Search Results: poetry from John Price Antiquarian Books

Derby: Printed and Sold by John Drewry, for the Author. Aold also by Messrs. Rivington's, St. Paul's Church Yard, London. 1805. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 2s), 213 x 124 mms., pp. viii, 44, including list of subscribers, engraved frontispiece ("Drawn & Engraved by H. Moore"), last leaf appears to have been remounted, recent half calf, title in gilt on spine, marbled boards; lacks the second plate between pages 38 and 39, with a visible stub. Edwards dedicates his poem to the minister of All Saints Church, Derby, Charles Stead Hope, who subscribed for six copies. Uncommon: OCLC locates copies in BL and University of California, Davis only. Copac adds Nottingham.

London: Printed for A. Millar..., 1752. FIRST EDITION, second state. 4 volumes. 12mo, 161 x 97 mms., pp. [vi] vii - xii, 285 [286 blank]; [ii] iii - viii, 262 [263 adverts, 264 blank]; [ii] iii - ix blank], 323 [324 blank]; [ii] iii - vii [viii blank], 296, with the faulty text "the at Folly" changed to "at the Folly" in volume 3, page 191. contemporary calf, recent reback in later calf, red morocco label, new end-papers; some marginal worming in volume 1, several leaves throughout both volumes closely shaved without loss, but a reasonably good set of Fielding's last novel. Although the date on the title-page is 1752, the novel was published on 19 December 1751. Many of the comments focused on the fate of Amelia's "lovely Nose," which was "beat all to pieces," when a chariot overturned. Broken, ruined, or missing noses and their iconographic portrayal often associated the bearer or the nose, or the not-nose, with venereal disease. Fielding's… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by John Moir...; and sold by Stuart Cheyne..., 1809. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 192 x 109 mms., pp. 144, original boards, uncut; spine defective and binding slightly worn and soiled, but a good copy, with floor plans for a house drawn in pencil by a contemporary hand on the rear end-papers. This posthumous collection by the song writer and ecclesiastical history John Skinner (1721 - 1807) attracted the admiration of Robert Burns, who had met the author well before his death. ODNB notes, "Robert Burns greatly admired his work and the two corresponded, Skinner supplying material for The Scots Musical Museum. Burns praised 'The Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn'—it has been suggested that this song refers to an illicit whisky still, but such references all appear to date from after 1859—and 'Tullochgorum' which he declared 'the best Scotch song ever Scotland saw' (Walker, 149)...."

London: PrinTed for Edward and Charles Dilly. 1776. 4to, 271 x 210 mms., pp.[iv], 28, including title-page, engraved vignette on title-page, engraved tail-piece. BOUND WITH: KEATE (George): The Monument in Arcadia: A Dramatic Poem, In Two Acts. London: Printed for J. Dodsley..., 1783. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 271 x 210 mms., pp. [vi] vii - x [xi blank, xii "Persons of the Drama"], 43 [44 blank]. including half-title. BOUND WITH: GERRARD (John): Poems. London: Printed for the Author; And SOld by G. Kearsly..., 1769. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 271 x 210 mms., pp. [v] vi - xx, 112, including half-title and list of subscriber. 3 volumes in 1, bound in contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, gilt title on spine; front free end-paper detached at inner margin, but a very good copy. The Quaker poet John Scott (1730–1783) had a reasonably successful career as author, and this work led the Monthly Review to describe it as an "easy and melodious poem...[and] this elegant poem, "… Read More

York Dispatch Press, 1887. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION? 8vo, 220 x 147 mms.,, pp. 32, printed pink wrappers (soiled), with title cover reading "J. Anthony Emenheiser's Latest Poems"; front wrapper detached and with piece missing from upper corner J. Anthony Emenheiser, whoever he is/was, wishes to appear as a radical and writes on the verso of the title-page, "This work is especially dedicated to mothers and wives and sinful sons and husbands, and to young ladies and gentlemen who are conquered by intemperate habits. This work will be found valuable to such. A short collection of Radical Poems from the pen of J. Anthony Emenheiser." The longest poem is the title piece, "Anti-Destruction" (pp. 3-12), which is followed by "Drink God's Forest Brewed Liquor" (pp. 13-20), "From a Princely Birth to an Intemperate Grave" (pp. 21-28), and "A Flower from God's House" (pp. 29-32). Uncommon: the only copy that I know of is at the Bodleian.

London: Printed for J. Murray..., 1777. 4to, pp. 40, including half-title, engraved vignette (by Isaac Taylor) on frontispiece, recently rebound rather heavily in half calf, marbled boards, morocco label. Cartwright published three editions of this work in 1771, and, according to W. Zachs in his biography of John Murray, "two thousand copies of the poem were printed, making it one of Murray's better selling publications." Zachs, The First John Murray, no. 147.

London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], 45 [46 blank], engraved ornament of smiling face beneath vertically-lined semi-circle beneath bunches of leaves on title-page, disbound; title-page slightly soiled and frayed at inner margin and holding by one thread. ?Foxon B383.

London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 47 [48 adverts for ten books], engraved frontispiece, engraved oval vignette of Homer on title-page, two rules above imprint, 19th century boards; gutter between frontispiece and title-page a little stained, spine worn and slightly defective. Foxon B386.

London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 47 [48 adverts for ten books], engraved frontispiece, engraved oval vignette of Homer on title-page, two rules above imprint, 19th century boards; gutter between frontispiece and title-page a little stained, spine worn and slightly defective. Foxon B386.

London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1788. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 12mo, 167 x 101 mms., pp. [iv], 275 [276 blank]; [ii], 370 [271 Errata, 272 blank]; [ii], 294 [295 Errata, 296 blank], engraved portrait of author as frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary half calf, gilt spines, black leather labels; corners slightly worn, some other slight wear to extremities but a very good set. This posthumous work was edited and published by Glover's daughter, Mary, (by then Mrs. Halsey), to whom he left £8000. The work had to wait 32 years for a critical notice, which appeared in The Retrospective Review in 1820, which devoted over 30 pages to thw work: "The Athenaid was intended as a sequel to Leonidas , and embraces the remainder of the Persian war, from the death of Leonidas to the battle of Plateea. It was the work of the author's old age, and its defects are, in part, attributable to the circumstance of its not having received his finishing hand. In this latter performance,… Read More

London: John Murray..., 1822. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, 220 x 124 mms., pp. iv [5] 6 - 162 [163 blank, 164 colophon], contemporary straight-grained dark red morocco, with gilt panels within gilt border, gilt spine, all edges gilt; some wear to joints and corners; front cover detached, with the bookplate of Edward Chatterton Orpen, whose library sold at Sotheby's in 1903. The poet, historian, and one of the "Oriel Noetics," Milman (1791 - 1868) published this poem the year after he had been elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford. The Monthly Review in 1822, thought it fell below the very high standard of his previous poetic adventures and concluded that "It will afford matter of triumph to puny wits; who, we suppose, will console their own imbecility, by wholesale and unmitigated reprehension of the puerilities (as we have heard them called) of this confessedly imperfect production. To all who can appreciated Mr. Milman, it must be a matter of regret, mingled with much applause.… Read More

Venetiis Apud Gabrielem Iolitum de Ferrariis, MDL. 1550. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 161 x 95 mms., 84 leaves, with detailed woodcut initials at the beginning of each poem and errata on verso of last leaf, later quarter calf, marbled boards (rubbed), remnants of label on spine; top of spine chipped, front hinge cracked, but a good copy, with a Milan bookseller's ticket on the front paste-down end-paper as well as the Ex Libris of C. Lacy Hulbert-Powell. Born in Cremona, the Italian poet Benedetto Lamprido (1478 - 1539) moved to Rome towards the end of the 15th century and through the offices of the scholar Janus Lascaris (1445 - 1535) was appointed to a professorship of Greek at the College of the Greeks, newly founded by Pope Leo X. He never competed for a university post. Wikiepedia reports that "Aonio Paleario , having heard him explain to his pupils a harangue of Demosthenes, wrote to Bembo: 'He had the voice and the gesture of that prince of orators; he seemed full of his spirit.'"

London. [Printed by Crocker, Printer, Frome] Cadell, . Tall 8vo, 224 x 140 mms., pp. [viii] [7] 220 [221 advert, 222 blank], including half-title, engraved frontispiece, 2 other full-page engraved plates at pages 110 and 151, with tissue guards, original boards, uncut, paper label on spine, front joint cracked and tender, rear joint slightly cracked, spine slightly defective with missing paper and boards, and boards worn. The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review reviewed the first edition of 1808 appreciatively in 1810: "Bidcome Hill, whence this elegantly printed volume takes its name, is situated at the western extremity of Salisbury Plain.... Mr. Skurray has endeavoured in his principal poem to excite and interest all such feelings [of location and incidents]. The language is unequal, but often pleasing; the sentiments pure; with a strong tincture of the truest piety, and most ardent benevolence pervading the whole."

Buffalo [New York] Peter Paul & Brother, 1880. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 170 x 122 mms., pp. vi, [7] - 103 [104 blank], cover and spine blocked in gilt, all edges gilt; front joint snagged, top and base of spine worn, but a good copy, with the following authorial inscription on the recto of the leaf before the title-page, "Miss Sarah Hill, -- with the kind regards and best wishes of the author -- Mary J. MacColl. Dec. / 79." The inscription pre-dates the publication date, suggesting that the work was published late in 1879, or that this is an early issue of the author's only book. Mary Jemima MacColl (1847 - 1920) was the daughter of the Scottish-born poet Evan MacColl (1808-1898). There are probably other inscribed copies of this volume, which proved to be very popular, but the best-known one is that she presented to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote back thanking her, saying that the volume was "full of poetic beauty and deep feeling" (The Letters of Henry… Read More

London, Printed for T. Durham..., 1770. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo, 175 110 mms. pp. [iv], viii, 76, recent marbled wrappers. The Critical Review produced a review with a comment much shorter than the quoted text: "These Sketches are formed upon the mode of the New Bath Guide, and wrote in the hendecasyllable measure. The author informs us that they were attended only for the amusement of a friend, for which we very readily give him credit, and join with him in opinion where he says, 'That the only reputation I expect to acquire by this publication, is, that of a faithful historian; and yet I am afraid it will be lost in a few years. Some of the facts I relate will, perhaps, appear to our virtuous grand-daughters, so void of probability, that my whole correspondence runs a risk of being deemed fictitious....'" The Monthly Review was terse and trenchant: "In proportion as we applaud the very agreeable and entertaining Bath guide, we cannot but commiserate his… Read More

[?London] no printer, no publisher 1870. A poem printed on a single leaf, a broadside or possibly a proof (though without page number), but apparently a "one-off," measuring 253 x 128 mms., printed on one side only, and dated Dec. 9th, 1870. The poem is in five unequal stanzas, with the last line of each stanza printed in italics. It begins: "Boom, death smit lily pale/ Blood red;/Thy Stem is snapt, thy frail/ Fair leaves are shed...." The poetry of Dorothy [Dora] Greenwell (1821 - 1882) seems to have gone up in critical estimation since the days when her volumes could be found on the sixpenny shelves in Edinburgh's second-bookshops in the 1960s. She published her first volume of poems in 1858 and several others followed. I have not been able to find this poem in editions of work published after December 1870.

London, Printed for C. Taylor, No. 10, near Castle Street, Holborn 1787. 4to, 198 x 158, a nonce collection in two volumes of poems with an engraving for each, bound in contemporary straight grain green morocco, gilt rule on borders, red leather labels, with general title-page tipped to a stub in volume 1; front hinge volume 2 repaired with tape. With a contents leaf at end of volume for volume 2, and an preface for the two volumes in volume 2. 39 engraved plates in volume 1, and 57 in volume 2. As ESTC notes, "On the verso of the contents list: "Gentlemen may bind any numbers together to make a volume, and in any order they please", which indicates the variety and strangeness possible in any copy. Match to these records by date of titlepage and add copy notes as appropriate.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown..., 1822. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp.l [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… Read More

Liverpool: Printed and Sold by J. Sadler..., 1755. 8vo, 223 x 132 mms., pp. x, 11 - 96, uncut, recently recased in quarter calf, red morocco label, plain boards. A very good copy. This poem by Samuel Catherall (?1661 - 1723) was published in 1725, probably printed by Samuel Richardson. Little seems to be known about him, though he was probably a churchman of some sort. He published a sermon on the death of the Right Honourable the Lady Viscountess Dowager Cholmondeley in 1692 as well as a poem about the end of the world entitled, An Essay on the Conflagration in 1720. ESTC locates four copies: BL, Liverpool Central, Liverpool University, University of Otago Central Library; Copac adds several more UK libraries.

London: Printed for G. Pearch..., 1768, 1770. FIRST EDITION. 4 volumes. 8vo, 178 x 113 mms., pp. [iv], 323 [324 adverts];[iv], 320; [iv], 324 [325 - 328 index]; [iv], 323 [324 blank, 325 - 328 index], including half-title in each volume, engraved vignette on each title-page, and engraved head-piece for first poem in each volume, attractively bound in full contemporary polished calf, spines gilt in compartments to a lyre and urn motif, red and olive morocco labels, armorial bookplate of Edward Parker, Browsholme, Yorkshire on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume. Edward Parker (1730-1794) was Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland married Barbara Fleming in 1750, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Fleming of Rydal Hall, Westrnorland. Pearch's Collection is almost a piracy, at least in format and bookstyle, of Dodsley's very successful A Collection of Poems. By Several Hands, first published in 1748. The Monthly Review commented that the volumes were a "continuation of Mr.… Read More