Search Results: night thoughts with a life by young edward

Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2010-06-24. paperback. Used: Good.

Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2010-06-24. paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback. New.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-01-17. Paperback. Used:Good.

New.

New.

London: Printed for R. Dodsley and G. Hawkins (vol 2), 1749. Full Leather. Fair. Stated eighth edition. Full leather. 199, 263 pp. Illustrated frontispiece. Two volumes in one, providing the eighth edition of this popular long poem ruminating on the death of various loved ones. By Edward Young, an English poet of the late 17th and early to mid 18th centuries. GOOD condition. Front cover and first endpaper DETACHED from the binding. Leather scuffed, with uneven darkening and fading, as well as minor soiling and staining. Leather split along the entire length of the hinges, with some loss and peeling along the lower edge. Ownership signature and armorial bookplate present. Minor staining to the text. General toning to the paper.

London : Printed for J. F. & C. Rivington, T. Longman, J. Dodsley, C. Dilly, T. Cadell, & W. Otridge MDCCXC [1790 ] .. A very good full leather binding. 12mo. 6.5" x 3.75" x 1.0". [2pp.]pp.19/[5pp.]/pp.383/[1p.] . With engraved frontis and illustrative title-page (both engraved by "Royce sc."). Memoirs of the late Dr. Edward Young' signed: G. W. (i.e., G. Wright). Clean English text throughout. Previous owner's signature to title-page and front endpaper: "J. Jones 1856." Brown full calf. Hinges and corners carefully strengthened. Smooth spine with gilt banding and red leather title label: "Young's Night Thoughts". VG. Referenced by ESTC T129158.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London. Printed for J.& F. Rivington et al. 1787. Hardcover. 12mo, 17.5cm, xi,347p., copper engraved frontis plate and engraved title page with vignette, glossary, index, contemporary full calf, gilt decorated spine, front cover detached and re glued, spine title label wanting, binding edges worn and lower spine chipped, a good copy internally clean and sound (ds1). ~ The best known work of English poet, Edward Young (1683 1765) first published in 1742. "If he did not invent melancolia and moonlight' in literature, he did much to spread the fashionable taste for them." (Ency. Britannia, 1911).

London: printed by C. Whittingham for T. Heptinstall, 1798. 8vo, pp. 22, [2], 364; engraved frontis portrait of the author and engraved vignette title, 7 (of 8) engraved plates after Thomas Stothard; full contemporary gilt calf (some soiling) recently rebacked, red gilt morocco spine label, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. The material for the Life of Young is taken from Johnson's Lives of the Poets, "written by Herbert Croft, with the critique of Dr. Johnson, and compared with the Biographia Britannica, and other respectable authorities." The first part of this now famous poem was published in 1742 and achieved immediate popularity, both at home and especially in Germany and France where Young was considered by some to be a more powerful poet than Milton. The poem was greatly admired by Diderot, Madame De Stael and Robespierre, the last of whom is said to have kept the book under his pillow during the Revolution. ESTC T43095.

London: T. Heptinstall. printed by C. Whittingham, 1798. Owner's ink stamp on preliminaries, a bit of wear but VG+. 364p. Engraved title page with central engraving after Stothard. Bound in quarter black morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, the spine with gilt title and decorated panels. An early Whittingham printing.

12mo, pp. [xiv], [ii], 300; with engraved frontispiece; apart from some light offsetting from the frontispiece, a clean crisp copy throughout; in contemporary sprinkled calf, spine ruled and tooled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, some minor rubbing, but overall a very desirable copy, with neat presentation inscription on front pastedown: 'Notting Hill House Boarding School. This book was presented to Miss Ann Pocock, at the Midsummer Vacation 1794. In Approbation of her uniform good conduct', with the later armorial bookplate of J. Hornsby Wright opposite.
Uncommon Minerva press edition of one of the most profound meditative poems of the century, and an often-unrecognised source of many quotations usually thought of as Shakespearean: 'Procrastination is the thief of time', 'Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep'.
^gProvenance:^g Notting Hill House, today called Aubrey House, was let to Mrs Catterine Tutty in 1791 where she established a boarding school. She had run a similar… Read More

London: printed by C. Whittingham for T. Heptinstall, 1798. 8vo, pp. 22, [2], 364; inserted engraved frontispiece of the author by Collyer; engraved vignette title and 8 engraved plates after Thomas Stothard (all spotted in the margins); slightly later quarter red straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, smooth spine paneled and lettered in gilt with gilt decorations, marbled edges; extremities rubbed, margins of plates a bit spotted, but a very good copy. The material for the Life of Young is taken from Johnson's Lives of the Poets, "written by Herbert Croft, with the critique of Dr. Johnson, and compared with the Biographia Britannica, and other respectable authorities." The first part of this now famous poem was published in 1742 and achieved immediate popularity, both at home and especially in Germany and France where Young was considered by some to be a more powerful poet than Milton. The poem was greatly admired by Diderot, Madame De Stael and Robespierre, the last of whom is said to have… Read More

London: R. Dodsley & M. Cooper / M. Cooper, 1742. Book. Very Good. Half Calf and Marbled Boards. First Edition. -1743. pp. (6)= blank, frontis, general title, blank, title, blank), ii, 30; 3-44; 3-34; 47, (1) Dodsley's A Proposal; 4-60; 39. (No half title to any of the Nights). Night the First is a 2nd edition (the first in quarto), the Second & Third & the v. scarce The Grave are first editions. whilst the fourth & the fifth are undated. The general title for Night-Thoughts dated 1743 is that for the Fifth (the first collected) edition. Illustrated capitals & decorative head & tail pieces throughout. Contemporary ownership signatures on recto of George Vertue's frontis. & (a John Hilyard's) at the head of Night the First dated in the year of publication & The Grave. The gutter edge of the title-page vignette was so heavily printed it "cut" the page & is repaired on its verso. Occasional water-stains at fore edge & in Hilyard's hand one… Read More