Verlag: Regent Press (edition 0), 2006
ISBN 10: 1587900939 ISBN 13: 9781587900938
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Verlag: Regent Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1587905361 ISBN 13: 9781587905360
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Verlag: Regent Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1587902036 ISBN 13: 9781587902031
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Verlag: Regent Pr, 2006
ISBN 10: 1587900939 ISBN 13: 9781587900938
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Verlag: Nabu Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1146830084 ISBN 13: 9781146830089
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Verlag: 'Johnson Typ.', 1818
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
On 34 x 27 cm unwatermarked laid paper. Dimensions of plate 34 x 23 cm. Dimensions of print 5.1 x 7.4 cm. Dimensions of print and text 15 x 7.4 cm. In fair condition, lightly aged, spotted and creased, with stub from album adhering to one margin. This is an early state of a print of which the British Library has a copy (acquired in 1867) of the undated third state, dated to 1820, carrying only four lines of text rather than the substantial amount present here. The present copy has, engraved in small letters immediately beneath the print: 'Robt. Balmanno delt. 1818. Jno. Pye sculpt.' Below this, in larger type is the text, with one footnotes, and beneath the text is the printer's slug: 'Johnson, Typ.' The text is headed 'Cenotaph erected at Stoke Park, to the Memory of the Poet Gray.', and begins: 'The delightful scenery of the Church Yard, and of Stoke Old Mansion, seen among the trees, are admirably described in the Elegy and the Long Story; but the once magnificent 'Ancient Pile,' is now a ruin. The lines on a Prospect of Eton College (distant about four miles) were written on this spot.' Next are given, in double column, the 'Inscriptions on the Cenotaph', which include four stanzas from the Elegy and the first eight lines of the Eton College ode. The body of the text concludes, regarding the engraving: 'The column in the distance is dedicated to Sir Edward Coke, and is another of those chaste ornaments with which the Proprietor, John Penn, Esq. has adorned this classic spot.' Above the printer's slug is the footnote, concerning the placement of Gray's tombstone in the print: 'Represented in the View under the church window, to the left.' The British Library copy of the third state carries only a four-line quotation from the twenty-ninth stanza of the Elegy ('with dirges [.] aged thorn.'). The British Library copy of the 1820 state of the engraving has all of the text present in this 1818 version removed. It has, beneath the four-line poetic quotation, another engraving, not present on the present copy, being a 'profile portrait of the poet in an oval'. Balmanno's letters and those of his wife Mary, to the Philadelphia engraver John Sartain, are in the New York Public Library.
Verlag: Agar Place Camden Town London. 29 July, 1844
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
4pp., 4to. Bifolium. Very good on lightly-aged paper. Addressed to 'Robert Balmanno Esqre. | care of Messrs. Ogden & Co. | 15, Wall Street | New York'. He begins by explaining that he is sending the 'mutilated remains' of a letter which he wrote 'upwards of three months ago', and has since 're-opened' and 'Grahamed'. He has received with great pleasure Balmanno's 'parcels and letters', and asks him to thank 'your friends Chisholm, Tracey, and Milner'. He is expecting 'Mr. Smets', who will 'receive a hearty welcome though in a humble house'. He is 'truly sorry to hear of Mr. Town's decease. - Laudells has got into difficulties, and has called a meeting of his creditors. Puck, a speculation of his, has failed; and I want more of the Publisher for my Services as Editor than ever I expected to get, - by a "long chalk". I have also incurred liabilities on account of the publication to the extent of £40. I neither liked the title nor the plan of Puck, and yet, I think, I did nore than any other man to keep it alive so long. My reward I have yet to receive'. He discusses a 'Queen Elizabeth Prayer Book' enquired after from the bookseller Lawford by 'Mr. Smith', before turning to 'Morning Glories' sent by Balmanno: 'now in flower; one, in a pot on the balcony of the room where I now sit, is smiling on me as I write, and filling my mind with pleasant thoughts of "folks" in New York'. He has delivered the letter for 'Mr. Clint' [the painter George Clint (1774-1854)], and informs him that 'Mr. How - the publisher of Puck - has reprinted, in two vols. 12mo. price 15/ Jonathan Slick's High Life in New York from the copy which you sent me. I had the trouble of correcting the proof sheets and making a brief glossary of Yankee phrases - I had, and expect to have, nothing more. I am neither disappointed nor depressed.' A postscript reads: 'Why did you stick "Esq" after my name in , in the "New World"? In such places I always take it to mean "Hack Writer" - a character which I am not ambitious of, and, in truth, do not deserve. The quotation from Homer appears pedantic.' In another postscript he writes: 'I guess that Magnifique means, in broad Scots, "a fine lairge backside," - an essential of female beauty in the opinion of my quondam friend, Charles Lauder, of Kelso - I agree with him'.
Verlag: 63 Warren Street Fitzroy Place. 2 December, 1814
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
2pp., 4to. 18 lines of text. In bifolium. Good, on aged and creased paper, with strip of page to which the letter was attached adhering. Addressed, with red wax seal, on reverse of second leaf, to 'R. Balmanno Esqre. | 3 Middle Temple Lane Temple'. He begins: 'Having some communication last week with Mr. Charles Heath in the course of conversation he was regretting that he could not procure any proofs of plates engaraved by Mr. Raimbach - now as your Kindness gained me what I wished of his performance with an obliging offer of something more it occurred to me to solicit fom Mr. Heath a print you wanted & I ventur'd to promise him in exchange one of Mr. Raimbachs'. He is enclosing a note (not present), 'by which you will perceive the terms on which Mr. Heath wishes to treat'. He is sending Balmanno Heath's print, 'but whether you can in return for some invaluables (which it is in his power to procure) give him the extent of his wishes I know not'. Mitan's only aim in the matter is 'the mutual accomodation of both', and it will be 'equally agreeable' to Mitan if Balmanno deals with Heath himself.