Meredith Royston (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., 21 (3) pp., small neat closed tear to extreme top right-hand corner of title-page, some light occasional staining, some fore-edges untrimmed as usual, bound in later quarter morocco backed boards, slighty chipped at top of spine with some light rubbing. A generally VG copy of this rare work. The ESTC collation for this pamphlet does not call for a frontispiece, but some of the fifteen copies recorded to report a plate. The frontispiece would infact appear to be a reproduction of the 17th century engraved title-page for Taylor's Holy Living; the relevance of this image was no doubt not immediately obvious to early binders, and the plate was therefore discarded. A remarkable squabble over copyright, by the grandson of the bookseller Richard Royston , and the son of Royston's successor Luke Meredith. Earlier in the year the Richard Steele had published, through Jacob Tonson, a compilation called The Ladies Library; the text had been edited for Steele by Bishop Berkeley. "The work is a sort of mixed grill, improvingly arranged, of extracts from seventeenth-century divines, with large chunks from [Jeremy] Taylor, and predominantly from Holy Living. Royston Meredith, who was evidently Royston's, and co-heir with his sister Elizabeth Meredith, complained that he was being robbed of his literary property (other works originally published by Royston, besides those by Taylor, were rifled to fill The Ladies Library); he wrote to Steele and accused him of theft from 'two poor orphans who had very little else to subsist on.' The orphans were presumably himself and his sister. Later he threatened proceedings on account of his rights in Taylor's works. Steele retorted with his intention to do 'all the good offices I can to the reverend author's grandchild now in town.' Meredith beleived this to be, on Steele's part merely 'a blind excuse for his notorious plagiarisms.'" - Gathorne-Hardy and Williams, A Bibliography of the notorious plagiarisms; Gathorne-Hardy and Williams, A Bibliography of the Writings of Jeremy Taylor, p.36. For the exchange of letters between Meredith and Steele (for which there is no manuscript source), see The Correspondence of Richard Steele (edited by Blanchard), pages 97-100.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1714 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 23 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 23.

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8vo., pp. 21, [2] publisher's advertisements, [1]; with an engraved frontispiece (taken from Taylor's Holy Living and Holy Dying); a fine copy; disbound.First and only edition: a fulminating attack on The Ladies Library. Written by a Lady. Published by Mr. Steele (1714), now known to be a curious adaptation by Bishop Berkeley of Jeremy Taylor's devotional classics, The Rule and Exercise of Holy Living and Holy Dying, in 'large chunks', 'improvingly arranged' with 'extracts from seventeenth-century divines' (Gathorne-Hardy & Williams). The traditional attribution to Lady Wray, Taylor's granddaughter, is now to be dismissed. A contract between Steele and Tonson, acknowledging Berkeley as the author, survives in the Osborn Collection at Yale.Taking the title-page of The Ladies Library at face value, the 'highly injured' bookseller Royston Meredith, whose grandfather Richard Royston was Taylor's publisher, prints the angry correpondence with Steele which ensued. He rejects Tonson's claim that he paid the necessary copy-money to reprint Taylor's text and attacks Steele, 'so great a stickler for the Liberty, Rights, and Properties of the Subject', for being 'ignorant of the Right and Property every Bookseller hath to his Copies; which you well know to be the same, with that a Gentleman has to his Estate' (p. 5). The 'poor oppressed orphans' are evidently Meredith and his sister.'Sir, before you had collected so many and whole sections out of Bishop Taylor's Holy Living and Dying (which be pleased to take notice, is my copy) you would have acted very prudently, seriously to have perused that of Restitution [Chapter III, Section IV, in Holy Living], where you might have read these words, Better it is to go begging to Heaven, than to go to Hell, laden with the Spoils of Rapine and Injustice' (p. 6).Gathorne-Hardy & Williams, Jeremy Taylor, p. 36.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Mr. Steele Detected | Or The Poor And Oppressed Orphan's Letters To The Great And Arbitrary Mr. Steele (1714) | Royston Meredith | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2009 | Kessinger Publishing, LLC | EAN 9781120650672 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Mr. Steele Detected | Or The Poor And Oppressed Orphan's Letters To The Great And Arbitrary Mr. Steele (1714) | Royston Meredith | Buch | Englisch | 2010 | Kessinger Publishing, LLC | EAN 9781162170602 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.