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Verlag: Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2018
ISBN 10: 1379596165ISBN 13: 9781379596165
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Einband - fest (Hardcover). Zustand: New.
Verlag: London: printed for C. Bathurst H. Woodfall W. Strahan J. and F. Rivington W. Johnston B. White T. Caslon T. Longman B. Law Johnson and Payne S. Bladon T. Cadell and the executors of A. Millar, 1769
Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
8vo, pp. [vi], 578; with an engraved frontispiece; in contemporary speckled calf, gilt, spine gilt (a little rubbed, joints slightly cracked, lacks label). First edition: a substantial biography, with much new information, written at the suggestion of Warburton, to whose collection of Pope's manuscripts Ruffhead was given access. Warburton read the proofs of this book, and made corrections. Owen Ruffhead (ca. 1723-1769) grew up in London, where his father was a baker; the proceeds of a winning lottery ticket were used to give him a good education, and he became a lawyer. His venture into literary biography had a mixed reception; Samuel Johnson famously remarked that Ruffhead 'knew nothing of Pope and nothing of poetry'. Despite such opinions, the syndicate of booksellers who published this biography quickly reprinted it in quarto to accompany a new four-volume collected edition of Pope's works. The frontispiece depicts a commemorative monument erected by Warburton in 1761.
Verlag: Dublin: printed for S. Powell P. Wilson J. Exshaw H. Saunders W. Sleater etc., 1769
Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
12mo, pp. [ii], 235; [iv], 235; an exceptionally attractive copy in contemporary (Irish?) light calf, spines with red, blue and green morocco labels. First Dublin edition: originally published in London earlier the same year. This is a substantial biography, with much new information, written at the suggestion of Warburton, to whose collection of Pope's manuscripts Ruffhead was given access. Warburton read the proofs of this book, and made corrections. Owen Ruffhead (ca. 1723-1769) grew up in London, where his father was a baker; the proceeds of a winning lottery ticket were used to give him a good education, and he became a lawyer. His venture into literary biography had a mixed reception; Samuel Johnson famously remarked that Ruffhead 'knew nothing of Pope and nothing of poetry'. This copy lacks the frontispiece in volume I, which shows the monument to Pope erected by Warburton. Although separately published, it is clear that this copy was once bound as part of a set of the works: the labels read 'Pope's Works', and number these two volumes XVI and XVII. Provenance. Early inscription of 'J. Postlethwaite' in both volumes.
Anbieter: Antiquariaat Wim de Goeij, Kalmthout, ANTW, Belgien
Verbandsmitglied: ILAB
Erstausgabe
London, Printed for C. Bathurst, H. Woodfall. W. Strahan.and the Executors of A. Millar, 1769, format in-8°, (8)nn pp (with engraved frontispiece) + 578 pp (complete). Bound in contemporary full leather. Raised spine with title labeL Binding with weak joints (but still holding), Spine with some damage (beginning of a split), title label with some loss of leather. Interior fine notwithstanding some offsetting of the frontispiece on the title page. Apart from the spine damage still an acceptable copy of the original first edition.