The Poetical Works.>>MINIATURE BOOK<<
by AKENSIDE, Mark
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: Jones & Company., 1825 xv, 223 printed pages. Portrait frontispiece and title page vignette (very slightly spotted). On engraved title: "University edition, 1823". Contemporary ink ownership inscription ("July 20. 1833. Louisa. The gift of her affectionate aunt Mary Shepherd"). All edges gilt. Sextodecimo, 59 x 89 mm. Contemporary straight-grained, burgundy morocco, raised bands and elaborate tooling to compartments in gilt, gilt titling, covers with scrolling fleurons in gilt, blind pointille and floral corner-piece borders. Original yellow endpapers, inner gilt dentelles. A very good copy, a little rubbed, contents clean. An attractively bound copy of the poet and physician Akenside's (1721-1770) works, first published in 1772, in small but perfectly legible type. His contemporarily popular poem Pleasures of the Imagination (pp. 2-120) "deeply influenced" Wordsworth and Coleridge; the Romantics were "particularly attracted by the emphasis Akenside placed on the imagination and his active engagement with aesthetic and epistemological theory" (ODNB). Bondy, 84. Spielmann, 230. Welsh, 77.. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5184
- Title
- The Poetical Works.>>MINIATURE BOOK
- Author
- AKENSIDE, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Jones & Company.
- Date Published
- 1825
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My book expertise came with four years as Chairman of London P.B.F.A. , many more years of exhibiting at monthly London Rare Book Fairs & owning my own bookshops continuously since 1984.
Every book here was valued by the person who first bought it and will be just as prized by the person who buys it now from my shopping website.
I am an accredited professional & a full member of the ABA, ILAB and the IOBA, "Setting the standard. The books you want...from booksellers you can trust".
You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
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- Morocco
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- Gilt
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- Raised Band(s)
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