defence short view profaneness von collier jeremy (8 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Edition Unstated. Size: 7 1/2" x 4 3/4". . Rebound, half gilt-stamped dark brown leather with marbled paper over boards, 139 pages. Minor scuffs at extremities, some light staining to marbled paper, notes in period ink at very end, some scattered tick marks throughout, foxing/toning on pages. Still generally very good with tight binding. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 11 oz. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 016460.

Hardcover. Octavo, [4], 139, [1] pages; G; Bound in full brown calf. Significantly worn and marked binding with chipping and rubbing to boards and cracking to joints. Loss of material at head of spine. Text block age-toned and foxed, with some chipping to edges of first and last leaves. An ex-library copy with usual markings, including bookplate on front pastedown and punched stamp on title page. JR Consignment. Shelved Room G. ESTC R20799; Wing C5248. A defense by Collier of his work and a reply to "Amendments of Mr. Collier's false and imperfect citations" by William Congreve and to "A short vindication of The relapse and The provok'd wife from immorality and prophaneness" by Sir John Vanbrugh. 1345527. Special Collections.

pp. (iv), 139, (i). 8vo. Full calf. Front hinge rubbed, but firm, minor foxing. 1st edition. Lowe, Arnott & Robinson 291. ESTC R20799.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Poor disbound 139pp title darkened & cropped foxing & marking RARE BOOK Jeremy Collier, 1650-1726. Book.

First edition, 8vo, pp. pp. [4], 139, [1] ads; contemporary speckled calf, front hinge cracked, later black morocco label on spine; prelims and terminals a little foxed, else a good copy. Wing C5248.

8vo, [iv] 139 pp. [iv]. Contemporary panelled calf, florets to corners. Raised bands bordered in gilt to spine, red leather spine label in gilt ('COLLIER ON THE STAGE'), publication date to foot. Historical restoration to title page and marking ('4C') to front pastedown, extensive foxing throughout, but a well preserved, tightly bound copy. First edition. Godfrey Bosville's copy, with his ownership signature to [iii]. The theologian, puritan and theatre critic Jeremy Collier [1650-1726] believed it was the duty of theatre to defend societal norms and traditional values, to praise virtue, and to glorify God. He said so, long and loud, in his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage (1698). The Restoration playwrights begged to differ, battle lines were drawn, and war by pamphlet duly broke out. After a battering from the playwrights themselves (Sir John Vanbrugh chief among them) Collier published this defence of his position -- and largely won the day. For most of the eighteenth century the British stage was colonised by the anodyne and sentimental; only with the advent of Goldsmith and Sheridan in the 1770s would licentiousness and laughter return. This copy bears the ownership signature of Godfrey Bosville [1654-1714], High Sheriff of Yorkshire [1704-5]. Wing C5248.