digges dudley (13 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New.

Approx. 4 x 6", six lines incl. signature, boldly penned, matted with large sepia-tone photo of the actor. "The ____ wobbles and / I am utterly unable to / do myself justice / with the strain of such / an ordeal. Sincerely.".

Boards. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: DJ Flap Only. Original Drawing By Robert Edmond Jones (illustrator). First Edition. 88 Pp. An Attractive Example, Well Preserved, Age Toning To Spine And Top Edge Of Boards, Unfaded, Hinges Tight, Small Loss Along Top Edge Of Spine. Inscribed By Almost All Cast Members "To Dorothy"; From A Collection Of Books From The Estate Of Dorothy Gish, Who Had A Role In The Play. Inscribed by Author(s).

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. [INSPIRING SHAKESPEARE?] FIRST EDITION. 4to. pp. [iv], 111, [i]: pi², A-O . Roman letter, some Italic. Small woodcut printer's device on title, floriated woodcut initials, grotesque woodcut head and tail-pieces, typographical ornaments. Light age yellowing, title dusty, chipped at lower outer blank corner, a little dust soiling at margins of first few leaves, minor marginal dust soiling in places, the rare marginal stain. A good copy, with good margins, in modern three-quarter red calf, spine with raised bands, title gilt lettered, all edges yellow. Rare first edition of this important work on the state of the English militia, probably a source for Shakespeares' Coriolanus. "As Digges died in 1595 there was an interval of at least nine years between the writing of 'Paradoxes 1. and II.' and their printing. These are filled with complaints of the dishonesty of officers. Foreign writers, too, were making similar accusations, notably Marcos de Isaba, who, in the 'Cuerpo enfermo de la Milicia Espanola', waxes very bitter on the subject. Both in English and foreign armies, officers, from the commander in chief to the captain of the band, where engaged in defrauding one another and the private soldiers. If the men clamoured for pay, license for pillage quieted them, or, in some cases, a still surer remedy was found; generals when deep in debt to any troops would send them on some desperate service, wherein most of them were sure to perish. Four pages of Paradoxes I are devoted to a comparison between a good and a bad paymaster; and much of Paradox II to another between modern discipline and the discipline of the Greeks and Romans. Digges maintains the former, 'In spite of the late invention of gunpowder,' to be vastly inferior to the latter, and he cites thirty points of difference between the two systems in support of his views. Indeed the English militia had become so inefficient as to make reform imperative. Captains, being paymasters of their own bands, made use of their position to pocket the mens' pay; drill was neglected, and no dependence could be placed on soldiers, who, taken from the lowest class, thought nothing of running from the enemy. Smythe, though an opponent of Digges, corroborates these statements. Digges was a reformer, and certainly a good friend to the private soldier;." Cockle. "In 1604 a volume was published entitled 'Four Paradoxes, or Politique Discourses', containing two essays by Thomas Digges, and two by Dudley Digges, his son, and the stepson of Shakespeare's testamentary overseer. One of Dudley's essays is in praise of the soldiers profession. In the other he argues 'That warre sometimes' is 'less hurtfull and more to be wisht in a well Governd state than peace'. War, he declares, is better than 'luxurious idleness' With this may be compared the dialogue on the advantages of war in Coriolanus IV. v. Digges proceeds to discuss the use of war as a means of curing internal dissensions, his main example being the story of Coriolanus taken directly from North's Plutarch, though with the insertion of one phrase from Livy. we cannot be sure that Shakespeare had read 'Foure Paradoxes', though he might have done so out of neighbourly interest. In Coriolanus he uses the metaphor of breaking out in three places, though his use of it is not confined to this play. Although, therefore, Shakespeare could have developed his conception of the play from Plutarch's lives, Digges may well have contributed to the atmosphere of the play with his praise of the military hero, his claim that the 'discommoditie of our long peace opprest by luxurie' is 'worse farre than warrre', and his retelling of the Coriolanus story as an example of the way foreign wars can be used to cure sedition." Kenneth Muir. 'The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays.' ESTC S109705 STC 6872. Cockle 77.

Full Calf. Zustand: Good. vi, 662 pp. Full calf. Spine gilt. Five raised bands. Leather title label to spine. All edges red. Wear to extremities and joints. Head of spine chipped with headband exposed. Marbled endpapers. Scattered foxing. French language translation of Sir Dudley Digges 'Compleat Ambassador.' Binding firm and tight. Good to Very Good condition. Small 4to.

Vintage linen-backed keybook reference photograph from the 1933 film, showing actor Paul Robeson. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1920 play, following a cunning railway porter who gradually manipulates his way into control of a small Caribbean island. Actor Paul Robeson's first sound feature, a breakthrough role which secured the actor's status as one of the first African American leading actors of mainstream cinema. Set throughout the American south and in the Caribbean Islands, shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear along the top edge (image unaffected). National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 370.

Rare first edition of Digges's important book, an early defence of the East India Company monopoly, and a counter-blast to The Trades Increase, an anonymous work of the same year usually attributed to the mysterious mercantilist Robert Kayll; records show that the last copy to appear at public auction was in 1955 (the Andre de Coppet sale, Sotheby's, 9 May). Sir Dudley Digges (1682/3-1639), politician and diplomat, from a well-connected Kent family, was "much preoccupied with overseas trade, he was a shareholder in the Virginia Company and the East India Company. He also took a keen interest in the search for the much vaunted north-west passage. One of the founders of a company incorporated in 1612 for the purpose of trading by that route, he published an account of the ensuing exploration. In 1613 Digges was appointed to the high commission, a prerogative court with jurisdiction in church matters, and his appointment was renewed periodically thereafter. The following year he was candidate for the governorship of the East India Company. Also in 1614 he sat at Westminster for Tewkesbury again, taking an active role as a committee member and speaking out against papists and the impositions which he believed were responsible for putting English merchants out of business" (ODNB). Digges was replying in large part to the ironically titled The Trades Increase; ironic, as The Trades Increase was also the name of the greatest English merchant vessel of the age, the pride of the EIC fleet, destroyed by fire off Bantam (now Banten), Java, in 1614; and which is mentioned by Digges at p. 20 ("New built, and ouerswaid as she was careening at Bantam"). Its purported author, Robert Kayll - referred to by Digges as an "vknowne busie Person" - was extremely critical of the EIC's trading activities, deploring its special right to export bullion, "railing against the trading restrictions, the company's near-criminal waste of sailors' lives, ships and investors capital, and accusing the EIC of diminishing, rather than improving, England's naval strength overall" (The History of Economic Thought website). He also remarked on the neglected English herring industry, into which trade the Dutch were making inroads. Kayll's criticism stung and the EIC board were keen to have him tracked down and tried but Digges took it on himself to refute Kayll's charges, which he proceeds to do in forensic fashion. Richmond Barbour, in his recent study of the loss of The Trades Increase, describes Digges as "a learned spokesman for the early modern nationalist elite"; and he certainly mounts his defence with a very persuasive colour and characterfulness. Speaking of the EIC, he says, "this honourable enterprise, like Hercules yet in the Cradle, in the infancie hath been assailed by Serpents slie aspersions, which Envie long since whispered in the eares of ignorance, of killing Mariners and carrying out the treasure of the land". He also gives a list of ships and their tonnage currently in the EIC's employ and figures for the imports of pepper, cloves, nutmeg, and mace. The Defence of Trade is addressed to the merchant Sir Thomas Smith or Smythe, chief promoter of the Company's successful first voyage. "In the hope of diminishing the length and hazards of East India Company expeditions, Smythe, who was also governor of the North-West Passage Company (1612), promoted voyages for the discovery of a north-west passage, especially those of Hudson (1610) and Baffin (1615), who gave his name to Smith Sound, between Greenland and Ellesmere Island" (ibid.). Digges Islands and Digges Sound in Hudson Bay were named for Sir Dudley. Richmond Barbour, The Loss of the "Trades Increase": An Early Modern Maritime Catastrophe, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021; Kress 341; STC 6845. Small quarto (175 x 129 mm). Recent panelled calf to style. A very good copy, with the preliminary blank leaf.

London: Printed for Peter Parker, 1679. 5th ed (illustrator). London: Printed for Peter Parker, 1679. 5th ed. An Artful Defense of King Charles I Digges, Dudley [1613-1643]. The Unlawfulness of Subjects Taking up Arms Against Their Soveraigne, In What Case Soever. Together with Answers to All Objections. A Work Very Seasonable for These Times, And May Serve as a Curb to the Treasonable Practices of Jesuits and Other State-Incendiaries. Written by Dudley Digs, Gent. late Fellow of All-Souls Colledge in Oxford. London: Printed for Peter Parker, 1679. [viii], 144, 155-170, 137-168 pp. Pagination irregular. Text complete. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4-1/4"). Recent period-style three-quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt-edged raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Moderate toning to text, faint dampstaining to a few leaves. Ex-library. Small inkstamp to title page and one other leaf. A handsome copy. $950. * Fifth and final edition. Derived in part from Bracton, Digges's eloquent defense of the passive obedience of subjects contends that the king is under law as a moral proposition only, which precludes justified rebellion. Taking a Hobbesian view, "Digges argued that people were originally in a condition of complete liberty, but that it was rational for them to covenant to establish a civil sovereign. The renunciation of original rights was irreversible, and to suggest their continuance in civil society was subversive" (ODNB). The work was originally published in Oxford in 1643/4 as a defense of Charles II. This 1679 reissue was probably a response to the decision of Charles II to dissolve Parliament to prevent its impeachment of Lord Danby, who supervised the investigation into the "Popish Plot." Danby dismissed the plot as a fabrication, which angered Parliament. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (accessed online). English Short-Title Catalogue R14579.