Dr john langhorne (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Four volumes reissued as one. Sextdecimo, half green leather with marbled boards, some wear and title label missing from spine, binding firm, previous ownership on front free end paper, internally clean and bright, engraved title page and each volume has an engraved frontis piece, each volume paginated separately: 96, 84, ix plus 110, iv plus 69, further 2 pages of S.E.& C.'s list of New and Elegant Pocket Editions. [QP].…

Leather. Zustand: Good. A story by Dr John Langhorne. With previous owner's copperplate inscription to title page, dated 1826. John Langhorne (March 1735 1 April 1779) was a British translator, poet and priest. He and his brother, William Langhorne, are best known for their English translation of Plutarch's Lives. In a calf binding. Externally, sound with shelfwear and slight cracking to front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Label to front pastedown and chipping to rear blank. Age-toning to some pages at front an rear and some foxing and marks, mainly to first and last few pages and textblock edge. Good. None (illustrator). book.…

1/2 Brown Morocco. Zustand: Corner Wear. No Jacket. Later Edition. Marbled boards, matching endpapers. Covers and spine rubbed. Title-page very foxed, with light to moderate foxing throughout the text. "A Life of the Author" by F. Blagdon is prefixed to the text. Water-staining at bottom edge of the first few pages. Engraved title vignettes and floral chapter ends by Stothard. Eleven fables in all followed by a two-page advertisement for the publisher. The first edition was marketed in 1771. 81pp.…

Zustand: Very Good. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author by F. Blagdon, Esq. pp. (xvi), 81. (ii) of adverts. 11 vignettes as head pieces for each fable by Thomas Stothard, with tissue guards, 11 tail pieces. Small 8vo. Full calf, hinges slightly rubbed, margins browned.

[iv], 81pp + 2pp ads, 22 engraved vignettes and tail-pieces (mostly floral decorations), bound in twentieth century half calf over marbled boards, lettered in gilt on spine, with some slight sunning to spine (not affecting gilt). A VG+ clean copy.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. A charming collection of moral fables in verse, blending Enlightenment ethics with the allegorical language of flowers and nature, illustrated with hand-coloured vignettes. In a quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards.First published in 1771, this is a charming hand-coloured illustrated edition of the poetry collection.Illustrated with twenty engraved hand-coloured vignettes after Stothard. Collated, complete.An eighteenth-century collection of moral and allegorical fables in verse, using flowers and plants as emblematic figures to convey reflections on virtue, character, and human conduct.John Langhorne (1735-1779) was an English poet, translator, and clergyman, best known for his influential translation of Plutarch"s Lives. In a quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards.Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in slight loss to calf and paper. One or two spots to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean if characteristically age toned with the odd spot. The odd minor pencil annotation from previous owner. Very Good. Thomas Stothard (illustrator). book.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. A beautifully illustrated edition of Langhorne's poetry collection, illustrated by Thomas Stothard. First published in 1771, this is a charmingly illustrated edition of the poetry collection.Described as consisting of 'floral debates', the collection uses interactions between plants to deliver moral lessons.Illustrated with twenty engraved vignettes after Stothard. Collated, complete.With the armorial bookplate of C. Wyndham Randon to the front pastedown.With a contemporary inscription, dated 1797, to the title page head.ESTC T68497A lovely edition of this work from the English clergyman, poet, translator, editor and author. In a full morocco binding. Light handling marks to boards. Rubbing to joints, with head of front joint starting but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to title page head. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd handling mark. Very Good. Thomas Stothard (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. HC - Leather boards; Spine: Gilt spine bands and decor/black text block with gilt lettering. Prev. gilt insciption ffep in pencil. Color and B/W Illustrated. Hand-Colored. Hand-laid paper. RARE. Rubbing/bumping to extremities. Some chipping to ffep lower right foot and last few flyleafs. All binding in tact. Foxing to pages. 70/1pp. 16mo. Collectible. See pics--Dave B. Box 7.…

Zustand: Good. Early Edition. 8vo. pp iv, 5-35. A popular moralistic pseudo-oriental tale, first published in England in 1762, in which Langhorne's "chief delight is to moralize and philosophize in a gentle and leisurely fashion" and which "advances slowly because frequently broken by generalizations, by descriptions of places like the 'frowning' ruins of Persepolis and emotions aroused thereby, and also by digressions on the state of literature and manners in England . On the whole, although the story is stiff, tedious, and over-moralistic, it has an attractive kind of purity and sweetness like the fragrance from an old-fashioned garden." - Conant, The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century, pp. 99-100 Disbound (i.e. lacking covers) but otherwise in decent sound condition with clean text. Suitable for rebinding or reading and reference.…