Odes Subjects: First Edition (7 results)
Published by Noel Douglas [1926], London 1926
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerVG with light browning to cover edges, minor rubbing to spinal ends and corner tips, fore edges have a few spots. ; 8vo, original blind-stamped ivory boards, 52pp. , uncut, unopened, head and tailpieces. Limited edition facsimile of the rare first edition from 1747.
More imagesPublished by R. Dodsley, London 1745
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.Pazzo Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. First Edition. Later cloth backed marbled boards, endpapers refreshed, slight toning to page edges, scattered very minor foxing, otherwise a fine, bright copy; with the half title bound in. Morocco bookplate of John Drinkwater with some offsetting to endpaper. 54pp Size: Quarto (4to). Q…uantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 046591.
Published by R. And J. Dodsley and M. Cooper 1745
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus)
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Quarto, later three quarter calf gilt, small hole in half title, else very fine and with partially uncut lower edges.
Published by R. And J. Dodsley and M. Cooper 1745
- First Edition
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus)
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No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Quarto, disbound, old linen spine splitting, light foxing or age tanning, complete with half title.
Published by R. Dodsley, London 1746
- First Edition
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB)
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Small 4to, 47pp; modern cloth. Includes Warton's "Advertisement," with its declaration of commitment to "Invention and Imagination" in poetry, described by Hayward as a key forerunner of the Romantic movement. Hayward 169. Old mend to a tear on the last leaf, with a paper overlay applied to the blank verso; cloth…covers heavily darkened, as if burned, at edges, though internally the pages remain largely clean an undamaged, save for a few that show some smoky soil toward edges.
Published by London: printed for J. Walthoe over-against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill; and J. Peele at Locke's Head in Pater-noster Row 1724
- First Edition
Seller: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, United KingdomChristopher Edwards ABA ILAB
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8vo, pp. lxiv, 255; a good copy in contemporary panelled calf (very slight wear to the tips of the spine). First edition: the author's principal collection of verse. Leonard Welsted (1688-1747) was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he never acquired a degree. He began to publish verse when he w…as in his early twenties, and after some vacillation allied himself with the Whigs, becoming a kind of secretary or assistant to Richard Steele; he later held a minor government post, and supplemented his salary by literary patronage. Welsted is now chiefly remembered for his quarrels with Pope, which were carried on with virulence on both sides. A Grub-Street contemporary, Bezaleel Morrice, characterized Welsted's poetry, with some justification, as 'modish', but there is evidence that his works were read with interest by superior writers such as James Thomson and Oliver Goldsmith. Of particular note in this volume is the long critical essay with which the book begins, discussing such topics as taste, wit, genius, and the rules of poetry; included are comments on Dryden, Milton, Settle, and Cowley. Included in this essay is a passing hit at Pope, for a line in his Essay on Criticism ('And what now Chaucer is, shall Dryden be'): 'But whoever this writer is, he certainly judg'd the matter wrong'. This is in fact a slight misquotation, as Pope had written 'And such as Chaucer is'. Pope, who was notoriously quick to be irked, did not fail to respond. Also included in this volume are pastorals, occasional poems, translations from Horace, Ovid, and Tibullus, a few prologues and epilogues, and a rather charming poem called 'Apple-Pye', which Welsted later said was his first attempt at verse. Foxon p. 677; Guerinot, Pamphlet Attacks on Pope, pp. 88-90. Provenance. Early armorial bookplate on the verso of the title-page of John Orlebar (1697-1765), of the Middle Temple, who was MP for Bedford 1727-34.
More imagesPublished by Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-mall; and sold By M. Cooper in Pater-noster-Row, London 1746
- First Edition
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket, As Issued. First Edition, First Printing. THE BOOK THAT FIRED THE FIRST SHOT IN THE ROMANTIC REVOLUTION. Published in 1746, Joseph Warton's Odes represents a seismic shift in English literature, boldly declaring that 'Invention and Imagination' should once again be the… soul of poetry. This first edition-published by the legendary Robert Dodsley-is a work of art that captures the exact moment the Enlightenment's rigid rationality began to give way to the sublime, emotive power of the Romantic era. KEY FEATURES +++ Literary Priority: True 1746 First Edition, First Printing. +++ The Manifesto: Includes Warton's famous 'Advertisement,' a foundational text that challenged the dominance of Alexander Pope and prefigured the work of Wordsworth and Coleridge. +++ Fine Binding: Handsomely bound in modern green half-calf over marbled boards; spine intricately stamped in gilt with a morocco lettering piece. +++ Imprint: London: Printed for R. Dodsley; sold by M. Cooper, 1746. +++ Ref: ESTC T39320; Hayward 169. +++ Specs: 4to; 10.25 inches tall; [iv], 5-47 [1] pages. CONDITION: Very Good -- The bindings are tight and square; an attractive, shelf-ready volume. The text is clean with light, even toning consistent with 18th-century paper. The spine and portions of the binding are subtly darkened; the title page shows mild toning. A crisp, wide-margined copy featuring the binder's collation in pencil on the final blank. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- Joseph Warton was the 'Academic Rebel' of the 18th century. Bored by the strict, mechanical couplets of the Augustan age, he used these Odes to champion solitude, nature, and the 'sublime'-concepts that would later become the hallmarks of the Romantic movement. To hold this 1746 printing is to hold the blueprint for the next century of English poetry. While Warton may have famously failed as a schoolteacher (resigning after his third student mutiny), his rebellion against the poetic status quo was a massive success. This Dodsley printing is a cornerstone for any serious collection of English verse, representing the bridge between the age of Reason and the age of Feeling. SUBJECTS: 18th Century Poetry, Romanticism Precursors, Robert Dodsley, English Literature, The Sublime, Poetry, Fine Binding.
