thoughts four last things death (13 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnbTitle:/b Thoughts upon the Four Last Things: Death Judgment Heaven Hell. A poem, etc. [By Joseph Trapp.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the Uni.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnbTitle:/b Thoughts upon the Four Last Things: Death Judgment Heaven Hell. A poem, etc. [By Joseph Trapp.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the Uni.

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Small 8vo, pp. vii, [i], 132; contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked (covers rubbed). Second edition: first published in four parts in 1734-5, when the Whigs (under Walpole) had long been in the ascendancy. Despite the great change in the political leadership which had taken place, Trapp chose not to alter the bitterness of his preface to this collected edition, and simply added a terse three-line note at the end about the three Psalms here first printed ('we need say no more of them'). The notes originally printed at the end of Part IV have now been printed as footnotes. A posthumous third edition published in 1749 was the first to bear the author's name. Rare: Foxon T463 locates only the copies at the BL, Bodleian, Aberdeen and Union Theological Seminary; ESTC adds another in Oxford (New College) and Cornell.

Disbound. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce meditation of death by the clergyman Joseph Trapp. The first edition of this very scarce work.Part I of Joseph Trapp's four part poem 'Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things', for which each part was published separately. This is Part I only, 'Death'.Register runs as A-G2.Collated, complete.In this work, Joseph Trapp, explores death through a religious lens, meditating on the subject and its inevitability.Trapp was a clergyman, pamphleteer, and academic. Though he was established in his profession, he was not well thought of as a poet, with Jonathan Swift refusing his dinner invites, in an attempt to avoid having to revise one of Trapp's poems. Disbound. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots and handling marks Good. book.

Four parts bound together, folio, pp. 28; 28; 25, [1] advertisement; 25, [1] errata, [5] notes to all four parts, [1] advertisement; lower margins trimmed a trifle close, affecting two type ornaments and a few catchwords, otherwise in good condition; in new quarter calf. First edition of Parts II-IV. There are two quite distinct printing of the first part, one of them no doubt a reprint to make up complete sets, but it has thus far been impossible to determine which came first; in this set signature C appears directly below the 'B' in 'Body', as opposed to being under the word 'the'. This was Trapp's last major publication in verse. A preliminary 'Advertisement to the Reader' expresses vividly the sense of frustration felt by high-church Tories after years of Whig ascendancy, following the Hanoverian succession: 'However dull, and trite it may be, to declaim against the Corruptions of the Age One lives in; I presume it will be allow'd me by Everybody, that all manner of Wickedness, both in Principles, and Practice, abounds among us at present to a degree unheard of in any Christian State, or Kingdom, since Christianity was in Being. We have been bad enough, God knows, ever since my Remembrance; and I have liv'd in six Reigns: but for about the twenty Years last past, the English Nation has been, and is, so prodigiously debauch'd; its very Nature and Genius so chang'd; that I scarce know it to be the English Nation, and am almost a Foreigner in my own Country.' This preface, along with a three-page list of contents, was printed at the end of Part IV, but has here been placed to follow the title-page of Part I, in accordance with a note of directions to the binder. Foxon T456, T458, T459, and T460.

Four parts bound together, folio, pp. 28; 28; 25, [1] advertisement; 25, [1] errata, [5] notes to all four parts; disbound. First edition of Parts II-IV. There are two quite distinct printings of the first part, one of them no doubt a reprint to make up complete sets, but it has thus far been impossible to determine which came first; in this set signature C appears below the word 'the'. The preliminary leaves printed with Part IV remain in place, having not been transferred to follow the title-page of Part I, as requested by the instructions to the binder. This was Trapp's last major publication in verse. A preliminary 'Advertisement to the Reader' expresses vividly the sense of frustration felt by high-church Tories after years of Whig ascendancy, following the Hanoverian succession: 'However dull, and trite it may be, to declaim against the Corruptions of the Age One lives in; I presume it will be allow'd me by Everybody, that all manner of Wickedness, both in Principles, and Practice, abounds among us at present to a degree unheard of in any Christian State, or Kingdom, since Christianity was in Being. We have been bad enough, God knows, ever since my Remembrance; and I have liv'd in six Reigns: but for about the twenty Years last past, the English Nation has been, and is, so prodigiously debauch'd; its very Nature and Genius so chang'd; that I scarce know it to be the English Nation, and am almost a Foreigner in my own Country.' Foxon T457, T458, T459, and T460.