Search Results: poems by william cowper of the by william cowper

Edingurgh, Scotland: Thomas Nelson and Peter Brown / The University Press, 1831. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 3' x 5 1/4. GOOD / NO DUST JACKET. viii, 423 pp. Text clean and unmarked except for gift inscription at free front endpaper. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving of William Cowper, Esq. Brown leather boards with red compartment at spine lettered in gilt, with four raised bands decorated in gilt. Edges rubbed, corners worn to boards, joints starting to split at spine top and tail. Hinges cracked, but holding, interior binding intact and firm.

Whittingham, 1818. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket, as issued. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. POEMS BY THE LATE WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ, OF THE INNER TEMPLE published in 1818. Volumes I and II. Size 4 7/8" Free front endpaper bears former owner's inscription dated 1897, and gift inscription dated 1823. Half green calf over marbled boards. All edges marbled. Hinges are sound. Textblock is tight. Occasional light foxing. Corners rubbed and worn. Spine heads rubbed. Volume II back cover edge is dented. Small open tear at top corner in Volume II pages 13-16. No markings internally, just those on front endpapers. Overall condition very good.

Boston: Manning & Loring and E. Lincoln, 1802. Hardcover. Fair. Later printing. Volume one only. 16mo. Half-leather with marbled papercovered boards and marbled top edge. Fair only with owner stamp on the title page, three pages with some scribbling not affecting the text, missing the frontispiece, foxing throughout, and the leather of the spine has completely perished, though the binding remains tight and sound, and the hinges have been repaired.

Pages 430 pp.8vo. Full contemporary leather binding. New Edition. Vol. 1 of 2. Engravings. Rebacked in leather. Inner hinges reenforced, saving old marbled end papers.

Charles Ewer and Timothy, 1823. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Containing His Posthumous Poetry, and a sketch of his life. Three volumes, complete. Brown leather over boards. Edges and spines are rubbed and worn, some chipping. Spine on volume 2 is significantly more worn than the other two. Bookplate on pastedown of volume 2. Some pencil notations and age toning.

New York: David Huntington, Publisher, 1814. Full Leather. Good/No Jacket. Full calf leather. Approximately 4 by 3 inches. Two volumes bound as one. 268, 248 pages. With frontispiece illustrations and illustrated title pages at the front of each volume. A collection of shorter and longer poems by William Cowper, the noted 18th century English poet. GOOD+ condition. Moderate general fading to the covers. Some scuffing, heavy along the upper extremities. Minor bumping to the corners. Interior solid, with a few pencil ownership inscriptions. General browning to the paper. Scattered foxing, heaviest to the endpapers.

Jones and Company. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. London, 1823; leather bound boards with gold embossed decoration; raised bands on back strip; all edge gilt; marbled end papers; no dust jacket; edge worn; some bumping at corners of cover; rubbing on cover and along joints; shelf wear at edges of back strip; book plate on pastedown front endpaper; some foxing on interior pages; Interior clean and unmarked; 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall; 163 pages.

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Boston: Manning and Loring and E. Lincoln, 1802. Good. Octavo. Volume One only. Manning & Loring and E. Lincoln, Boston, 1802. Small Octavo. Brown full leather with gilt titles and spine decoration. Frontispiece portrait of author. Spine has slight cracks in leather. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square but final signature is slightly loosened. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: D. Huntington, 1816. Not Stated . Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. NY: D. Huntington, 1816. Not Stated . Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. A. Paul, Printer. Contains "posthumous poetry and a sketch of his life by his kinsman John Johnson, LL.D." Small volume, brown leather, spine with gilding. Spine is cracked and chipped , back board is detached, leather boards are rubbed , dry and pealed , Unmarked ,complete copy, w/ yellowing pgs.306 pp. Binding is square and tight. <br/> <br/>

NY. Fair with no dust jacket; Full-Leather; R. & W. A. Bartow; 1821. Full leather, fair. Joints cracked, heavy wear to boards and all extremities. Previous owners names & notes. Foxing thru out, rear free end page missing. Well worn copy. 204 pages. Volume One of Three only. ; 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall .

R. & W.A. Bartow, 1821. Hardcover. Good +. Bound in three-quarter leather with marbled boards and end-papers. Part of a three volume set, this is Volume II only. Spine leather is chipped; crown is lacking approx.1/8". Gilt title still bright. Corners are worn. Original (fragile) ribbon marker still in place. Rear hinge is cracked but holding. A dated (1822) short inscription on blank front end-paper, in copperplate script; a name at top edge of title page, also in copperplate (a delicate female hand). Scattered foxing throughout, more so to title page and end-papers. Still a wonderful copy. 231 pages. Protected in a mylar slip.

Weybridge Surrey: Johnson (hamilton), 1815. Spine cover missing. Front & back covers heavily rubbed. Some signature pulled unevenly. 480 pages. Binding is still holding. Gilt decorations on covers. . Leatherbound. Worn Condition.

London: J. Johnson By T. Bensley, 1800. New edition, 1800. Attractive two-volume set of Cowper's poems, illustrated with engravings. Full diced calf sympathetically rebacked in calf with dual spine labels in black and gilt, xvi, 430 + vi, [2], 420 pages. Extremities rubbed, some crackling along edges of original covers, some light chipping to spine ends and around the edges of the spine labels, vertical surface crack to the spine of volume II, joints/hinges good, text blocks sound, pages clean with some minor offsetting of the plates onto the text pages opposite, a bit of foxing to the margins of some plates, pages very clean and free from names or other markings. . Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Joseph Cushing,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1808. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 164, 130 pages; Contemporary calf leather. Tp 164pp, then half title page 130pp. Scattered light foxing. Sound . Bound in silk marker ribbons. Provenance- Estate of William Nixon III. Owner's signature of William O Lincoln. POEMS, BY WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. OF THE INNER TEMPLE, IN THREE VOLUMES, COMPRISING A VARIETY OF PIECES NOT INSERTED IN FORMER EDITIONS, TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE. [this is VOLs I and III only] .