stanhope george thomas (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. collins edition on brown gilded cloth a new translation and an introduction by george maine.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Good. Bennington: Darius Clark, 1816. 16mo. 240pp. Good book. Spine ends worn; tail and joints chipped. Boards spotted and edgeworn, corners frayed. Book is slightly dampstained at front hinge and first few pages; also at top corners and back endpapers. Pages aged with some spotting. Inquire if you need further information.

8vo (21 x 13.5 cm); 4 engraved plates including frontispiece, occasional minor spotting, gift inscription in pen to rear free endpaper verso, occasional light spotting, slight offsetting to frontispiece and title, small puncture hole to A5 with slight loss of text to verso; contemporary sprinkled calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine in 6 gilt banded compartments, a little rubbed, very good; [12], 339, [3], 45, [1]pp. An early edition in English of Thomas à Kempis' great spiritual meditation De Imitatione Christi, an important work of Christian mysticism in the Late Medieval Devotio Moderna movement which called for religious reform and apostolic renewal. Kempis (d.1471) was born in Kempen, in the Diocese of Cologne, but received his education at Deventer, in the Low Countries where he came into contact with the Fratres Vitae Communis, a majority lay confraternity founded by the Dutch deacon Gerard Groot, a leading figure in the Devotio Moderna movement. Members took no irrevocable vows, but lived according to the monastic principles of poverty, obedience and chastity, with all earnings put into a common fund. Having completed his studies, Kempis joined the reformed monastery of the Augustinian Canon Regulars at Mount Saint Agnes, near Zwolle, where he was ordained priest in 1413, later becoming Sub-Prior in 1429. From here he wrote lives of Groot and his associate Florentius Radwyn, and composed the four disparate mystical tracts, together forming the Imitation, which began to circulate in manuscript in the 1430s. The first printed edition appeared in 1473, and the first English-language translation in 1503 â" it has never been out of print since and remains a mainstay in the canon of Western literature.

Eleventh edition, 8vo., pp: xii+1-339,45[1], A-Z4, Aa-Bb4, frontispiece and 4 plates, with the armorial bookplate of Deburgh Earl of Clanricardie, possibly the 13th and 1st (1744-1808), succeeded his father as Earl and was from 1782 to 1789 the Earl - or his brother Henry de Burgh (1742-1797), 1st Marquess of Clanricardie - silk marker, marbled endpapers, contents very good condition. Possibly in an Irish Binding of a later date than publication in black morocco, gilt with ornate corners and borders, repeated to both boards and a central decorative rectangle to both boards with the use of distinctive tools. The spine with raised bands, gilt ruled, red leather title and author label, gilt cross and decoration to compartments. In the compartment beneath the label are carefully hidden in the decoration the clear initials "F N", presumably the Binder, all edges gilt, corners rubbed, hinges rubbed & very tender, little chipped to tail of spine, otherwise very good. Written originally in Latin by Thomas A'Kempis, now rendered into English, to which are added Meditations and prayers for sick persons by George Stanhope.General John Thomas de Burgh, 13th and 1st Earl of Clanricarde (1744-1808), was an Irish peer and soldier who was Governor of County Galway and a member of the Privy Council of Ireland. De Burgh raised the 88th Regiment of Foot, later became Colonel of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot. Later he was in command in Corsica and with Commodore Horatio Nelson, in Tuscany. He was promoted full General of the Army in 1803. After the death of his elder brother, Henry, 12th Earl and 1st Marquess of Clanricarde in 1797, John inherited the Earldom. The House of Burgh or Burke was an ancient Anglo-Norman and later Hiberno-Norman aristocratic dynasty (with the Anglo-Irish branches later adopting the surname Burke and its variants) who held the earldoms of Kent, Ultster, Clanricarde and Mayo at various times, provided one Queen Consort of Scotland and played a prominent role in the Norman invasion of Ireland. The original de Burgh coat of arms is blazoned as Or, a cross gules (a red cross upon a gold shield). Motto One king, one faith, one law.

Hardback, 8.25 x 5 inches. In full calf leather binding, raised and gilt banding to spine with gilt lettering to leather spine label. Speckled page edges. In very good condition. Later leather to spine. Later endpapers. Some chips and bumps to corners and edges of boards, chip to leather on front. Some occasional minor handling marks and occasional minor spot else pages and plates all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight early copy. Illustrated with 5 B&W engraved plates. 339pp + 45pp.

6. London, W. Innys a.o., 1751, frontispiece, x + 339 + ii + 45 pp, 4 plates h/t, contemporary leather, severe use at corners, raised back, frontcover completey detached. This edition not in the catalogue Delaveau-Sordet. They list under n° 730 an edition of 1742 by William Innys.

4. London, Printed by M. Roberts , for D. Brown, without Temple-Bar ; R. Sare, in Holborn., 1706, in-8°, (16)nn pp (engraved frontispiece included) + 339 pp + 4 full page engravings (signed M. Vander Gucht) + (2)nn pp + 45 pp (Meditations and Prayers) + (1)nn pp (list of books published by George Stanhope). Bound in later (19th. c.) black half leather with gilt title on spine, ex-library copy without stamps but with tipped on ex-libris on first paste down, some notes in ink on the blank recto of the title page. Still a good/fine copy. Not in the catalogue of Delaveau-Sordet. They list under n° 548 an edition from 1708.