Croly rev g (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and title vignette. Four volumes. 8vo. [180 x 115 x 95 mm]. Bound in contemporary cloth, the boards blocked in blind with a triple fillet border, corner pieces and a large ornamental centre piece. The spine divided into five compartments, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, pale yellow endleaves. (Spines slightly toned, extremities lightly bumped). Light foxing to the title pages and frontispieces, otherwise very clean. Overall in very good condition. Bookplates of John Porter and Johnathan Rashleigh to the front paste downs. Edited by George Croly (1780-1860), Irish poet, novelist, historian and Anglican priest who served as rector of St Stephen Walbrook from 1835 until his death.…

Publisher's Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. 4 volumes, sm. 8vo. Original patterned cloth, with gilt title / decoration on the spine. Frontispiece and title page vignette in all four volumes, plus a portrait of Pope. Minor foxing to prelims and very minor rubbing to the bindings. A very good set Small 8vo.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A collection of the poems of Alexander Pope, scarce in its entirety. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces and title page to each volume (collated, complete). With a memoir of the author, notes, and critical notices of each poem, from G. Croly. George Croly (August 17, 1780 November 24, 1860) was an Irish poet, novelist, historian, and divine. He wrote poems, dramas, satires, novels, history, and theological works, and attained some measure of success in all. Complete in four volumes. In half-calf bindings. Externally, smart, though rubbed, with some marks. Internally, generally firmly bound, although frontispiece of volume I detached due to strained joint. News articles tipped onto pastedowns. Pages are bright, and generally clean, though with some instances of foxing. Copperplate ink inscription to the verso of the final page of volume IV. Very Good. None (illustrator). book. …

First edition. 8vo. ( 189mm. ) Pp. [5] vi [1] viii [3] xii - xx, [1] 2 - 52. Plates [21]. With a Half-title. Uncut . The plates, which are very finely executed, are occasionally lightly spotted. Foredges browned. Original paper backed boards lightly soiled, corners bumped, board edges showing some shelf wear, sometime paper reback, retaining the original printed paper label which is rubbed and chipped. Presentation in ink on the recto of the front endpaper. Richard Dagley ( ???? - 1841 ) , subject painter and engraver was an orphan, he was educated at Christ's Hospital. Exhibited sixty pictures at the Royal Academy 1785 - 1833 ; he illustrated the elder D' Israeli's " Flim-flams".…