Immortality: or, the consolation of human life. A monody
by [DENTON, Thomas]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1754. 20pp, [4]. With a half-title and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Disbound Inked numeral to head of dust-soiled half-title, else clean and crisp. The first edition of the first published work of Church of England clergyman Thomas Denton (bap. 1723, d. 1777), a devotional meditation on mutability and immortality written partly in Spenserian stanza. Thomas Parnell's popular Night-Piece on Death was likely an influence. Denton's poem went into a second edition the following year, and after its inclusion in publisher Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems became one of the more frequently reprinted imitations of Spenser. ESTC records copies at five locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, Hull, Manchester, and Oxford), and a further 14 worldwide. ESTC T3701.. First edition. Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ21301
- Title
- Immortality: or, the consolation of human life. A monody
- Author
- [DENTON, Thomas]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Printed for R. and J. Dodsley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1754
- Keywords
- Poetry, Verse
- Size
- Quarto
Terms of Sale
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
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- Quarto
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- First Edition
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