sir john suckling carew hazlitt (2 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). A smart complete two volume set of the second edition of this collection of work from English poet Sir John Suckling. Complete in two volumes. Second edition, revised. With a portrait frontispiece to volume one. The poems and plays of Sir John Suckling, an English poet, prominent among the cavalier poets, who also invented the card game cribbage. With a memoir of the author, copious notes on the pieces, and a detailed appendix. Includes poems such as: Against Fruition, A Ballad Upon a Wedding, and To His Rivals. With plays such as: Aglaura and The Goblins. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt, an English lawyer, bibliographer, editor and writer. In the original burgundy cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. book.

Zustand: Good+. Second revised edition, FROM THE LIBRARY OF EGERTON CASTLE. Two Volumes. 8vos, incl. engraved frontis portrait to vol. I and fold-out 'The Svcklington Faction: Or, (Svcklings) Roaring Boyes' plate with title illustration to vol. II (large closed tear, taped at reverse), engraved headpieces and a number of title page vignettes. Half red morocco, red marbled paper boards, five raised spine bands rolled in gilt, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco gilt stamped spine label (lacking on vol. II). Marbled edges. Wear to edges and extremities, joints rubbed and starting. Egerton Castle's striking Egyptian-flavoured ex libris to front pastedowns, 'Egerton Castle' stamped in red to title pages, else, clean and tight. Good+ A sumptuously bound set of the works of Sir John Suckling from the library of Egerton Castle, the Victorian author, antiquarian and swordsman, featuring his striking Egyptian-flavoured bookplate. The grandson and namesake of the publishing magnate and philanthropist Egerton Smith, Egerton Smith Castle M. A. F.S.A. (18581920) was, aptly, an expert on bookplates and a keen collector. A practitioner of historical fencing, often performing with Captain Alfred Hutton, he also captained the British épée and sabre teams at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Half leather, marbled paper boards.