Austin dobson henry fielding (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. limited edition. Octavo, xxi + 227 pages. #195 of 500 copies. Printed on handmade paper. Gray boards with vellum spine, spine darkened, cover edges tanned. Some offset browning on endpapers as well as on title page and frontis. 010608A.

Zustand: New. In English.

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 this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Zustand: New.

Buch. 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 this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

4pp., 12mo. Paginated to 4. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. On laid paper watermarked 'A PIRIE & SONS | 1883'. Tastefully printed. In Dobson's brightest style, the poem begins: 'Not from the ranks of those we call | Philosopher or Admiral, - | Neither as LOCKE was, nor as BLAKE, | Is that GREAT GENIUS for whose sake | We keep this Autumn festival.' Fielding is praised as 'Our ENGLISH NOVEL's pioneer!', who 'stepped lower down and took | The piebald PEOPLE for his Book!' In what is perhaps the most vivid passage Dobson writes: 'Whose are the characters that give | Such sound reality? - that live | With such full pulse? Fair SOPHY yet | Carols St. George at the spinet; | We see AMELIA cooking still | That supper for the recreant WILL; | We hear Squire WESTON's headlong tones | Bawling "Wut ha? - wut ha?" to JONES. | Are they not present now to us, - | The Parson with his Aeschylus? | SLIPSLOP the frail, and NORTHERTON, | PARTRIDGE, and BATH, and HARRISON? - | Are they not breathing, moving, - all | The motley, merry carnival | That FIELDING kept, in days agone?' Scarce: only three copies on COPAC and OCLC WorldCat (at the British Library, Senate House and Yale). …