shepherd rev william (4 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fair. Hardback, brown cloth (buckram) binding. 16pp of publisher's advertisements, xii, 284pp. 3rd edition 1814. Binding faded and worn, fraying to outer edge of spine. Repair to head of spine. Previous owners' details to front pastedown. Front inner hinge splitting across end-papers. A good reading copy. (r31).

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Reading copy only. Front board and preliminary pages detached, but present. In polypropylene bag. (france, history).

First edition. 4to. (4), iv, 487 pp. Engraved view on title page; with the half-title. Poggio (1380-1459), an Italian scholar and humanist, "was responsible for rediscovering and recovering many classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries" (Wikipedia), including works by Lucretius, Cicero, and Quintilian, among others. Shepherd (1768-1847), of Liverpool and a "dissenting minister and politician, . his interest in Italian literature aroused by his friendship with William Roscoe, led to [this work] . received with general approbation [and] translated into French, German, and Italian"; from 1796 he served as a burgess of Liverpool, "taking an active part in municipal affairs in the advanced liberal interest" (DNB). Early 19th-century armorial bookplate of Charles Lawrence on front pastedown, a very good wide-margined copy. Contemporary red straight-grain half-morocco (old repairs to joints and corners) and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt title and riles on spine. (11096).

First Edition. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], iv, 487, [1]; engraved vignette title page; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; top of spine chipped away, joints cracking, good and sound. Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459) was an Italian humanist scholar of the Renaissance. His biographer, William Shepherd (1768-1847), was an English abolitionist, educator, dissenting minister, politician, and poet whose interest in Italian literature was stimulated by his friendship with William Roscoe. EB-11 cites the work as "a good authority.".