lewis matthew gregory monk (14 Ergebnisse)

Last few pages sl. stained in margin. Untrimmed in orig. purple moiré cloth with printed paper label on front board; sl. faded. Reprinting the poem written by Lewis in 1816 'on his last voyage to Jamaica', and privately printed there in 1827. No. 176 of 250 copies.

Untrimmed in orig. purple moiré cloth with printed paper label on front board. Later booklabel. v.g. Reprinting the poem written by Lewis in 1816 'on his last voyage to Jamaica', and privately printed there in 1827. No. 129 of 250 copies.

Last few pages sl. stained in margin. Untrimmed in orig. purple moiré cloth with printed paper label on front board; a little damp affected. Reprinting the poem written by Lewis in 1816 'on his last voyage to Jamaica', and privately printed there in 1827. No. 5 of 250 copies.

Bound into later marbled wrappers. This edition has 'undergone the ordeal of compression'. The version as acted at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, with Macready in the lead role.

FIRST EDITION. Sl. spotted, fore-edge of final leaf repaired with archival tape. Bound into later marbled wrappers. Adapted from Lewis's own work, The Bravo of Venice, also 1805, itself a translation of Johann Zschokke's sensational romance Abällino, der grosse Bandit, first published in 1793.

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Zustand: Good. Condition Notes: Binding is faded at the margins and spine. The contents deeply age-toned.; Hardback. Quarter-bound Orange on Green boards with blue titles to the spine; Measures 7" x 4¾" (0.7 kg); pp (vi) 320; No publishing date stated, estimated from references. || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #194061 ||.

Ad. on verso of final leaf; title a little browned. Disbound. ESTC T32397. Published the same year as the first edition. In his Preface Lewis states 'The plot of this comedy, as far as regards Rivers's visits to Modish and Mrs. Ormond, was taken from the Novel of Sidney Biddulph.' ESTC further observes, 'Based partly on A. F. von Kotzebue's Die Indianer in England'. The final four pages (pp73-76) of an altogether different work, identified as G.D. Harley's Biographical Sketch of the Life of. Young Roscius (1804), have been bound in after A4.

FIRST EDITION. Initial ad. leaf; the odd spot. Orig. purple fine-diaper cloth, paper spine label; spine faded to tan, but overall a v.g. clean copy. Sabin 40821. Although not published until 1834, Lewis's journal was written between November 1815 and May 1818. The last entry, dated May 2nd, was entered just two weeks before he succumbed to yellow fever while crossing the Atlantic en route to England. It covers two extended periods in Jamaica, where Lewis owned two estates. His observations cover all aspects of life on the plantation, from 'Plans for teaching the negroes', 'Happiness of the negro', and 'Capture of an alligator', to 'Impatience of the negro to be free', 'Insubordination' and 'Code of penalties'. The tone is certainly outdated from a modern perspective, but the author betrays a degree of enlightenment, referring to his 'negroes' and not his 'slaves', and it has latterly come to light that Lewis communicated with the abolitionist William Wilberforce in the months preceding his death, exploring the means by which emancipation might be achieved. In his last entry he states, 'What other negroes may be, I will not pretend to guess; but I'm certain that there cannot be more tractable or better disposed persons. than my negroes of Cornwall. I only wish, that in my future dealings with white persons, whether in Jamaica or out of it, I could not meet with half so much gratitude, affection, and good will'.

Half titles, final ad. leaf vol. I, errata leaf & 4pp ads vol. IV. Neatly bound in near contemp. drab boards, tan calf spines, ruled & with devices in blind, dark blue leather labels; light rubbing. With monogram booklabels on leading pastedown in all four vols, & the armorial bookplate of Methyr Guest in vol. I, & on following pastedown in vols II-IV. Additionally, each vol. is blind-stamped (most unusually) directly on to the front & back board with an armorial device, bearing the legend 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' (the motto of the chivalric Order of the Garter). A lovely copy. Summers pp 96 & 324. Copac lists Copies at the BL & Cambridge only. A very nice copy in contemporary binding of Lewis's free translation of Madame de Naubert's celebrated gothic novel, first published in German in 1789 as Elisabeth, Erbin von Toggenburg, oder Geschichte der Frauen von Sargans in der Schweiz. Lewis's rendition was not well received; the Critical Review (July 1807), in particular, singling it out for opprobrium: 'ghosts, bones, chains, dungeons, castles, forests, murders, and rapine pass before us in long order, till sated with horrors and habituated to their view we regard them all with as much composure as an undertaker contemplates the last melancholy rites of his mortal brethren'. But the public evidently had not grown weary of 'ghosts, bones and murders', a third edition being announced in the summer of 1807. A particularly scarce title.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Magazine. Edited by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer. Quarto. About near fine with crease to rear corner, miniscule chip to front corner and a hint of toning. The seventh and final issue of Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer experimental and uncommon magazine. Contributors include Anne Waldman, John Giorno, Hannah Weiner, Lewis Warsh, Marjorie Strider, Adrian Piper, Lil Picard, Arakawa, Bobbi Gormley, Matthew Klein, Deborah Hollingworth, Keith Hollinger, Gregory Battcock, Scott Burton, James Lee Byars, Rosemarie Castoro, Eduardo Costa, Bill Creston, Stephen Kaltenbach, Les Levine, Lucy Lippard, Meridith Monk, Ben Patterson, and John Perreault.

FIRST EDITION. 2 vols in 1. Continuously paginated. Final ad. leaf vol. II. 2 vols in 1 in contemp. half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, black morocco label; spine & hinges rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Earle Welby; neat ink signature of W. Welby on titlepage. A nice copy. See Montague Summer pp525-527 & p.529. Todd & Bowden (Scott Bibliography) 7Aa. Originally conceived in 1798, Tales of Wonder, a collection of 60 ballads with a vaguely supernatural theme, was published in 1801. It had been delayed to such an extent that in 1799 one of its contributors, a then largely unknown Walter Scott, published, out of frustration, a short work entitled An Apology for The Tales of Terror, referring to the present work by its unused working title. Confusingly, another very similar work, a volume of macabre poems using the title Tales of Terror, was also published in 1801. It seems likely that it was deliberately published to mimic Tales of Wonder, but the assumption that Lewis was involved is unlikely. This has not stopped the two works often being confused or conflated, and in some places Tales of Terror is still attributed to Lewis. As well as original contributions by Lewis, Tales of Wonder contains three original poems by Sir Walter Scott; 'The Fire-King', 'Glenfinlas, or Lord Ronald's Coronach' and 'The Eve of St. John'. There are also two translations by Scott from the German, 'Frederick and Alice' and 'The Wild Huntsman'. Robert Southey contributes seven poems; 'The Old Woman of Berkeley', 'Bishop Bruno', 'Lord William', 'The Painter of Florence', 'Donica', 'Cornelius Agrippa's Bloody Book' and 'Rudiger'. There are also contributions by Robert Burns ('Tam O'Shanter'), John Dryden, Ben Jonson, George Colman the Younger, and others. This copy belonged to Sir William Earle Welby, 1734-1815, baronet, land-owner, MP, and the High Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 1796 to 1797.

FIRST EDITION. Disbound. (AN) The music was by M.P. King and Michael Kelly. Originally performed in 1807 as The Wood Dæmon.

FIRST EDITION. Ad. on verso of final leaf; sl. dusted. Disbound. 'This drama is in a great measure translated from a French Play in four acts, called "Les Victimes Cloitrées".'.

Disbound. (2), 22pp. BL only on Copac.