Field waterloo poem (21 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Archibald Constable slim half bound volume Second Edition 1815 on black & marbled outer boards + owners signature to end paper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good- with no dust jacket. First American Edition. 12 mo; 48 pages; Contemp. Bds. ; with title page reproduced on front board. Minor dampstaining to front matter & 1/2 title. Contents complete. 5 1/2 x 3 1/4". Last free blank endpaper with top 25% lacking.

8vo, (210mm.), (5-)54p. lacking the half-title. Some slight spotting mainly confined to the outer margins. [bound with] Edward SMEDLEY, THE DEATH OF SAUL AND JONATHAN. A Poem. London: Printed by W. Bulmer. for John Murray, and J. Deighton & Sons, Cambridge, 1814. 8vo, [6],33p. some spotting. Together 2 volumes in 1. . Contemporary half calf, backstrip tooled and ruled in gilt, shell pattern marbled paper sides and endleaves, front joint split but holding, fly-leaves rather spotted; stencilled ownership stamp of the Rev. W. Mason on the verso of the front free endleaf.(Isaac, 'checklist' in William Bulmer the fine printer in context 502a) Scott's poem first appeared in October 1815 and by this third edition of November of that year 10,000 copies had been printed. Despite its large sale the poem met with little critical approval and much widespread joking including a squib attributed by Lord Erskine: 'On Waterloo's ensanguined plain | Lie tens of thousands of the slain; | But none, by sabre or by shot, | Fell half so flat as Walter Scott.' Smedley's poem won the Seaton prize poem and offers 'a poignant lament on the biblical tragedy from 1 Samuel emphasising themes of loyalty, loss, and divine judgement.'. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 56 pages; Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. For Archibald Constable and Co. , Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and John Murray, London, 1815. First edition, with half-title. 8vo. 56, [4], [2] pp. Todd & Bowden 84Aa. Modern rebinding of quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, printed title label to upper cover; original drab paper wrappers preserved and bound in, with rubbing and shallow flaking to the edges. Ownership signature to first blank dated Nov. 3, 1815 â" within weeks of publication. Blanks at front and rear spotted and toned, but text pages bright and fresh.Complete with the terminal advertisement leaves, including Ballantyne's list of Scott's works and, on the final unnumbered leaf, Richard Sasse's proposals for publishing prints of the Battle of Waterloo and the Defence of Hougoumont. VG. …

54pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition. First edition. 54pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Van Antwerp 15; Ruff 147; Tinker 1871. Van Antwerp 15; Ruff 147; Tinker 1871 Later darb boards. Bookplate of Frasier W. McCann.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. 8vo. Rebound into green cloth hardback with silver lettering on backstrip. Blue end pages. Original cover bound up to page 54. Contains advertisement at the front and notes at the end. Lightly foxed pages with staining on pages 36 to 39 on outer pageblock edge. Pages are otherwise clean and binding is tight. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN.…

Half title, final ad. leaf. Disbound. Todd & Bowden 84Ab. Paginated (viii), 193-240, this was separately issued, but also added to Ballads & Lyrical Pieces, 4th edn.

FIRST EDITION. Half title. Disbound. Todd & Bowden 84Aa; without final ad. leaf.

First edition. First edition. 54pp. Portrait of Napoleon inserted from another book. 1 vols. 8vo. Van Antwerp 15; Ruff 147; Tinkerf 1871 Later three quarter crimson morocco and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine 54pp. Portrait of Napoleon inserted from another book. 1 vols. 8vo.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. 56, 4 (ads), [2] A proposal for publishing a print of . the Battle of Waterloo; original brown paper wrappers; edges worn, curled, and chipped, mathematical calculation on blank verso of last leaf and recto of rear flyleaf; some toning and light foxing; a good copy. "The poem was the first upon a subject likely to be sufficiently hackneyed; and, having the advantage of coming out in a small cheap form - (prudently imitated from Murray's innovation with the tales of Byron, which was the deathblow to the system of verse in quarto) - it attained rapidly a measure of circulation above what had been reached either by Rokeby or the Lord of the Isles" (Lockhart, v.106-107). Bowden & Todd 84Aa.…