Rowley thomas chatterton thomas (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo., xxix, 329 pp, engraved illustrated title page and facing it plain printed title page (some foxing). Extensive glossary. Facsimile illustration of supposed manuscript at page 198. Rebound in half dark brown leather with gilt titles on red label and decorations at spine. Marbled boards. A handsome copy. The anonymous Monody on the Death of Chatterton on pages xxv - xxviii was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and appears here in the same year as his first book, The Fall of Robespierre. Very good indeed.…

hardcover. Zustand: good. 1 plate. xxv, 307pp. 8vo, 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards rubbed, bottom of spine chipped, marbled endpapers, marbled edges, (binding is rubbed; upper front hinge split, fly leaf and title page loose, small corner of title page missing). London: T. Payne, 1777. First Edition. Good (+). DNB IV, p. 151. Lowndes III, p. 2139.…

Hardcover. Quarto, xix, [1], 545, [1] pages; G+; rebound in full brick buckram, gilt titling to spine; mild shelfwear; top edge of text block largely uncut; stamped number to verso of title page; ink name to front pastedown; lacking frontispiece; shelved case 0. ESTC: T147167. 1356582. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Hardcover. 8vo, 20.5cm, 2nd edition, 307p.,xxvii, [1],307p., (inc title page), 1 plate, in full contemporary dark brown sheep, blind ruled raised bands, crushed orange leather label, gilt titles, some slight wear on the board edges else a fine copy (n14) Chatterton invented his fifteenth-century monk, Thomas Rowley, when he was fifteen after his imagination was fired by finding some authentic scraps of manuscript, as depicted in the plate at page 288. He wrote the poems in an authentic medieval style, convincing a large proportion of his readers of their authenticity. Although later uncovered as a literary imposter, he was later taken more seriously as an artist in his own right, particularly by the Romantics, who venerated him as a misunderstood tragic genius: becoming Wordsworth's "marvelous boy" and Keats's "child of sorrow." For Oscar Wilde he was a "pure artist.".…

hardcover. Extra engraved title page, and one other plate bound at front. xxix, [3], 328pp. 8vo, handsomely bound in 18th century 3/4 burgundy morocoo over marbled boards with gilt-stamped spine; marbled endpapers, t.e.g. (binding is rubbed; joints cracked and repaired; ink marginalia on several pages, some of which has been eradicated). Cambridge: Printed by B. Flower, for the Editor. 1794. Includes the 4pp "Monody on the Death of Chatterton" by Coleridge - his first to be published in book form. "By internal and external evidence alike (Thomas) Chatterton is now known to have been the one sole author of these productions (this work)." DNB IV, p. 151. Lowndes III, p. 2139.…