trans john hoole (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Volume 1. (poetry, Crusades, Jerusalem, history) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). John Hoole's translation of the epic poem 'Jerusalem Delivered' by the notable Italian poet Torquato Tasso, complete in one volume. The ninth edition of this work in the publisher's original boards. Jerusalem Delivered, also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem, is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), first published in 1581. This highly imaginative poem tells the story of the First Crusade in which Christian knights battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. The poem was hugely successful and influential. This is the ninth edition of John Hoole"s English translation of this work, written in heroic couplets. It is complete in one volume. In the publisher's original boards. Externally, sound, though lightly soiled to the boards. Small tear to the tail of the spine, vertical crack to the spine, and small loss to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good. book.

Zustand: Good. First edition of this translation. Octavo (23 cm). Five volumes. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume, after Angelica Kauffman, Thomas Stothard (engraved by William Blake), Gertrud Metz, and William Hamilton. Engraved portraits of Hoole and Ariosto in volume 1. Illustration of Ariosto's chair and inkwell in volume 1. Errata and subscriber list bound in at end of volume 5. Complete collation upon request. In roughly contemporary tree-calf marbled leather over pasteboard, gold garlanded borders made with a roller tool. Spines decorated in gold with stars within roundels. Recent black leather title labels. Volume labels not present. Spine ends worn, with fissure visible along spine of volume IV. Light wear to edges. Scattered foxing. Tender joints reinforced with Japanese paper. Ownership inscription on front blank. The19th-century literary historian Henry Hallam called Ariosto "Europe's second-favorite poet after Homer." Indeed there was an appetite for a modern English translation to replace the Elizabethan version by John Harington. John Hoole assumed the enormous task, and produced this very popular version in rhymed couplets with extensive annotation and a biographical essay. The publication is notable for the commission, in volume three, of a frontispiece plate engraved by William Blake, as well as for plates after Angelica Kauffman, Gertrud Metz, and William Hamilton.