smith james horatio (13 Ergebnisse)

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st thus 1813. Good condition with no wrapper. Pale blue boards with paper title to spine. Consisting of Imitations of The First Two Books of The Odes of Horace. Third edition. Much of paper covering to spine is chipped away (so can see gatherings/stitching of pages underneath. Covers are marked. Foxing throughout, but heaviest to prelims and endpapers and outer page edges. Name in ink to title page. Binding a bit weak; a few hinges are pulled. A working copy ONLY! Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnbTitle:/b Rejected Addresses, and other poems. . With portraits and a biographical sketch. Edited by E. Sargent.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of t.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Originally published in 1812. Contains the original preface. 3/4 leather over clean marbled boards. Spine with raised bands, title and gilt decorated panels. Marbled endpapers. Pictorial frontispiece. Illustrated with engravings & drawings. A collection of addresses for the new Drury Theatre. Prior owners book plate . Theatre; Engraved illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 170 pages.

Half Calf. Zustand: Very Good. Book measures 18x11.5.cm. Collation, xi,[1],173pp. Bound in half calf, calf corners, marble boards, raised bands, ornate gilt tooling within compartments, top gilt edge, marble endpapers. Calf lightly rubbed, minor wear. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, previous owners bookplate. Pages in good clean condition. A nice copy, in a very attractive binding. Size: Small 8 Vo.

Fifteenth Edition. Very good copy in gilt-tooled leather, with marbled edges and raised bands to spine. Slightly rubbed at the panel edges and spine bands. Margins lightly foxed, with a small marginal tear to pages 1 and 65 with text unaffected. Contemporary reader inscription to flyleaf. Remains tight, strong and well-preserved overall. Physical description; xiii, 127 pages ; 16 cm. Notes; With 1 page of booksellers' advertisements. Subjects; English poetry - 19th century, English wit and humor - 19th century, Parodies, Literary. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 2 Vols, later half pebble morocco gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Engraved portrait [some foxing], slight soiling of text, Vol 2 cloth sides patchy. Very good copy. Spoof collection of amusingly offbeat remarks ethical, political & philosophical. The fictitious Chatfield's 'strange and sometimes startling notions', such as free medicine to the poor, are collected here under alphabetical heads. Horatio Smith was the novelist friend of Shelley and famously the co-author with his brother of Rejected Addresses. Sadleir 3109. Wolff 6937. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Format is approximately 4 inches by 6.5 inches. viii, 173, [5] pages. Footnotes. Front board weak and has been restrengthened with glue. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of George A. Zabriskie inside front cover. This is believed to be the same person who was President of the New-York Historical Society from 1939-1947. Pasted in at the front is a letter to Henry Colburn from Horatio Smith dated 25 June 1829. The recipient it believed to be the Henry Colburn (1784 - 16 August 1855) who was a British publisher. The letter discussed the upcoming submission of Smith's new novel. The letter has been folded several times and has some tears at the folds but it intact. Given the handwriting style of the time, some parts may be difficult to read. Horace (born Horatio) Smith (31 December 1779 - 12 July 1849) was an English poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his participation in a sonnet-writing competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was of Smith that Shelley said: "Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous." Smith was born in London, the fifth of eight children, son of Robert Smith (1747-1832) F.R.S. and his wife Mary Bogle. He was educated at Chigwell School with his elder brother James Smith, also a writer. Horace first came to public attention in 1812 at the time of the rebuilding of the Drury Lane Theatre, after it had burnt down; the managers offered a prize of £50 for an address to be recited at the Theatre's reopening in October. The Smith brothers wrote parodies of poets of the day, supposedly their failed entries in the competition, and sold the collection under the title Rejected Addresses. James parodied Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge and Crabbe, while Horace parodied Byron, Moore, Scott and Bowles. Smith went on to become a prosperous stockbroker. After making his fortune, Horace Smith produced a series of historical novels: Brambletye House (1826), Tor Hill (1826), Reuben Apsley (1827), Zillah (1828), The New Forest (1829), Walter Colyton (1830), among others. Three volumes of Gaieties and Gravities, published by him in 1826, contain many clever essays both in verse and prose, but the only piece that remains much remembered is the " Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's Exhibition." The Rejected Addresses, with seven editions within three months, still stands the most widely popular parodies ever published in the country. The book was written without malice; none of the poets caricatured took offence, while the imitation is so clever that both Byron and Scott claimed that they could scarcely believe they had not written the addresses ascribed to them. The only other collaboration by the two brothers was Horace in London (1813). James Smith (10 February 1775 - 24 December 1839) was an English writer. He is best known as co-author of the Rejected Addresses, with his younger brother Horace. Smith entered his father's office and succeeded him as solicitor to the Board of Ordnance in 1812. He died, unmarried, at his house in Craven Street, Strand, London, and was buried in the vaults of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. The other joint undertaking of the two brothers was Horace in London (1813). James Smith made another hit in writing Country Cousins, A Trip to Paris, A Trip to America, and other skits for Charles Mathews, who said he was "the only man who can write clever nonsense.".

xvi, 127 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Eleventh edition. Eleventh edition. xvi, 127 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Parodies of contemporary poets including Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Scott, and Crabbe; apparently Campbell complained of not being included This copy has an interesting provenance, with the ownership signature of the Shropshire poet and ornithologist, John Freeman Milward Dovaston, (1782-1854). "It is rather for his pioneer experiments in ornithology and his friendship with Thomas Bewick that Dovaston is principally notable . his library of over 3000 volumes was dispersed by auction in 1910." - DNB. Contemporary maroon half calf and marbled. With ownership signature of Shropshire poet, John F.M. Dovatson.

First editions. First editions. Pp. [iii]-xiii, [3],126, [1 page publisher's advertisements; xi, [1], 173 lacking half-title in first work, contents leaf of the first work on a stub. 1 vols. 12mo. Parodies of contemporary poets including Byron, Moore, Coleridge, Southey, Scott, and Crabbe, apparently Campbell complained of not being included. The Coleridge piece has a slip tipped on noting Coleridge's death the 25th July 1834. Sadleir 3106; 3101. Sadleir 3106; 3101 Later half green morocco, spine with a neat paper label showing a printer. Rubbed, spine faded to brown, ex-library with partially removed label on title, and first leaf endpapers and blanks at front and back removed, extensive manuscript notations (some contemporary, some cropped) and identifications in pen and pencil, splashmarks on pages 34, 35 and 38 of second work, well-read, else a very good copy Pp. [iii]-xiii, [3],126, [1 page publisher's advertisements; xi, [1], 173 lacking half-title in first work, contents leaf of the first work on a stub. 1 vols. 12mo.

See his entry, and those of his brother and the recipient, in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 4to. Bifolium. The letter had been torn in half, with loss of a strip of paper from the second leaf, resulting in damage to a couple of words from the valediction; it has been carefully repaired with archival tape, and is otherwise in fair condition, lightly aged, with slight fading of the ink on the first page. The large signature 'James Smith' is clear and undamaged. Addressed to 'J. W. Croker Esq'. An interesting letter, casting light on the workings of the Georgian civil service. At the time of writing Croker was Secretary to the Admiralty. The first paragraph reads: 'My dear Croker / The Appointment of Sir Giffin Wilson to a Mastership in Chancery has occasioned a Vacancy in the Office of Solicitor to the Board of Ordnance: so called although its duties are those of a Barrister. Sargeant Adair hed that office formerly and it was the custom of the Board, up to his period, to obtain the Reports of the Solicitor, as their Counsel, through the information of their Assistant Solicitor. My father was at this Time the Assistant Solicitor: and from the difficulty of obtaining the Sergeants Reports in Time, the Board adopted the Practice of being content with those of my father, as their Assistant Solicitor: afterwards of my father & self as joint Assistant Solicitors, and now of myself singly. This practice has prevailed for upwards of thirty years.' In the second half of the letter he continues his explanation of the various situations of solicitor and assistant solicitor, before asking Croker if he could use his influence to push for a merger of the two posts: 'I need not say that I should feel gratified and obliged.' His father failed in a similar application twenty-five years before, as a member of parliament had to hold the office of solicitor. 'Latterly, however, you are aware that Sir G. Wilson was not in Parliament.' It is not clear whether Croker intervened, or whether Smith's application was went any further.

Two pages, bifolium, 4to, fold marks and minor faint staining, good condition. An earlier draft of the satirical piece printed first in "Comic Miscellanies" (1840)(no other publication listed by LION, though one has to suspect an earlier periodical publication). Comparison with samples of Horatio's and James's hands (the latter is poorly represented by a hasty note in the BL collections) lead to my conclusion that Horatio wrote out this version in his neat hand with its flourishing capitals. There are many differences between this and the printed version: "Harborough" to the printed "Scarborough", line 2; "pleas'd " to "suit", line 4; "Please to give" to "Do give", line 9; "in the Islington Road" to "near the Islington Pound", line 12; "satin" to "sarcenet", line 19, etc etc. The final lines are headed "Reply", to printed "Answer". Contemporary references include Don Juan (first published 1822) and Lord Byron, and a "velocipede" (OED 1819).

1 page. 8vo. 1 page. 8vo. A pair of letters from brother-humorists James Smith (1775-1839) and Horatio Smith (1779-1849), authors of the celebrated parody anthology "Rejected Addresses" (1812) which included imitations of Byron, Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Scott, et al, "undoubtedly the best known collection of parodies published in the period" (Romantic Parodies, 1797-1831, #12). The letter of James Smith reads: "My dear Madam, I feel much mortified that an engagement on the 8th of May will deprive me of the pleasure which Shakespear and you never fail to excite. Pray present my compliments to Mr. Bartley." The letter of Horatio Smith reads: "The prize to Miss Ellen Gee in the last Mag having been copied into the papers here, has become so popular that I have been tempted to follow up the idea with something a little more enigmatical, which, if you do not think it infra dig; may be inserted in the next number" Toned, mounted. WITH: Autograph Letter Signed ("Horatio Smith"), 1 p, 8vo, Brighton, 14 October 1828, toned, tipped to verso of same mount.