Meditations and Contemplations, containing Meditations among the Tombs. Reflections on a Flower-Garden. A Descant upon Creation. Contemplations on the Night. Contemplations on the Starry Heavens. A Winter-piece.

Hervey, James

Published by Printed and published by Brightly and Childs, Bungay, 1816

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8vo, pp. vi, 325, [1] + frontispiece and 3 other plates. Contemporary marbled calf, spine divided by Greek key rolls gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt direct. A few minor spots, slight dampmarking to fore-edge of plates. Binding just a touch rubbed at extremities, spine lightly creased. Pencilled ownership inscription (dated 1917) to flyleaf. A nice copy of a scarce Bungay printing of the earliest writings of James Hervey (1714-1758), influential on Blake and the entire genre of Gothic literature. Worldcat locates only 3 copies in the UK (Cambridge, St Andrews, NLS), and four outside (UC Berkeley, Wesleyan, Lancaster Theological and Princeton Theological). It reprints a rather more common 1807 Bungay edition.

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Title
Meditations and Contemplations, containing Meditations among the Tombs. Reflections on a Flower-Garden. A Descant upon Creation. Contemplations on the Night. Contemplations on the Starry Heavens. A Winter-piece.
Author
Hervey, James
Publisher
Printed and published by Brightly and Childs, Bungay
Publication year
1816
Binding
Hardcover
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Established in 1957, McNaughtan's Bookshop is the oldest secondhand and antiquarian bookshop in Scotland. Situated near the top of Edinburgh's Leith Walk thoroughfare, we are within easy walking distance of Waverley Station and the central bus terminal.

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