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Verlag: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2016
ISBN 10: 1358473625ISBN 13: 9781358473623
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: London: John Murray Albemarle-Street, 1826
Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
8vo, pp. xix, [i], 206, [10] critical opinions, [2] list of subscribers, [1] additional slip tipped in; with a frontispiece and nine plates by P.H. Rogers; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rebacked. Descriptive poetry by N.T. Carrington (1777-1830), born and raised in Plymouth, whose early life was spent at sea. He spent the last twenty years of his life running a school in the city. His sensibility is very much indebted to Wordsworth, whose poetry features here as epigraphs both on the title page and on p. 1. The book has a preface by his eldest son, H.E. Carrington, who likewise admired the rugged scenery of Dartmoor, and who ends with a quotation from Bernard Barton. The plates by the Plymouth artist Philip Hutchins Rogers, featuring lonely rocks and waterfalls, add to the sense of romantic desolation. Oddly (for a second edition), this book seems to have been issued by subscription, with the very short list at the end headed by the King himself. Others include George Canning, William Lisle Bowles and the poet and editor Alaric A. Watts. A small slip inserted after this shows that Felicia Hemans who presumably knew Carrington helped to add in two more names, after the list had been printed.