Akenside Dr Mark (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 16mo, tree calf, edges worn, upper cover detached, 147pp. Sporadic foxing, paper occasionally browned. Signature on the free front endpaper of Samuel H. Walley (1805-1877), the distinguished Massachusetts businessman and politician. EVANS 26544.

, 368 pages, frontispiece portrait, contents at rear, volume 55 of the works of the English poets by Samuel Johnson First in this edition , small loss at head of spine, some wear to joints but boards held, a little gilt loss to title label, pages clean, book in good condition ,full tree calf, red leather title and author labels, gilt bands and gilt decorations in compartments on spine , small octavo 15 x 10 cm Hardback ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 4to, 11pp. A very good copy in recent half calf with marbled boards. The title is a bit browned, no markings or inscriptions.

Condition: Very Good. Portland: Thomas B. Wait, 1805. Slim octavo; contemporary black sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt spine; viii,84pp. Boards and leather rather rubbed with some brief loss of paper to upper cover, preliminaries quite foxed, else Near Very Good, internally Near Fine. Didactic poem first published in 1744, the year the author traveled to Leiden to earn a medical degree. This edition issued by Thomas Baker Wait, the publisher of Maine's first newspaper, the Falmouth Gazette (1785). SHAW & SHOEMAKER 7842.…

Soft cover. 8vo, 22cm, xi,136p., engraved title-page illustration, preliminaries dust worn, title page torn away along fore and bottom margin, (not effecting text), pp.134/135 torn along fore margin slightly effecting text, untrimmed, corners turned down, lacking half-title & wraps(?), spine roughly taped, internally very good (ds1). ~ An early edition of Akenside's didactic poem. First published in 1744, the work was completely rewritten by the poet in 1757. His design is given in the preface "There are certain powers in human nature which seem to hold a middle place between the organs of bodily sense and faculties of moral perception: They have been called by a very general name, The Powers of Imagination." Before publication the publisher, Dodsley, submitted the manuscript to Pope who assured him that this was "no everyday writer". Dr. Akenside was a prominent English physician and was appointed physician to the queen under the reign of George III.…