Abel evans (28 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Pre-existence. A poem, in the style and manner of Milton, etc. [By Abel Evans.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b The Appartion [sic]. A poem. [By Abel Evans. A satire on Matthew Tindal's 'The Rights of the Christian Church asserted.']br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's la…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This 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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute t…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First. First edition, 38pp, attractively bound in modern marbled boards with gilt lettered title label in red morocco, new endpapers, Provenance: with the bookplate of James M Smith, very good condition, no author, publisher or place of publication given, but known to be by Abel Evans (1679-1737),…

8vo, pp. 16; very poorly printed on cheap paper; in recent boards. A pirated edition of a famous satire, being an attack on the Deist scholar and cleric Matthew Tindal. The Oxford imprint may well be false, and could be inspired by the fact that the poem is set in Oxford, with the Devil visiting Tindal in his rooms at All Souls.…

8vo, pp. 23; disbound. Second edition. It is probable that this second edition, with the expanded title, was also printed in Oxford; there appear to be no revisions. Foxon notes an advertisement for this edition dated June 29, but an inscription on the title-page of this copy, by a man at the Middle Temple, which is dated '1709/…

Unbound. Zustand: Good. A piracy of Abel Evans's poetic attack on Mathew Tindal, formulated as a response to Tindal's 'The Rights of the Church Asserted'. Published in the same year as the first edition.FoxonE521The first published poem of Abel Evans, who authored this work in order to ally himself with the high-church Tory part…

8vo, pp. 38; disbound. First edition: the author's first poem. Abel Evans (1679-1737) was educated at Oxford and became a low-church clergyman. In time, however, he found it expedient to change sides, and ally himself with the high-church Tory party, and it was in this guise that he composed this attack on the deist Matthew Tind…

8vo, engraved frontispiece and pp. 33; disbound. First edition: an appealing horticultural epistle in verse. This panegyric to Jacob Bobart the younger, and the Oxford garden founded by his father, begins with some wry reflections on the aftermath of the Treaty of Utrecht: Thank heav'n! at Last our Wars are o'er; We're very Wise…