dr thomas parnell (7 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine engraved biographical portrait in the style of a miniature. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual.

1-vol ed. Nasty stain on back board; page edges browned, with stain on fore-edge; leather label on spine damaged; leather scuffed on spine "To which is prefixed, the life of Dr. Parnell; complete in one volume". Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in full brown calf Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in full brown calf.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Undated. Photograph available on request.

[Poetry] FINELY BOUND NEW EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[4] xxviii; ii; 180 [2]. With two copperplate illustrations, designed by Samuel Wale and engraved by Charles Grignion. Contemporary brown full tree-calf, spine gilt-ruled with red label lettered in gilt. Interior lightly toned and marked, with faint spotting to prelims and rear leaves. Discreet ownership inscription in black ink to front flyleaf. Two patches of discolouration to lower board, cracking to joints, extremities rubbed with some loss to spine ends. Very good. Parnell was a fellow Scriblerus member along with Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope - as well as one of the pre-Romantic 'Graveyard Poets;' his 'A Night-Piece on Death' appears in this very collection.

Hardcover. Title in red and black, wood-engraved head-pieces, index; viiii+224pp; a little light staining at head of inner margins of early leaves. 8vo contemp. panelled calf, worn, spine chipped at head, front cover detached, Thomas Parnell [1679-1718] Irish poet and essayist was a friend of Jonathan Swift and a member of the Scriblerus Club.This edition which came out in 1721 was edited by his friend Alexander Pope, who wrote the dedicatory poem to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. FIRST PRINTING OF BELL'S EDITION. 2 vols. 6mo. (5.1 x 3.3 inches). Engraved portrait frontis in volume one. Both volumes with extra illustrated title page. Beautiful contemporary bindings of full tree calf. Spines ruled and decorated in gilt. Red and green labels, gilt. Greek key design border on boards in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Fine, clean copies in fine, quality eighteenth century bindings. Issued as part of Bell's Poets of Great Britain series.

Zustand: Very good. 1760, London, printed for J. and R. Tonson, 12mo, pp253, full contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt decoration. ESTC. T139126.