Penelopes Web, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing. Tan boards with blue lettering. The boards are stained. The lettering is faded but legible. The fore edges of the boards are abraded. Possibly ex-library, although the evidence for that is slim (parts of letters rubber-stamped on the rear free endpaper).

Condition: New. Penelope's Web, published in 1991, was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writing of Hilda Doolittle. Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 500 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 730. . 2008. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 13th ed, w/ translation of mottoes ; 12° ; [8]-323, [12], [6] ; full leather, 5 raised bands, gold trim ; names excised from title page, 19th century repairs ; Subjects: Adulterers punished by primitive Christians - Anacharsis Corinthian drunkard - Araspus & Panthea - Antipathies - Aristippus - Augustus - Bacon flitch - bion - Burlesque authors - Calamities - Calumny - Cave of Trophonius - Chancery-court - Cherubims - Cleanliness - Vanity of clergymen - Stage Coach - Country gentlemen - Dreams - Drunkenness - Dryden - King Edgar - Egyptians plague of darkness - Eloquence of beggars - Epistolary poetry - Eternity - Faces every man should be pleased with his own - Family madness - Genealogy - Gyges & Aglaus - Hamadryads - Happiness of souls in Heaven - Secret history - Husbands rules for marrying them, by Widow Club - Japis' cure of Aeneas - Jests - Integrity - John a Nokes & John a Stiles - Julian Emperor - Justice the Spartans famous for it - Laughter indecent in any religious assembly - Bantam Ambassador Letters - Eternal life - Life of a lover - Mahometans & cleanliness - Messiah the Jews mistaken - Metaphors - Military education - Church music - Needlework - Isaac Newton's Infinite Space - No, a word of great use to women in love matters - Obscurity - Orators - Ovid - Penelope's Web - Person defined by Lock - Pagan philosophers exalting human nature - Pittacus - Pity - Plato's labour - Play houses improved by storms - Pythagoras - Quacks - Character of a rake - Revenge of a Spanish lady - Pretended discovery made by a Rosicrucian - St. Paul - Satyr - Most offensive scribblers - Seneca - Shalum the Chinese - Socrates - The spleen - Stars - Syncopists - Syracusian prince - Advantages of temper - Thales - How unchaste widows are punished in Torre in Devonshire - Frank Townley - Tully - Vice laborious as virtue -- Custom for widows in West Enborne, Berkshire - Vulcan's dogs - Vision of human misery - Work necessary for women - Xenophon - Queen Zemroude of the Persian Tales ; "illustrations of headpieces from the start of the dedication and text (A1 and B1) and two tailpieces (pp. 292 and 293) identify the offering as the final volume in the first Dublin edition published 'by and for George Grierson' in 1728, a 9th edition, extant as a 12mo, with subscription list in vol. 1, T126250. On A1 is Grierson's hdp of four putti flanking a fountain, with the left side corners both broken off (soon after 1727-28 the left center will be cut off to regularize that side); it also appears broken on a1 of vol. 1 and A1 of vol. 4 of Grierson's edition of The Spectator 1728. The tailpiece on p. 293, with two hairy-headed putti or boys holding an oval with a descending radiant dove is also on the title-page of vol. 1 of Grierson's 1728 edition of The Guardian, T166485. Most of this 12mo issue of The Spectator is shared (including the ornaments noted) with the 8-vol. octavo issue 'by and for' Grierson, called the 11th edition, with title-pages dated 1748 and indicating the presence of translated mottoes (T207854). While the 12mo set has all The Spectators in numerical order, the 8vo begins to selectively print numbers after no. 3 (until which point the editions share settings), leaving out nos. 4, 6, etc. and others up to nos. 199-200; then in Vol. 3 the 8vo prints all left out up to no. 200 and proceeds to print all issues in sequence. The 12mo and 8vo issues share the same settings in the prelims of all volumes and, apart from directional line differences (signatures), throughout the text and indices of vols. 4-8. The appended leaves with supplemental mottoes in English found in [this] 1754 reissue are in Grierson's 1748 reissue (at least the Kansas copy on ECCO) and appear in a 13th edition for Peter Wilson, 1748, 8 vols. 12mo, N24133. These few leaves appended to each volume were printed [by S. Powell] for Philip Crampton, both for separate sale and to supplement his 8-vol. 12th edition of 1737."--James Edward May; binding tight ; unique; VG. Book.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Penelope's Web should appeal to a wide spectrum of readers interested in twentieth-century modernism, women's writing, feminist criticism, post-structuralist theory, psychoanalysis, autobiography, and women's studies. Published in 1991, it was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writings of H. D., the pen-name for Hilda Doolittle (18861961), who has been known primarily as a poet. Her prose, more personal, experimental, and postmodern than her poetry, raises central questions about the relation of women writers to language, desire and history. She suppressed in her lifetime many of these texts because of their daring exploration of her bisexuality and their radical critique of the social order. H. D.'s prose writings contribute importantly to the many histories and theories of modernism that are redrawing boundaries to include the achievement of women writers. Penelope's Web, published in 1991, was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writing of Hilda Doolittle. H. D.'s reputation as a major modernist poet has grown dramatically; but she also deserves to be known for her innovative novels and essays. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Original etching and engraving combination on a verge type hand laid paper. 100% original and authentic. on paper. Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 31.5 x 49 cm. The image size is ca. 24.5 x 34.5 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 12.4 x 19.3 inch. The image size is ca. 9.6 x 13.6 inch.Plate: ' Penelope's Web.' (Plate is accompanied by text in French, English, German and Dutch under image.) Penelope, Queen of Ithaca, was the wife of Ulysses. In Homer's, Odyssey, she became the symbol of all domestic virtues, most notably, faithfulness. The long absence of her husband and reports of his possible death prompted many ambitious suitors to the palace at Ithaca. To buy time, Penelope promised to select one of them as her new husband and king as soon as she had finished weaving a shroud for her father-in-law. Every night she unraveled the work she had done during the day. This was the 'web of Penelope'. This attractive original old antique print / plate originates from: 'Tafereel, of Beschryving van den prachtigen Tempel der Zang-Godinnen.' (Translation from Dutch: Scene or description of the magnificent temple of singing godesses.), by Bernard Picart Le Romain and published by H. Chatelain in Amsterdam, 1733. This is the first edition of this beautiful work, which took three years to complete, is a highlight of 18th century Dutch book illustration. The work consists of 60 full-page folio size plates within different ornamental borders, illustrating the Metamorphoses by Ovidius. Artists and Engravers: The author and engraver of this work is Bernard Picart (1673-1733). He was a French painter and engraver. He received his art education from his father, Etienne (1632-1721), from Le Brun and Jouvenet at the Royal Academy. His talents developed rapidly: at the age of sixteen he gained honors at the Academy of Paris.He was born in Paris and died in Amsterdam. Other engravers worked on this work as well.Condition: Fine. General age related toning.Keywords: ANTIQUE MYTHOLOGY PRINT-PENELOPES WEB-OVID-PICARTPCOX-E1-14.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Penelope's Web should appeal to a wide spectrum of readers interested in twentieth-century modernism, women's writing, feminist criticism, post-structuralist theory, psychoanalysis, autobiography, and women's studies. Published in 1991, it was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writings of H. D., the pen-name for Hilda Doolittle (18861961), who has been known primarily as a poet. Her prose, more personal, experimental, and postmodern than her poetry, raises central questions about the relation of women writers to language, desire and history. She suppressed in her lifetime many of these texts because of their daring exploration of her bisexuality and their radical critique of the social order. H. D.'s prose writings contribute importantly to the many histories and theories of modernism that are redrawing boundaries to include the achievement of women writers. Penelope's Web, published in 1991, was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writing of Hilda Doolittle. H. D.'s reputation as a major modernist poet has grown dramatically; but she also deserves to be known for her innovative novels and essays. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.