Philips John 1676 (6 results)

Condition: Good. (Philips, John, 1676-1709); first edition, variant with rules on the title page 38mm. apart and page 5 numbered correctly; 12mo (17.5 cm. tall); 16 pp, general age toning but not fragile, light extraction roughness at spine and in self wrappers. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

First Edition. Pamplet [as originally issued]. Finely bound in marble boards with a paper label to the front panel. An uncommonly good example; scans and additional detail on request. ; 48 pages; Physical desc. : 48p. ; 8°. Subject: Cider - Poetry. Edges guillotined with minor loss to the page numbers and the title. In this edition, sig. A3 under "and oft". ESTC citation no. : T34527. Referenced by: Foxon, P241. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Pamplet [as originally issued]. Finely bound in marble boards with a paper label to the front panel. An uncommonly good example; scans and additional detail on request. ; 48 pages; Physical desc. : 48p. ; 8°. Subject: Cider - Poetry. Edges guillotined with minor loss to the page numbers and the title. In this edition, sig. A3 under "and oft". ESTC citation no. : T34527. Referenced by: Foxon, P241. 1 Kg.…

Full Calf. Condition: Fine. 12mo: xxx,42;72pp, with frontispiece portrait of the poet, frontispiece to the separately paginated Cyder, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary speckled calf, covers framed with double fillets in gilt, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt, recent red morocco lettering piece gilt, edges speckled red. A Fineindeed exceptionalcopy. Foxon, p. 570. Tenth Edition (but first under this title), collecting The Splendid Shilling; Blenheim, An Ode (in Latin and English), and, most importantly, CyderA Poem in Two Books (Fourth Edition, printed for J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1744). Many of Philips's poems, including his first, the Splendid Shilling (which The Tatler commended as "the finest Burlesque Poem in the British Language"), were composed in Miltonic blank verse. "Philips's greatest poem, the two-book georgic Cyder (1708), begun at Oxford, celebrates his native land (and in particular Herefordshire) with a combination of accurate knowledge of apples and cider making and a 'sketch of our National History.' The botanist Philip Miller told [Dr.] Johnson that 'there were many books written on the same subject in prose, which do not contain so much truth as that poem.' . . . Philips taught Pope, who drew on Cyder in Windsor Forest, how to use Paradise Lost for un-Miltonic purposes, and to suggest that paradise might still be found in England's green and pleasant land." (ODNB).…

Condition: Good. Frontispiece portrait by P. S. pictorial head- & tailpieces incl. hunting & naval scenes. TWO WORKS IN ONE VOLUME duodecimo tan roan spine gilt with green gilt spine label (rebacked/spine with library name & numerals) 144pp; titlepage to 2nd work +[2]pp contents +144pp. Three faded library stamps to blank recto of frontis and blank verso of title and to margin below Finis of 2nd part. Newer endpapers, marginal ink has damaged 2cm of fore-edge of original endpaper and also a repaired tear, some edge browning and a faint name to titlepage. In all a neat tight copy. 1 volume. Hardcover.…

(1687). Maße der Darstellungen: ca. 14 x 12,8 cm, im Passepartout, hinter Glas, in zwei weiß- und goldfarbenen Holzleisten (ca. 19,5 37,3 cm), (teils leicht gebräunt/Rahmen teils leicht berieben)---- Ansichten zeigen: Don Quixot releases the Gally-Slaves / Don Quixot's Inchantment; page 243 / Don Quixots Encounter with the Flock of Sheep (Page 60) / Don Quixot Arrested, and carried home in a Cage: page 255-261 / Aus dem Werk The History of the most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha von 1687, eine der ersten englischen Übersetzungen. Philips war ein Neffe John Miltons - 1025 Gramm.…