Denison william joseph (3 Ergebnisse)

1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, with minor tape stain at head. Reads: 'Dear Sir - | I have had an attack of gout - within the last few days, which I am sorry will prevent me from accepting your kind Invitation on Wednesday next.' According to his entry in the Oxford DNB, 'Denison spent his business career in his father's bank, Denison, Heywood, and Kennard of Lombard Street, becoming senior partner upon his father's death. The bank, which dealt in both domestic and foreign loans, prospered exceedingly under his direction, and Denison was probably among the eight or ten wealthiest British businessmen at the time of his death'.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp 253; 235. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Engraved title pages. No date, [1849]. Poems include: Lines for a British Walhalla in Windsor Park, The Star-spangled Banner, The Tomb of Napoleon, Il Pensieroso, Lines addressed to a Female Relation, Lines upon Vauxhall Gardens, Sonnet upon a Lady being stung by a Bee. Clean, very good indeed.…

unevenly browned, red library stamp on title and 2 other pages, last leaf almost loose (due to adhesion to the flyleaf), pp. xii, [13-] 106, 12mo, new 2-tone boards, printed paper label, old flyleaf inscribed 'A Present from the Author Will. Jos. Denison Esqr. to Mr. Wilkinson', small book label of J.O. Edwards inside front cover, good. The second edition, considerably augmented from the first edition of the previous year, which was only 65 pages in length. The first edition has Buonaparte's name spelled correctly on the title. The Reverie, in verse, is vehemently anti-Napoleonic - 'The reader will please to observe that Bonaparte's character is here drawn after the conqueror of Italy had degraded himself into the free-booter of Egypt' (Introduction). The ESTC, recording just the BL and McMaster copies, does not assign an author. The first edition is not much commoner, with just BL and Bodleian in the UK recorded in ESTC, 3 in North America, and 1 in Australia. William Rubenstein in the ODNB entry for Cornwallis mentions 'a patriotic poem on Napoleon's threatened invasion of 1803', perhaps referring to the present piece. (ESTC T125049).…