THE DESERTED VILLAGE. Illustrated by The Etching Club.

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. THE ETCHING CLUB.

Verlag: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street. [1875], London, 1875

Beschreibung

Small 8vo. 6.75 x 5 inches. 42 pp. Bound in original green cloth, with black spine title; front board with gilt and black decorations enclosing gilt title block. Bevelled board edges. All edges gilt. A little wear to extremities, including head and tail of spine and slight loss at top corner of blank first free endpaper; otherwise a very good copy. Bookseller's label of James Gemmell, 15, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. Illustrated by 35 wood engravings in text protected by tissue guards, by artists named in list of illustrations and drawn on wood from the original etchings. Decorated by title page and endpiece vignettes. The Deserted Village, the poem on rural depopulation by the Anglo-Irish poet, novelist and playwright, Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74) was first published in 1770. The account of the place he calls Auburn may have been inspired by what he experienced during his Irish upbringing, while others have suggested the influence of Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire which was moved by the landowner to create Nuneham Park in 1761. The Etching Club was founded in London in 1838 by Charles West Cope (1811-90) as an artist's society which aimed to illustrate editions of well known authors. These etchings were first published in 1841, and with the text added by Sampson Low in 1855. The British Library dates this edition to 1875. POETRY WOODCUTS POETRY 18TH CENTURY 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED POETRY. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 27994

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Titel: THE DESERTED VILLAGE. Illustrated by The ...

Verlag: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street. [1875], London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1875