the second volume, of Lord Bolingbroke. Griffith 606. Provenance: contemporary signature of Cath: Williams in each volume.
Verlag: London: printed by his Majesty's authority for the author and sold by the booksellers, 1745
Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Two volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait and pp. xii, 340, [16] index; [iv], 389, [13] index; with 12 other plates; contemporary calf, spines with red morocco labels. First edition of the first full-scale biography of Pope, curiously presented with a leaf containing a royal patent, signed by the Duke of Newcastle as Secretary of State. Straus discusses this work at some length (The Unspeakable Curll, pp. 193-8), and concludes that 'amongst the hundred worst books the Memoirs must be given a high place'. (But he was writing a century ago: he could not have imagined what competition there would be in the later 20th and early 21st centuries.) In his dismissive appraisal, Straus assumes that 'William Ayre' is a fiction, and that the true author was Edmund Curll. The truth lies somewhere in between: William Ayre does seem to have been a real person, because in 1739 his name was affixed to a poem titled Truth, attacking the Essay on Man (Foxon A377). However, contemporary readers assumed, no doubt correctly, that Curll was closely involved with the publication of his book. The text does display Curll's characteristic lack of coherent organisation, but at the same time it is not unsympathetic to Pope; nor does it entirely gloss over Curll's own sometimes less than savoury practices. Baines and Rogers, in their recent biography of Curll, style Straus's opinion 'too hasty a verdict', and allow for some merit: 'As a repository of information, the two volumes easily outdistance anything produced on Pope up to this time, including Jacob's Lives of the Poets and the two instant lives from 1744. Much of the information happens to be accurate, too' (p. 305). Some copies of this work have a duplicate of the portrait of Pope in volume I as a frontispiece in the second volume as well, as called for in the 'directions to the binder for placing the cutts'; the same list, however, omits the portrait of Lord Bolingbroke, which is here bound near the beginning of volume I. Griffith 606. Provenance: Armorial bookplate in each volume of Sir George Shuckburgh (1751-1804), later Shuckburgh Evelyn, baronet. Shuckburgh merits an entry in ODNB for his scientific work, but to book collectors he is much better known as the owner of a magnificent library, including a Gutenberg Bible, and other important early printing.