Romantic Tales. Lewis. Volumes I II, III & IV. by M.G. Lewis - 1808

Four volumes. Navy leather spine and corners, green cloth boards. Gilt all edges. Dimensions are for one volume. A magnificent and unique rebound set. Printed & published in Canada 1864
Bunyan is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress Some people wanted a simpler form of worship and independent congregations (from the Church of England) began to emerge. One Sunday, John Bunyan heard a sermon on the evil of breaking the Sabbath; Bunyan was playing a game of tip-cat on the Elstow village green when he heard a voice within asking "Wilt though leave thy sins and go to heaven? Or have thy sins and go to hell?" From that moment on Bunyan's life began to change. In 1653 he joined the newly formed Independent church that met in St John's Church, Bedford, south of the river, where he became friends with their pastor John Gifford.
John Bunyan (baptised 30 November 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the… Read More

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A new compendious French grammar.: For the use of schools. Particularly adapted to the genius of the English language. By the help of which, any English Learner, even of a moderate Capacity, may be enabled to Read, Write, and Speak French correctly and fluently, in a short time. To which is prefix'd A letter from the author to a friend in the country; shewing A Familiar Method of rendering this short Grammar universally useful to Scholars, with less Expence of Time and Trouble to Masters, than has hitherto been thought requisite. With the addition of polite and easy dialogues on several subjects. By J. B. Ozinde, Author of the Large Rational and Practical French Grammar Separately:
the person Ozinde, J. B represents an individual (alive, dead, undead, or fictional) associated with resources found in Bowdoin College Library.

1811. Fine. 8 14 2. Tan calf full binding. Black title plates with gilt lettering, banding and floral design on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume.
A well-kept rare edition The History of England, From the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II, Vol. 5: Designed as a Continuation of Hume Tobias George Smollett (baptised 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), which influenced later novelists, including Charles Dickens. His novels were liberally altered by contemporary printers; an authoritative edition of each was edited by Dr O. M. Brack Jr and others. Smollett's first published work in 1746, was a poem about the Battle of Culloden entitled "The Tears of Scotland", but it was The Adventures of Roderick Random, a semi-autobiographical story of a' north Britain on the make' which made… Read More

1804. Fine. 13 19 3.5. Full mottled tan calf. Green title plate with gilt lettering and greek key style banding on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume.
A nicely bound focus on 18th century English life.
Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer best known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). He printed almost 500 works in his life, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar. Richardson had been apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost her along with five sons, but remarried and had four daughters who reached adulthood, but no male heirs to continue the print shop. As it ran down, he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and immediately joined the admired writers of his day. Leading figures he knew included Samuel Johnson and Sarah… Read More

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Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765). Goldsmith's birth date and year are not known with certainty. According to the Library of Congress authority file, he told a biographer that he was born on 10 November 1728. The location of his birthplace is also uncertain. He was born either in the townland of Pallas, near Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland, where his father was the Anglican curate of the parish of Forgney, or at the residence of his maternal grandparents, at the Smith Hill House near Elphin in County Roscommon, where his grandfather… Read More

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Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture. It is a philosophical definition of Greek aesthetics. The work contains numerous discussions about the connection between art, literature, and emotions, and Winckelmann often quotes the dictum about the "noble simplicity and quiet greatness" of Greek sculpture. He also describes the statue of Laocoon, which had a significant influence on the German playwright and critic of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717 - 1768) German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art, which would be a decisive influence on the rise of the neoclassical movement during the late 18th century Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717 - 1768) German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between… Read More

Tan leather binding with brown title plate and gilt lettering on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume.
William Shenstone (18 November 1714 – 11 February 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes. Shenstone's works were first published by his friend Robert Dodsley (3 vols., 1764–1769). The second volume contains Dodsley's description of the Leasowes. The last, consisting of correspondence with Graves, Jago and others, appeared after Dodsley's death. Other letters of Shenstone's are included in Select Letters (ed. Thomas Hill 1778). The letters of Lady Luxborough (née Henrietta St John) to Shenstone were printed by T. Dodsley in 1775; much additional correspondence is preserved in the British Museum letters to Lady Luxborough (Add. MS. 28958), Dodsley's letters to Shenstone (Add. MS. 28959), and correspondence between Shenstone and Bishop Percy from 1757 to 1763 the last being of especial interest;… Read More

Red grained leather spine with gilt banding and title. Red cloth boards. A truly superb First Edition
Titus Groan is a novel by Mervyn Peake. It is the first novel in the Gormenghast series. Gormenghast is a fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure. Originally conceived as a single on-going novel, the series was ended by Peake's death and comprises three novels: Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959), and a novella, Boy in Darkness (1956), whose canonical status is debated. Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968; the book was later completed by Peake's widow Maeve Gilmore in the early 1970s. After it was discovered by their family, it was published in 2009. Although the first two instalments do not contain any overtly fantastical elements, Gormenghast is almost unanimously categorised as fantasy because of the atmosphere and pseudo-medieval… Read More

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"The Female Aegis. outlines for its young female readership the three areas in which "the influence of the female character is most important": 1) In contributing daily and hourly to the comfort of husbands, of parents, of brothers and sisters.in the intercourse of domestic life, under every vicissitude of sickness and health, of joy and affliction. 2) IN forming and improving the general manners, disposition, and conduct of the other sex, by society and example. 3) In modelling the human mind during the early stages of its growth, and fixing, while it is still ductile, its growing principle of action. The text advocates a kind of educational reform for young women, "drawing forth the reasoning power of girls into action" through their instruction in "geography, natural history, portions of general history, and popular facts in astronomy, and in other sciences" –