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Poems on Various Subjects. Whereto is prefixed A Short Essay on the Structure of English Verse.
Nottingham: Printed for the Author, by Samuel Cresswell, 1765. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 207 x 119 mms., pp. [xix], iii - v, 5 - 32, [4], iii- v [vi blank], [3] - 143 [144 blank], including list of subscribers, title-page in red and black, contemporary speckled calf, red leather label, paper label on cover, with the ownership inscription (in red ink) dated 22 April 1905 of Major C. E. Cresswell on the recto of the front free end-paper and the title-page, the oval armorial library stamp of Lt. Col. William Allen Potter, High Sheriff of Nottingham (1944) on the front paste-down end-paper. A very good to fine copy. This is only publication by Abbott (1730 - 1776), a Church of England Clergyman, that I have been able to trace. The subscribers include Isaac Hawkins Browne, Dr. [Erasmus] Darwin, and Charles Jennens (patron of the arts and librettist), to whom the volume is dedicated. The preface, on the aesthetics of poetry, is given over to a responsible discussion of accents and metre, while the topics of the poems include "The Song of Deborah and Barak," hymns, tributes to marriage, an ode to good humour, translations, Moses, and reprints Addison's "On Liberty." ESTC T42671 locates copies in Birmingham, BL, Cambridge, Bodleian, Nottinghamshire County Library, and Leeds in the UK; Cornell, Folger, Harvard, and McMaster in North America.
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry literary criticism literature
Carmina Excerpta; or Gleanings from the writing of Richard of Raindale, the Moorish Bard.
Hull: Printed by J. Hutchinson, 30 Scale-Lane. 1833. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), pp. viii, 140 [141 - 148 subscribers], engraved frontispiece, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed and slightly soiled; base of spine defective, upper front joint cracked. The rhetorical formula of the Preface sounds familiar: "The following pieces are a part of what were written or conceived on the impulse of the moment, without any the most distant idea of publication.... The work might possibly have derived great advantage from a carerful revisal, and still more from the hand of a literty friend, but the Author prefers submitting it in its rude uncultivated state to the impartial critique of the public, convinced that there will not be found one couplet offensive to delicacy or morality." Well, that's reassuring. Jackson pl 572; Johnson, Provincial Poetry, 165. OCLC locates copies in BL, Hull, Leeds, Bodleian, York Minster; Stanford and UC, Davis in the USA. Uncommon
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 10603
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry provincial imprint literature
Poems on Several Occasions.
Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis..., 1770. 12mo (in 6s), 123 x 69 mms., pp. [iv], 199 [200 blank], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red leather label; upper and lower joints very slightly cracked, some rubbing of spine, but a very good copy. Gaskell 499,
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 9666
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry printing literature
The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside, M. D. Collated with the Best Editions: by Thomas Park.
London: Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham...For John Sharpe..., 1805. 2 volumes in 1. Small 8vo, pp. [iv], 171 [172 blank]; [iv], 140, engraved frontispiece (by P. W. Tompkins after Richard Westall) for each volume, 20th century binding in maroon library cloth.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 3302
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry literature
Le Rime di M. Lodovico Ariosto. non piu uiste, & nouvamente stampate a instantia di Jacopo Modanese , cioe Sonetti, Canzoni, Madrigali, Stanze, Capitoli
In Venegia [Venice] con Priuilegio del Sommo Pontefice & del Eccesso Senato Veneto. M D XL VI. [Colophon: Stampate in Vinegia ad instantia de Iacopo Modanese. Nel anno del Signore. M D LXVI. 1544. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo (in 4s), 153 x 84 mms., 56 leaves, with last leaf blank, woodcut image of Ariosto on title-page; followed by the dedicatory epistle from the publisher Catherina Barbaro to Ludovico Foscarini, dated Feb. 1546, and 75 leaves of text, six vignette woodcuts in texts, with publisher's woodcut ornament on verso of last leaf of text, bound in later contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments to an acorn motif, red leather label. A very good copy, with a ducal bookplate on front paste-down end-paper, note of contents in later hand on verso of front free end paper and a further note about the edition in a later hand on the second free end-paper. FIRST EDITION of the collected lyrical poems of Ariosto. The 75 leaves following Le Rime contain two separate texts, with title-pages inexplicably removed, Stanze, and the dedication as noted above. Ludovico Ariosto (1474 – 1533) is best know for satire on chivary, Orlando Furioso (1516). Ariosto wrote the Rime throughout his life, from 1493 to 1527. These too, however, were never systematically collected by the poet and were published in 1546, after his death, together with the lyrics in Latin. The Rime – which include five songs, forty-one sonnets, twelve madrigals, twenty-seven chapters[1] and two eclogues – were written largely for Alessandra Benucci, the woman loved by Ariosto. The love poems have affectionate and intimate, passionate and joking tones, the chapters refer to the poet's life; there are also compositions linked to episodes of contemporary history, such as the eclogue for the death of Giovani dalle Bande Nere[2] and the one dedicated to the conspiracy hatched by Giulio d'Este[3] against his brother Alfonso. Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries,; A-1685; Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum,; page 41; Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.),; volume 1, column 445 [from OCLC].
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 10568
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry Italian literature
The Economy of Love. A Poetical Essay.
Bristol [Printed at The Mercury Press], August 1813. 8vo, pp. xx, 43 [44 blank], including half-title, original boards, uncut; corner cut from blank leaf before half-title, spine defective with most of paper missing. Armstrong (1709 - 1779) published The Oeconomy of Love in 1736, and it was frequently reprinted thereafter, though he did not include it in his collected works. He revised and shortened the work for an edition published in 1768, in which he toned down some of the more lubricious passages. The text of the poem here is 617 lines long. The anonymous editor has supplied an introduction of some 15 pages, in which he makes much of the mention in the poem of Gaspar Tagliacozzi (1545 - 1599), who also has a place in Tristram Shandy, in a discourse about the surgical repair of noses.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 5611
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry sex literature Scottish Enlightenment
The Poetical Works of Dr. Armstrong. Collated with the Best Editions, By Thomas Park.
London, Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham...For John Sharpe..., 1807. Small 12mo, 126 x 77 mms., pp. [iv], [3] 4 - 162; [5] 6 - 164, engraved frontispiece in each volume by Cook after Stothardl, attractively bound in contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, red and olive morocco labels, an attractive and very good copy; front cover slightly scored.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 9932
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry binding literature
The Coming of Spring and Other Poems. Privately Printed 1910.
[Liverpool] Ramsay Robb 1910. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo, 165 x 125 mms., pp. [9], 10 - 71 [72 colophon], including half-title, photogravure portrait of author as frontispiece, original lime green cloth, blocked in gilt on front cover, reddish-brown dustwrapper (slightly tatty), with title and author on front cover; small tear to fore-margin of title-page neatly repaired, but a very good copy. Arnott (1870 - ?1910) was born in Glasgow but moved to London with his parents when he was about ten. He spent a year at the Royal College of Music under C.V. Stanford and Hubert Parry. Afterwards he studied under Frederick Corder. Graduated B. Mus. (1891) and D. Mus. (1901) at the University of Durham. Copac locates a copy at the BL, while OCLC locates several digital copies.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 8562
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry privately printed literature
Miscellaneous Poems. The Illustrious Friends; Address to Music and Poesy, &c. &c.
London: Printed for W. Miller..., 1794. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 245 x 190 mms., pp. xiv [xv Contents, xvi blank], 158, including list of subscribers, recently rebound in quarter calf, raised bands between gilt rules, morocco label, marbled boards; text washed but remains of large stain (approximately one quarter of each leaf, lower left-hand corner) persist to about page 66. With the contemporary autograph of the M. P., Edward Monckton, one of the subscribers, on the title-page. Monckton also subscribed to Leigh Hunt's Juvenilia (1803). Ashby is unknown to ODND, but he was a native of Bungay, and many of the subscribers are from East Anglia. The poems include "Reply to the Goitre," "The Captive Fly," "The Anniversary of Belinda's Birth-Day," and concludes with "Address to Music and Poesy." One poem, "Event in Scotland," seems curiously mis-named, as it is a rape narrative, in which a Youth, who "glows with wild desire" pursues the daughter of Acasto, a Scottish laird (apparently), who, in repelling him, throws herself off a precipice to her death. Whether this alludes to an actual "event" (hence the title) or is intended to be an allegory in the manner of the next poems, "Bride-Cake; An Allegorical Vision" is unclear. ESTC T39429 locates copies in BL, Cambridge, Bodleian; American Philosophical Society, Princeton, Minnesota, Yale. OCLC adds Indiana and National Library of Australia.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 6374
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry provincial literature
Darmayne and Other Poems.
London: Printed for the Author by Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, Ludgate Hill, E. C. 1872. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 185 x 124 mms., pp viii [9] 10 - 162, including half-title, publisher's original green cloth, blocked in gilt on front cover; corner cut from half-title, but a very good copy. Copies in UCLA, Yale, North Carolina, BL, Aberdeen. Waterloo, York (Toronto).
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 10190
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry women literature
The Carnival of Death. A Poem, In Two Cantos.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown..., 1822 FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [iv], 122 [123 - 124 adverts], original boards, uncut; binding slightly soiled, paper label on spine, top and base of spine chipped, ex-library with City of Nottingham Public Library bookplate on front paste-down end-paper and their stamp on verso of title-page. The newspaper editor and author of several books, Thomas Bailey (1784 - 1856) began his working life with his father, a silk hosier, then became a wine merchant, and turned his hand to politics and poetry. The present work was reviewed in The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral and philosophical Knowledge, commenting that Bailey had commenced his task "under many disadvantages. The imagination of his readers anticipates the brilliancy of his thoughts and descriptions, and expectation grows too sanguine for the efforts of genius to gratify. On occasions like these, every man becomes a poet; and from the beams that sparkle in the vision is of a glowing but bewildered fancy, the productions of the highest order of intellect are perused with something bordering on dissatisfaction. Hence, the negative awards of critical justice, to the poet who creates or annihilates worlds, deluges the earth with water, or lights kup the final conflagration, operate with all the influence which decided approbation can impart, on occasions which nothing momentous commends. Under so peculiar and inauspicious, the author who escapes censure may be said to merit praise." Now you know.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 10215
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry devil literature
The Universe. A Poem. Intended To restrain the Pride of Man. By Mr. Baker.
London: Printed for T. Worrall..., [no date] [1734]. 8vo, 187 x 117 mms., pp. 8, 40 [41 - 48 adverts], engraved frontispiece (detaching at upper margin); disbound; corners creased. Baker (1698 - 1774) will be remembered by collectors and scholars as the author of two books on the microscope, The Microscope Made Easy (1742) and Employment for the Microscope (1753). Later editions of this work put the word "Philosophical" before "Poem." The work was reprinted several times in the 18th century and in 1808, with notes by A. Crocker, with the reviewer in The Annual Review and History of Literature for 1809 commenting that "The versification of Mr. Baker is of the good old school, that of Dryden and Prior. Though somewhat negligent, it has in parts a force and freedom which followers of Pope have vainly endeavoured to unite with their more regular harmony." ODNB in its article on Baker refers an edition of 1727 as the first publication of the poem. ESTC does not list this edition. OCLC refers to a digital version " Printed for T. Morral sic]" published in 1727 and 19840508 locates three copies, Colordao at Denver, Michigan, and Princeton. These copies are also undated and lack the adverts. However,1727 as a conjectural date is probably wrong. See G. R. Potter's note on the dating of the work in Modern Philology (1932), 29, 3; 301 -321.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 8127
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry cosmology literature
Poems. A New Edition, Corrected, to which is added, An Epistle to William Wilberforce.
London: Printed for Joseph Jonson..., 1792. 8vo, 190 x 118 mms., iv, 152, contemporary tree calf, gilt rules on spine, black leather label; some slight wear to joints but a very good copy, with, in a contemporary hand "Doncaster" and "Rob. Price/1801" on the top margin of the title-page. Barbauld's fine poem addressed to William Wilberforce, "Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade" appears here for the first time.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 10292
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry women LITERATURE
Delle Poesi Meliche di Giuseppe Battista. Parte Prima [Quarta[. All'Ilustriss & Eccelentiss. Sig. Francesco Mario Caracciolo, Principe d'Auellino, gran Cancelliere, e Capitan generale della Cacualleria Napoletana nelo Stato di Milano. Quarta Impressione.
In Venetia, Presso Abbondio Menafogiio, Et Valentino Mortal. M.DC.LVI. 1666. 4 volumes i 1. 12mo, 132 x 70 mms., pp. [xxxii], 197 n[198 - 204 contents]; 150 [151 -154 contents]; [xvi, 161 [162 - 164 contents]; [xii], 308, with title-pages for parts 2, 3, and 4 dated 1665, fine engraved general frontispiece for the four parts, bound in contemporary vellum (somewhat soiled), ink title on spine. A very good copy. * The Itlalian poet Giuseppe Battista (1610 - 1665) is described as a marinist poet; and Wikipedia tells me that "marinism" is "Marinism (Italian: marinismo, or secentismo, "17th century") is the name now given to an ornate, witty style of poetry and verse drama written in imitation of Giambattista Marino (1569–1625), following in particular La Lira and L'Adone." His poetry is said to have enjoyed great popularity in its day, and there were several reprints of these particular volumes. His baroque, epigrammatic verse has clear overtones of deliberate novelty for novelty's sake.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 10202
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry baroque literature
[Poems] The Minstrel; Or, The Progress of Genius: with Other Poems, Many of which, including the translations, are now reprinted from the scarce copies, and are not to be found in any other edition. To which are prefixed Memoirs of the Life of the Author, by Alexander Chalmers, F. S. A.
London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1811. 12mo, 157 x 95 mms., pp. [ii], xxxiv, [6], 216, engraved portrait of Beattie (offsetting onto title-page), 3 other engraved plates. UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH: The Minstrel: In Two Books With Some Other Poems. By James Beattie, D. D. To which are now added, Miscellanies by James Hay Beattie. With an Account of his Life and Character. In Two Volumes. Volume II. London: Printed by J. McCreery...For J. Johnson..., 1807. 2 volumes. Contemporary half red sheepskin, grey boards, gilt spines (a bit rubbed). A good, but probably made-up set, with the armorial bookplate of W. D. Sneyd and his autograph and date - "William Debank Sneyd/ g. 21st 1817" - on the free end-papers of each volume. Chalmers' assertion that some of the works are printed from "scarce copies" is correct, especially in the case of Beattie's translation of Virgil. His son, James Hay Beattie (1768 - 1790) was cogently memorialized by his father in the account of his life that opens the second volume.
John Price Antiquarian Books Professional sellerBook no.: 9184
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Catalogue: Poetry
Keywords: poetry biography Scottish Enlightenment
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