holcroft thomas translator (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Octavo, 314 pages. In Good condition. Spine is brown with two black spine labels and gilt lettering. Bound in brown leather. Boards show moderate rubbing and scratching to front and back boards, spine. Boards show moderate rubbing to head, fore, and tail edges, minor bumping to tail edge of front board, minor tearing to leather on fore edges. Boards show moderate rubbing and bumping to fore edge corners, moderate rubbing and creasing to spine. Boards show moderate tear to length of spine, slightly exposing the binding. Boards show rubbing and bumping to headcap and tail. Textblock shows age toning, moderate foxing spots, minor scratching, minor smudging to head and fore edge. RWO Consignment. Shelved in Room X. 1371392. Special Collections - Downstairs.

8vo, pp. xxii, [2], 211, [1], with an engraved frontispiece and nine other engraved plates after Franz Ludwig Catel; a couple of leaves coming loose, but a good copy in contemporary half calf and marbled boards; spine worn and chipped at head and foot.First edition in English of Hermann und Dorothea (1798), translated into verse by the radical, novelist, and friend of Godwin, Thomas Holcroft. Goethe's epic, set against the background of the French Revolutionary Wars, was immensely popular in its day; Goethe praised Holcroft's rendition in a letter of 29 May 1801.The poem was printed in Bristol by Cottle, favourite of the Romantics, and the advertisements at the end include those for the important second edition of Lyrical Ballads, as well as Cottle's own Poems. Language: English.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG+/VG+/VG+/VG+. First English edition. 8vos. 380 +352 +424 +336pp. 1/4 bound leather & brown cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title, raised bands, topedges gilt, laidpaper, B&W frontis. Early rebind. Corners rubbed, light wear to joints and edges. Edgewear to interior and pages offset from previous binding. Pages toned and foxed. Binding tight. Scarce fourth volume present. Translated from the German by Holcroft.

Small 8vo, pp. xxii, [ii], 211, [1] advertisements; with engraved frontispiece and 9 plates (by various engravers after F. Catel); a good clean copy in contemporary calf (rather worn, but stoutly rebacked). First edition in English: a blank verse translation by Thomas Holcroft, whose fifty pages of preface and notes suggest that he took liberties with Goethe's original. The book was printed by Biggs and Cottle in Bristol, and the advertisements at the end are all for works by their stable of writers, all published by them in Bristol or printed for Longmans of London. These include several works by Southey, then three by the Cottle brothers (Joseph and his elder brother Amos Simon), followed by the two volumes of Lyrical Ballads in its 1800 edition (each given a separate entry), the poems of Mary Robinson and finally the second edition of the poems of Coleridge, which was the first to include those of Lamb and Lloyd, which had appeared in 1797.

Small 8vo, pp. xxii, [ii], 211, [1] advertisements; with engraved frontispiece and 9 plates (some offsetting onto text); neatly bound in contemporary calf, rebacked preserving the original spine and label, new endpapers. First edition in English: a blank verse translation by Godwin's friend Thomas Holcroft, whose fifty pages of preface and notes suggest that he took liberties with the original. The book was printed by Biggs and Cottle in Bristol, and the advertisements at the end are all for works by their stable of writers, all published by them in Bristol or printed for Longmans of London. These include several works by Southey, then three by the Cottle brothers (Joseph and his elder brother Amos Simon), followed by the two volumes of Lyrical Ballads in its 1800 edition (each given a separate entry), the poems of Mary Robinson and finally the second edition of the poems of Coleridge, which was the first to include those of Lamb and Lloyd, which had appeared in 1797.