Description: ODES ON SEVERAL DESCRIPTIVE AND ALLEGORICAL SUBJECTS by WILLIAM COLLINS.Publisher: Payson & Clarke Ltd, New York, 1927. An English Replicas Reprint of the First Edition of 1747.Description: Blue speckled paper covers with beige paper spine. Dark blue design and printing on the cover and spine. Appears to be handmade paper with deckled edges and several uncut pages.Condition: Very good. Spine, top covers and edges suntoned and soiled. Top of spine chipped. (see photos) Light bookseller pencil notes on front and back endpapers. Pages are clean and tight. Pages: 52Size: 5.75" x 9"Odes on several descriptive and allegoric subject by William Collins The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. ... Google BooksWilliam Collins (1721 – 1759) was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. His lyrical odes mark a progression from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the imaginative ideal of the Romantic era. Wikipedia.Check out my other current book listings. I will combine shipping for the best rate.Ask if you have questions. No reserve. You bid, it sells!This book is from the estate of John Robert Gregg Jr. Born April 25, 1935 in Manhattan, N.Y. to John Robert Gregg, inventor of Gregg shorthand, and Janet Kinley Gregg, daughter of economist David Kinley, he worked briefly as an editor for the Sierra Club in San Francisco before moving to York, Maine in 1967, where he lived the rest of his life winter, spring and fall. He died in York in 2019. Summers he spent at his beloved cottage on the French River, Ontario.His extensive collected library was supplemented by inherited collections from a number of allied families who lived in both Chicago and Manhattan. Subjects include Canadian and Arctic exploration, Inuits, American Revolutionary War; Novels and poetry by William Shakespeare, Keats and Shelley, Marlowe, Bierce, Douglas, as well as plays etc. I purchased several hundred of his books at auction and will be listing them, probably until I die!
Price: 12 USD
Location: Stratham, New Hampshire
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Author: William Collins
Region: North America
Publisher: Payson & Clarke Ltd
Topic: Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Facsimile
Year Printed: 1927
