Wesley samuel elder (2 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: London. Printed for Benj. Cowse and John Hooke, 1715
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12mo, pp. [xii], 305, [1] blank, [9] table, [5] advertisements; plus an engraved frontispiece and additional title page; in 19th-century half calf and green cloth boards, gilt, spine gilt, later brown morocco label (a little rubbed, upper joint weak). First edition, second issue. A re-issue of the sheets of the original printing… of 1701, with a cancel letterpress title-page; the engraved title-page, with its earlier date, has been retained. Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) was the son of a dissenting clergyman, but he decided as a young man to accept the established church, and was thus able to secure a place at Exeter College, Oxford, where he earned his BA in 1688; his ordination followed shortly afterwards. Wesley began writing verse as an undergraduate, and a collection of poems with the unfortunate title Maggots was published in 1685 by his brother-in-law, the bookseller John Dunton. His later literary efforts were on more conventional subjects. Wesley had a large family, and is now best remembered as the father of John and Charles Wesley, the founders of Methodism. This volume consists of 151 selections from the Gospels and Acts, with Wesley's version in heroic couplets on facing pages; a small engraving by John Sturt appears at the head of each group of verses from the Bible. At the front is a full-page emblematic engraving of 'Heav'nly Wisedom'. Wesley published a companion volume for the Old Testament in 1705, which was also re-issued in 1715. Foxon W326.
Verlag: London: printed for John Hooke., 1715
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Anbieter: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, Vereinigtes KönigreichChristopher Edwards ABA ILAB
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Three volumes, small 8vo, pp. [xii], 351, [1] errata; [ii], 352-687, [1], 697-709, [1 blank, [2] advertisements; [xx], 305, [1] blank, [9] table, [5] advertisements; with engraved frontispiece and title page in vol. I, engraved title page in vol. II, and frontispiece and title page in vol. III; a very good, complete copy in cont…emporary panelled calf, stoutly rebacked; with new endpapers. First edition of all three volumes, with the third volume being a reissue of the original edition of 1701. A remarkable achievement, both by poet and by engraver. Foxon W328 (volumes I-II) and W326 (volume III). Foxon's collation of the second volume seems not quite to match this one, but this does appear to be complete.