newton isaac david garrick rev (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Very good in 3/4 leather with heavy rubbing to the front and back paper covers and to leather, especially e upper corner of the front board. To say this is extremely rare is an understatement. The original binding is still firm. Brief foxing on only a few pages. Most pages are clean and bright and only 4 pages have creases. Owner's stamp to front pastedown plus 5 light almost ndecipherable handwritten letters toward top edge of front pastedown and the numbers 2473-278(?)1(?) scribbled at the bottom. Brief notes inked in at the bottom of two pages to accompany the entry on the same page. Entries arranged chronologically from January 9, 1792 through June 25, 1792. Noteworthy contributions: a poem, "Berry Castle: An Elegy" by Isaac Newton, poem "The Laplander" by Charlotte Smith (a famed novelist also who helped set the conventions of the Gothic novel) and excerpts from her novel "Celistina", "Some Account of the late Sir Joshua Reynolds, and a List of the Principal Persons who attended his Funeral", "Anecdote of Garrick in the Character of King Lear", "Curious Love Letter written by the late Rev. Mr John Wesley at the Age pf 81 to a Lady of 23", "A Summary of the Evidence produced, before the Committee of the Privy Council, and before the Committees of the House of Commons, relating to the Slave Trade", "Curious Dialogue between the late Right Hon. Lord Orrery and David Garrick, Esq.", among many other interesting pieces. 640 numbered pages plus 4 pages of index (the last page containing W through Z is missing). A 1792 reflection of multi-faceted Britain with brief excursions into other Euruopean and African countries).