W burgh ed (1 Ergebnisse)
Weitere BilderVerlag: John Sharpe, London, 1819
- Hardcover
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes KönigreichRooke Books PBFA
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In den WarenkorbCloth. Zustand: Very Good. A nineteenth century edition of the works of William Mason, published in a practical duodecimo format, two volumes bound together. The poetic works of English poet, William Mason. Two volumes, The English Garden: A Poem and Elfrida and Caractacus: Dramatic Poems with Mason's Minor Poems Part I. and Par…t II. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Both works with an individual engraved title page. Mason is particularly well known for The English Garden, a long, georgic poem using the theme of the quintessential English garden as an allusion to his support of Whiggism and Anglicanism. Originally published in four parts between 1772 and 1782. This edition with notes and a commentary to The English Garden by Anglo-Irish politician and abolitionist, William Burgh, first included in the 1783 edition. This copy with the bookplate of twentieth-century British poet and academic, Vivian de Sola Pinto, to the front pastedown. De Sola Pinto published two volumes of poetry during his career; This Is My Englandand Crisis in English Poetry, 18801940. He notably appeared for the defence in the 1960 watershed obscentiy trial, brought against Penguin Books for publishing D. H. Lawrence's uncensored version ofLady Chatterley's Lover. Bound in the original publisher's cloth. Externally, smart. Light sunning and minor edgewear to extremities. Minor loss to paper spine label. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, straining to hinge throughout, but pages firmly bound. THe odd page trimmed. Pages bright and clean. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.
