Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Verlag: 1st edit., Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1910. Bookplate of L. & M. Baker., 1910
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. No Jacket. Frank Brangwyn (illustrator). 20 colour and 16 collotype plates, appendices, index; xiv+259pp. folio orig. cloth, rubbed, split at head of upper joint, t.e.g.,
Verlag: Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. M DCC LXXXIII. Sold by D. Prince and J. Cooke. By J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall. J.F. and C. Rivington St Paul's Church-Yard London. T. Baker at Southampton and J. Burdon at Winchester, 1783
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In den Warenkorb4to, pp. [ii], 104l title page a little dusty; in modern wrappers. First and only edition. Henry James Pye (1745-1813) is often thought of as the least distinguished of all Poets Laureate, although Roger Lonsdale did find a passage from one poem worth including in his New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-century Verse.
Verlag: London: printed for J. Dodsley Pall-mall; Mess. Baker and Leigh York-street Covent-garden; J. Walter Charing-cross; T. Cadell in the Strand; and J. Wilkie no. 71 St. Paul's Church-yard, 1769
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In den Warenkorb8vo, pp. [vi], 288; title page and first few leaves a little foxed; bound in 19th century half roan, spine lettered in gilt, lower joint partly split. First edition of this book, a contribution to the defence of Shakespeare against Voltaire's strictures, and the book for which Montagu is best remembered.
Verlag: Printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Mess. Baker and Leigh, York-Street, Covent-Garden; J. Walter, Charing-Cross; T. Cadell, in the Strand; and J. Wilkie, No 71. St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1769, 1769
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In den Warenkorb[4], 288pp. 8vo. Crease to P8 & Q1. Full contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt floral borders, raised & gilt banded spine, red morocco label; wear to headcap, corner tips, upper inch of front joint cracked. ESTC T33417 notes a plate but this appears to be an anomaly. This work was written in response to Voltaire's criticism of Shakespeare, published as 'Sur la tragédie' in Lettres philosphiques (1734). Amongst other criticisms he denounced Shakespeare's mixture of verse and prose, and stated that Hamlet (which he had seen in London in the 1720s) was the work of a drunken savage.
Verlag: Printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Mess. Baker and Leigh, York-Street, Covent Garden; J. Walter, Charing Cross; T. Cadell, in the Strand; and J. Wilkie, No. 71. St. Paul's Churchyard, London, 1769
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[4], 288 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Edition. First Edition. [4], 288 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rothschild 1449; Jaggard, p. 220 Half nineteenth century pebbled morocco and cloth, uncut. Booplate of Frederick Wiley Hilles.
Verlag: Printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Mess. Baker and Leigh, York-Street, Covent Garden; J. Walter, Charing Cross; T. Cadell, in the Strand; and J. Wilkie, No. 71. St. Paul's Churchyard, London, 1769
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[4], 288 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition. First edition. [4], 288 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scarce first ediiton of the first book by the famous and erudite 'bluestocking', Elizabeth Montagu, and a great success. A direct attack on Voltaire's criticisms of Shakespeare, published four years after Dr. Johnson (another great adversary of Voltaire), brought out his edition of the English dramatist. Contemporary polished calf, upper cover detached and worn.