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William Makepeace THACKERAY
The Works
Smith, Elder & Co | London 1869 | 14 x 22 cm | 24 volumes reliés
Reference : 74357
Edition originale collective. Les 22 premiers livres sont datés 1869, les deux derniers (Micellacenous essay) sont parus en 1886, il est fort rare de les trouver réunis. Illustration abondante en hors-texte (Environ 250 gravures) et in-texte (1500 bois) par l'auteur, Doyle, Walker, Du Maurier et divers. Les romans contiennent un frontispice et un titre gravé. Certains volumes sont encore non coupés. Cartonnage de l'éditeur en pleine percaline verte dorée. Dos lisse à caissons décorés. Plats frappés à froid d'une plaque décorative avec au centre le monogramme doré de WPT. Une micro coupure à la coiffe du tome 2 de The newcomes, 2 au tome de Burlesques, sinon coiffes affaissés mais superbe ensemble. Papier bien propre avec quelques rousseurs sur les pages de garde et les premiers feuillets. Conservation assez exceptionnelle. Ex libris aux armes du XIXe Baron de Bellet Détail de l'édition :VANITY FAIR vols. I-II; THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS vols. I-II; THE NEWCOMES vols. I-II; THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND; THE VIRGINIANS vols. I-II; THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP vols. I-II; THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK and THE YELLOWPLUSH PAPERS; THE MEMOIRS OF BARRY LYNDON and THE HISTORY OF SAMUEL TITMARSH AND THE GREAT HOGGARTY DIAMOND; THE IRISH SKETCH BOOK and NOTES OF A JOURNEY FROM CORNHILL TO GRAND CAIRO; THE BOOK OF SNOBS and SKETCHES AND TRAVELS IN LONDON; BURLESQUES; THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF MR. M.A. TITMARSH; BALLADS AND TALES; THE FOUR GEORGEES and THE ENGLISH HUMOURISTS; ROUNDABOUT PAPERS and THE SECOND FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON; DENNIS DUVAL and LOVEL THE WIDOWER; CATHERINE, LITTLE TRAVELS, and THE FITZBOODLE PAPERS; MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS, SKETCHES AND REVIEWS; and CONTRIBUTIONS TO "PUNCH. - Photographies et détails sur www.Edition-Originale.com -
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5 book(s) with the same title
Cymbeline. A Tragedy + Romeo and Juliet + Hamlet, Prince of Denmark + Othello, the Moor of Venice. [i.e. vol. 7 (of 8) of The works of Shakespear]. - [JENS BAGGESEN'S COPY]
[Dublin, Printed by and for Geo. Grierson, in Essex-Street, and for George Ewing, in Dames-Street, 1 8vo. Nice 19th century half calf with richly gilt spine. A bit of occasional brownspotting, but overall very nice. Half-title with three old owner's entries - that of Jens Baggesen (1802), another one dated 1860, and finally that of esteemed book collector Paul V. Rubow, statitng that this is Pope's edition. Another old owner's signature (Brammer) to title-page. 424, (48 - Index), (6 - table of editions of Shakespeare's Plays), (2 - advertisements) pp. - lacking the title-page for the volume, but with all half-titles for the separate plays present. Six large allegorical woodcut head-pieces, woodcut initials, and woodcut ornamentations.
Volume 7 - containing Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello - of the extremely rare first Irish edition of Shakespeare's works, which appeared in 8 volumes in all, the 8th being a supplementary volume by Dr. Sewell. This 7th volume is arguably the most sought-after of the volumes, as it includes not only Hamlet, but also Romeo and Juliet as well as Othello and will thus also have been saleable and collectable on its own. This copy of vol. 7 was bought by the great Danish Golden Age author Jens Baggesen (1764-1626) on his travel to London in 1802 and bears his inscription ""London, April 13th"" and signature to the front free end-paper. ""Jens Baggesen, in full Jens Immanuel Baggesen, leading Danish literary figure in the transitional period between Neoclassicism and Romanticism.In 1782 Baggesen went to Copenhagen to study theology. Three years later, at age 21, he had an unprecedented success in Denmark with his first collection of poems, Comiske fortællinger (1785"" ""Comical Tales""). Later, after his libretto to the first major Danish opera, Holger Danske (1789"" ""Ogier the Dane,"" music by Friedrich Kunzen), received adverse criticism (mainly because of its supposed lack of nationalism), Baggesen traveled through Germany, Switzerland, and France. The journey became the basis of his most important book, the imaginative prose work Labyrinten (1792-93"" ""The Labyrinth""), a ""sentimental journey"" reminiscent of the work of the 18th-century English novelist Laurence Sterne. Baggesen was variously a Germanophile, a great admirer of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an ardent supporter of the French Revolution, a disciple of Immanuel Kant, and a Romanticist and early admirer of Denmark's foremost Romantic poet, Adam Oehlenschläger. Later in life he vigorously opposed Romanticism, carrying on a seven-year feud with Oehlenschläger.A perennial traveler, attracted to existential harmony but always torn between material and spiritual values, Baggesen found himself at home everywhere and nowhere. His restless existence was tempered only by his sense of humour and absurdity. He has been called a European spirit who ""held a passport to the whole world except his own heart""."" (Encycl. Britt.). It was in December 1800 that Baggesen moved from Denmark and settled down in Paris. He was not happy and he was not healthy. In late March 1802, he went to London, where he wrote the famous line """"Dover! Shakespear! Oh Ocean! Oh Mountains! I am thrilled!"" (""Dover! Shakespear! O Hav! O Bjerge! Jeg er henrykt!"")- and it was here, on April 13th, that he acquired the present volume of Shakespeare's works, containing the greatest of the author's plays.The eight volumes of this first Irish edition of Shakespeare's works was published by George Grierson and George Ewing and constitutes a piracy reprint of Pope's 6-volume 4to edition of 1725, including also the Index of the Characters, Sentiments, Speeches and Descriptions, which is present here in volume 7. The edition is very scarce and only few libraries world-wide have a copy in their holdings.Not in Lowndes
The works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward Reynolds, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Norwich (...) with a collection of thirty sermons preached on several occasions. (Including:) Explication of the Hundred and Tenth Psalm (1677, fifth edition)... - [""THE BEST FOLIO EDITION""]
Savoy (London), Printed by Tho. Newcomb sold by Robert Boulter, 1679. Folio (370 x 245 mm). In contemporary full calf with six raised bands. Wear to extremities, corners bumped with loss of leather. Internally nice and clean. (18), 1123 pp. + frontispiece (lacking last 15 pp.).
Rare first edition of the second collected folio of Reynolds works, according to Lowndes: “The best folio edition”. Reynolds was highly regarded as a preacher. “Many prized his written sermons and religious treatises. Collections of his works were first published in 1658 and 1679, followed by a complete six-volume edition in 1826.” (Beeke & Pedersen, Meet the Puritans) Edward Reynolds, bishop of Norwich, was born in Southampton in 1599. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1618. He became a fellow in 1620, due to his ability in Greek, debate, and oratory. Later, he received a Master of Arts degree (1624) and a Doctor of Divinity degree (1648) from Cambridge. “Reynolds was chosen dean of Christ Church College (1648-51, 1659) and vice-chancellor of the university (1648-50). From 1657 to 1661, he served as vicar of St. Lawrence Jewry, so he was again heard in London. After Cromwell’s death in 1658, Reynolds became a leader of the Presbyterian clergy. He preached to Richard Cromwell’s Parliament several times in 1659 and 1660, counseling that radical political and doctrinal opinions be suppressed but that differences on secondary issues be tolerated. At the Restoration, he and Edmund Calamy were appointed chaplains to the king.” (Beeke & Pedersen, Meet the Puritans). Lowndes IV, p. 2077.
The Works of the Late Reverend Mr. Samuel Johnson, sometime Chaplain to the Right Honourable William Lord Russel.
London, John Darby, 1710. Folio. Contemp. full calf, blindtooled in Cambridge-style. Spine with 5 raised bands. Titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering. Binding rubbed. Wear to spine ends. A crack in leather at upper compartment. 5 first leaves with a small hole in right margin. XXVIII,488 pp. Internally clean.
First edition of his collected works. - ""Chaplain to Lord William Russell. The works of this well-known party writer, stigmatized by Dryden under the name of Ben -Jochanan, are now in little estimation.""(Lowndes Vol. III, p. 1217).
The Works of William Paley, D. D. In Five Volumes. With Notes and Illustrations by James Paxton. 5 vols.
London, Thomas Tegg, 1845. 8vo. Uniformly bound in five contemporary blue full calf bindings with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Edges of boards with gilt ornamentation. All edges marbled. With dedication from Money Wigram (1790 – 1873) - English shipbuilder and ship owner, and a director of the Bank of England - to Woolmore Wigram (1831 - 1907), Church of England clergyman and campanologist, to front free end-paper. Bindings with light wear and some scratches, internally fine and clean. XXIV, 428 pp. XIX, (1), 531 pp. VI, 442 pp. XIX, 441 pp. + 39 plates IV, 407 pp.
A nice set of Paley's collected works. William Paley (1743-1805) ”wrote several books on philosophy and Christianity, which proved extremely influential. (…) His most influential contribution to biological thought, however, was his book Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature, first published in 1802. In this book, Paley laid out a full exposition of natural theology, the belief that the nature of God could be understood by reference to His creation, the natural world. He introduced one of the most famous metaphors in the philosophy of science, the image of the watchmaker: . . . when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive. . . that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, e.g. that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day" that if the different parts had been differently shaped from what they are, or placed after any other manner or in any other order than that in which they are placed, either no motion at all would have been carried on in the machine, or none which would have answered the use that is now served by it. . . . the inference we think is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker -- that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer, who comprehended its construction and designed its use. Living organisms, Paley argued, are even more complicated than watches, ""in a degree which exceeds all computation."" How else to account for the often amazing adaptations of animals and plants? Only an intelligent Designer could have created them, just as only an intelligent watchmaker can make a watch: The marks of design are too strong to be got over. Design must have had a designer. That designer must have been a person. That person is GOD.” (University of California Museum of Paleontology)
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. 6 Vols. (out of 8)
London, Henry G. Bohn, 1854-56. 8vo. Bound in 6 contemporary full calf prize bindings with richly gilt spines (""Godolphin School / Midsummer / 1863.""). Gilt title- and tome labels. Gilt line borders to boards, edges of boards gilt. Spines faded. Slight wear to capitals and edges of boards. Boards of first and sixth vol. loose. Exlibris to inside of front boards. Internally clean.
A neat set of the complete works of Burke, lacking the two supplementary volumes (7: Speeches on the impeachment of Warren Hastings" 8: The speeches on the impeachment of Warren Hastings, to which is added a selection of Burke's epistolary correspondence).
