designs bentley poems von gray thomas (7 Ergebnisse)

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. R Bentley (illustrator). A collection of poems by Thomas Gray, ornately illustrated throughout, with beautiful engravings. With 'Odes by Mr Gray' and 'Explanation of the Prints' by Horace Walpole to the start of the work. With Elegy Written in a Churchyard, Odes, Hymn to Adversity, A Long Story, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College and more. This work was first published in 1753 and there were subsequent printings in 1765, 1766 and 1775 prior to this edition. The engravings to this work are all by Johann Sebastian Muller and Charles Grignion after drawings by Richard Bentley. In a full calf binding. Rebound with original backstrip and boards preserved. Externally, generally smart. Patches of rubbing to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Marks to the boards. Small amount of loss to the backstrip due to rubbing. Bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional light spots. Prior owner's notes to the margins of page 54. Small repair to the tail of the first leaf. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fair. Hardback, slim folio, original boards crudely held to text block with frayed thread, leacking spine. Engraved vignettle to title. 5 engraved plates only (of 6), and a few engraved illustrations. Sewing broken and contents loose. Cloth strip crudely adhered to spine of text block with cloth partially adhered to gutter margin of half-title and final leaf. Dust-soiling, a few marks and some fraying to untrimmed margins. Private ownership. (a13).

London, J. Dodsley, 1789. Folio. Contemp. full calf. Double-line borders on covers. Neathly rebacked to style. Spine richly gilt and with gilt lettering. Corners bumped. Light wear along edges. Inner gilt borders. Engraved portrait of Gray (by Müller). Engraved title-vignette. (4),(1-)35,(2) leaves a. pp. 39-55., 6 large engraved initials, 6 engraved plates (Müller) and 13 large engraved head-and tailpieces. Very light offsetting from plates. A few insignificant marginal brownspots. Printed on heavy paper.

Copertina rigida. Zustand: ottime. Prima edizione. Prima edizione. Testo inglese. Cm.37,3x27. Carte quattro non numerate, 36. Buona legatura in mz.pelle e mz.tela. Tassello con titoli e filetti in oro al dorso a sei nervature. Fogli di guardia marmorizzati. Con sei belle tavole fuori testo a piena pagina e 13 nel testo, incluso il frontespizio, opera di T.S. Müller e Charles Grignion dai disegni di Richard Bentley. Capilettera figurati. Buon esemplare su carta greve. Il volume contiene sei poemi di Gray: "Ode on the Spring", "Ode on Death of a favourite Cat", "Ode on the distant Prospect of Eton", "The Long Story" (qui pubblicata per la prima volta), "Hymn to Diversity", e infine la famosa "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard". Il fatto che la parola "designs" preceda "poems" al frontespizio dipende da una scelta dello stesso Gray. La "Explanation of the Prints", che precede le liriche, si deve Horace Walpole. Assai bella e celebrata edizione di liriche del poeta preromantico Thomas Gray (Londra, 26 dicembre 1716 ? Cambridge, 20 luglio 1771), riccamente illustrate dalle tavole dell'amico Richard Bentley (1708 circa ? 1782). > Harthan, "The History of the Illustrated Book", 154-155, "The most sophisticated example of English rococo book-illustration". Dongu, "Thomas Gray Ludens. Frammenti dal Grand Tour", 48, "Dodsley, con un occhio al mercato, ritenendo che i lettori sarebbero stati attirati dalla fama dell'autore della "Elegy", aveva predisposto un frontespizio nel quale avrebbe dovuto campeggiare un ritratto di Gray, e proposto una grafica vicinanza dei nomi del poeta e del disegnatore, di fatto co-autori del libro, essendo questo un connubio di immagini e versi. La corrispondenza nervosa con Walpole, ma anche con lo stesso Dodsley, dimostra come Gray fosse intenzionato a proteggere la sua figura pubblica concedendo molto poco di sé. Il divieto della stampa della sua immagine vale come un disconoscimento non dei versi, in parte già pubblicati, quanto dell'operazione editoriale. Con le stesse ragioni in mente, e perseguendo lo stesso scopo, egli pretese che il suo nome apparisse inserito nel titolo, e non come co-autore .". Rotschild, 1061. Lowndes, II, 931. 1300 gr.

Fourth edition overall, expanded from the three editions of 1753 with further Odes, of this large, elaborately illustrated publication of the best-known works of the poet Gray, including the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. A presentation copy of H. A. J. Munro's translation of the Elegy into Latin (c. 1873) is tipped-in at the rear endpapers. "This volume appeared only after a great deal of persuasion on the part of Horace Walpole (1717-97); the reclusive Thomas Gray was reluctant to be seen to be promoting his own work and insisted that the book's title should stress Richard Bentley's role as designer. Walpole was already considering setting up his own press and this splendid publication must have encouraged him to do so just four years later" (British Museum, curatorial comment for their first edition copy). Bentley's "designs for Gray's poems were deemed by Hanns Hammelmann to be 'a turning-point in British decorative art'. Their complement of visual puns and pictorial allusions to other works of art gives the interplay of the sister arts an unexpectedly provocative coherence" (ODNB). ESTC T127826; Northup 185; Hazen 42. Tall quarto (372 x 264 mm). Nineteenth-century half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled sides and endpapers. With 6 full-page copperplate engravings including frontispiece, and 13 engraved vignettes including title vignette. Contemporary ownership signature to title page; a few pencilled notes; with clipping on the sale of a first edition of the Elegy on the front free endpaper, a facsimile of the original manuscript of the same on the rear pastedown, a further clipping on Wolfe's reading of the poem in the Battle of Quebec to the rear binder's blank, autograph letter regarding the Latin translation (see note) tipped-in. Rubbed, light browning, light staining at foot. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Six full-page engraved plates, engraved vignette on the title, 13 vignettes in the text, and six engraved initials by Muller and Grignon. 4to (in half sheets). [346 x 235 x 21 mm]. [3], 35 ff, [4], 39-55 pp. Bound in contemporary tree calf, the covers with a gilt roll border, rebacked in matching calf, the smooth spine divided into seven panels by gilt fillets and a wave pallet, lettered in the second on a red label, the others with a vase containing flowers, marbled endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Corners repaired, edges of the boards worn, scrape mark on front). Without the half-title. A little light dust-soiling but a good copy. Bookplate partly removed and with the signature of T. Lockhart. The six poems are printed and foliated on the recto only. "Odes by Mr. Gray" and the "Explanation of the prints", by Horace Walpole, are printed on both the recto and verso. First published, in three issues, by Robert Dodsley in 1753. It was reprinted, with additions, by his brother James Dodsley in 1765, 1766, 1775 and 1789. The work is "by far the most sophisticated example of English rococo book-illustration" and "perhaps the finest English illustrated book of the century" (Harthan, The History of the Illustrated Book, pp.154-5). Some of the designs, including the famous frontispiece to "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard", have Gothic features, while "the others display an eclectic melange of currently fashionable decorative motifs, caryatid-draped frontispieces, rococo scrolls and strapwork, an occasional intrusion of chinoiserie, and nude or lightly-clad figures which simultaneously look back to Poussinesque prototypes and forward to Neo-Classicism". Richard Bentley (1708-1782), the son of the great Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was a protege and friend of Horace Walpole, and a chief designer of Strawberry-Hill.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. R Bentley (illustrator). A scarce and handsome volume of illustrations to the work of Thomas Gray, in attractive leather binding. Curiously noted as 'designs', rather than poems, the title was written such in order to emphasise to readers that the poems were previously published by Gray, and not new works. Nonetheless, the handsome illustrations, of which there are six engraved plates as well as numerous vignettes and embellishments, make for a interesting and attractive collaborative volume. In quarter-calf binding with gilt detailing and paper-covered boards. Externally smart, there is some wear to the backstrip and extremities. Internally, the pages are firmly bound but are somewhat age-toned throughout. Very Good. book.