Thomas blenerhasset (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good Minus. Facsimile. Facsimile of the 1582 first edition. Lacking jacket. Quarter black cloth with paper covered boards. Paper title label to front board and spine. Fading to spine and board edges, browning to spine label, slight wear to corners of boards. Slight browning to endpapers, clean text throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.25 x 8.75 inches (13.5 x 22 cm).…

Zustand: Sehr gut. XIX, Schutzumschlag in Folie eingeschlagen, erste Seiten leicht stockfleckig, ansonsten ist das Exemplar in einem sehr guten und sauberen Zustand ohne Anstreichungen./ Dust jacket wrapped in foil, first pages slightly foxed, otherwise the copy is in very good and clean condition without marks. / Faksimile-Reproduktion des Unikats in der Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, mit Genehmigung. / Facsimile reproduction from the unique copy in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, by permission. / Aus der Einleitung / From the introduction: "Blenerhasset's Reuelation is, to all intents and purposes, a newly discovered document in the history of Elizabethan poetry, since the text has never before been accessible to students. It belongs to the pastoral-mythological branch of that great body of literature celebrating Queen Elizabeth which has been so ably reviewed by Professor Elkin C. Wilson in England's Eliza (Cam- bridge, Mass., 1939). But its date (1582) entitles it to a place also in studies of the English pastoral, of Spenser's early influence, and of metrical experimentation in English verse. It contains the first imitation of the Shepheardes Calender to appear in print, and the first pattern poems to be printed in English. It reflects the form and content of courtly poetry at the time when Spenser, Sidney, and Lyly had just ushered in a new literary era, and just before Lyly and Peele began to write the series of pastoral-mythological court comedies which did so much to give literary distinction to courtly entertainment. The Reuelation contains some interesting metrical experiments and some graceful lyrics; but it owes its importance less to any absolute literary merit than to the new light which it throws on its author and on the state of English poetry in 1582. -- The Poet -- Thomas Blenerhasset has been known as a poet only by his Seconde Part of the Mirrour for Magistrates (1578), a work in which he appears as a belated imitator of a dying mediaeval literary form. But in the Reuelation he demonstrates his active participation in the new school of experimental versification which focused attention on poetic technique and so laid the foundations For the great age which was just beginning to dawn." Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 250 Originalhalbleinen mit Originalschutzumschlag. / Original half cloth with original dust jacket.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. An uncommon facsimile reprint of Thomas Blenerhasset's Revelation of the True Minerva. The first edition of this facsimile in the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Stamp of Cardiff Public Libraries to the front of the dust wrapper, to the paste downs, to the verso of the title page, to page xix, and to the last page. A facsimile reproduction of Thomas Blenerhasset's panegyric on Queen Elizabeth I, first printed in 1582, from the unique copy held in the Henry E. Huntingdon Library and Art Gallery. This poetical work includes an introduction and a bibliographical note by Josephine Waters Bennett. Thomas Blenerhasset (c.15501624) was an English poet whose major work was an expansion of The Mirror for Magistrates. In publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally cloth and boards are bright and smart, except for minor shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for library stamps. Stamp to the front of the dust wrapper, which is smart though sunned to the spine with a little chipped to the head and tail of the spine and to the upper extremities. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1946. XII+511 pages. Orig. cloth in dust wrappers. Wrappers price clipped. Name in pencil on flyleaf. Very good++/ very good++ wrappers. * The Mirror for Magistrates is a collection of English poems retelling the lifes of various historical figures.

First edition. First edition. Title-page with woodcut architectural border (McKerrow 161), woodcut initials. [vi], 66 ff. Collation: *^4 **^2 A-Q^4 R^2. 12mo. The first and only separate edition of the "Seconde Part" of this important Tudor sourcebook, being a continuation of John Higgins' "First Parte," published first in 1574, itself a prequel to William Baldwin's "Last Part," first published in 1559. Thus this edition fills the gap chronologically between the Higgins first part (which ends with the birth of Christ) and Baldwin's last part (which begins in the 14th century), and includes the stories of Guidericus, Carassus, Helena, Vortiger, Uther Pendragon, and others. The Higgins and Baldwin parts were published by Thomas Marshe, who was not involved in this printing. The Pforzheimer catalogue notes that this is the only work to bear Richard Webster's name in the imprint: "In this instance his role was that of publisher for the volume was printed by Dawson, possibly with the aid of his partner, Thomas Gardiner. There is reason, therefore, to doubt that Webster was a printer." Although not particularly rare in institutional holdings, this Seconde Part has appeared infrequently on the market - the last copy at auction was the Robert Pirie copy, lacking a signature, which sold for $4,750. ESTC S104601; Grolier, Langland to Wither 177; Pforzheimer 736. Provenance: Robert Truelove (contemporary inscription on verso of ff. [vi], some marginalia) Full period style calf, covers with blind-ruled borders, red morocco spine label. Title trimmed with some loss to border, fore-edge margin of **1 and lower margin of A1 torn away and mended, with some loss to text, toned and stained throughout Title-page with woodcut architectural border (McKerrow 161), woodcut initials. [vi], 66 ff. Collation: *^4 **^2 A-Q^4 R^2. 12mo.…