Dover joseph (9 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Bilingual. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 397 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.90 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. In Stock.

Zustand: Fine. Original illustrated souvenir programme. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 12 pages. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. OPERA.

Zustand: Fine. Probably first edition hard back binding in publisher's original slate blue and navy blue paper covered boards, Cinque ports coat of arms in gilt to the front cover. Landscape 8'' x 10''. Contains 64 pages with four maps and monochrome photographs of Dover docks as they were in the 1920's showing: 'T. S. S. Cote d'Azur', turbine twin-screw steamer 'Canterbury', dock constructions, horse drawn wagons, vintage car ferries, Ropeway from Tilmanstone Colliery to the docks, cranes and platforms for loading vehicles, Southern Railway Motor Car Ferry Service. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Dover].…

The first item is fairly witty, while the second exhibits the sort of 'excruciating puns' for which Jekyll is, according to his entry in the Oxford DNB, largely remembered. See also Agar-Ellis's entry in the same work. The two items are in good condition, lightly aged. ONE: Letter of 'Sunday Morning' to 'Dear Ellis'. 2pp, 12mo. Signed 'Joseph Jekyll'. Folded twice. Minuted by recipient at head of first page: 'May 1825 / Jekyll'. Begins: After a Months Enjoyment of the Habeas Corpus the Govt most unconstitutionally suspended it last Wednesday, and ordered me into a third Confinement without Bail or Mainprize, but I have good nights, not much Pain, and no Foreign Office'. He regrets having missed 'the Academy Dinner', 'though Rogers, [the poet Samuel Rogers] with whom Joseph breakfasted yesterday, said it was crowded'. 'At any rate I was not to be there, as the King sent in the Morning to tell me to dine with him; but the Govt disobeys Kings, and despises the Liberal Arts, having quizzed the Art of Healing for three thousand Years.' TWO: Manuscript account of what is described by Agar-Ellis in his minuting at the head of the first page as 'Bazaar in Mr Penn's Garden for Charing Cross Hospital'. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Fifty-four lines, signed at end 'J. J.' The writer identified by Agar-Ellis as 'Jekyll', and while the document may be the original in Jekyll's autograph, the handwriting is less loose and much neater than that of Item One, suggesting a copy. Begins: 'Mr. Penn pennetrated [sic] with the Principle "that Charity should begin at home" yesteday threw open his Mansion & extensive Shurubberies to atttract the Rich for the Benefit of the Poor, to declare New Street in a State of Blockade without a Casus Foederis -'. Among other flighs of fancy the account continues with reference to 'perpenndicular Columns', 'three Harpers of Pennmanmawr playing Pennillions', 'the Inkas [sic] of Peru', 'Beauty to which neither Penn nor Penncil can do justice', 'the Margrave of Penndennis, Sr. Uter Penndragon, Bart.', 'the honourable Pennelope Pennsive', 'the Dean of Pennzance', 'Pennobscot', 'Brigadier General Penntagon of the Engineers pennsioned for the loss of his Nose in the Penninsular', 'Abraham Penntateuch Esqr.', 'Penntonville', 'the Dowager Lady Pennteazle with the two lovely Pennguins her Grand Daughters'.…