Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019
ISBN 10: 0259953393 ISBN 13: 9780259953395
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Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 1331313082 ISBN 13: 9781331313083
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Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0666492018 ISBN 13: 9780666492012
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Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019
ISBN 10: 0365012890 ISBN 13: 9780365012894
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Anbieter: Antiquariaat Brinkman, since 1954 / ILAB, Amsterdam, Niederlande
London, for Longman et al., 1812. 4th ed. xv,311 pp. With frontispiece (portrait by Scriven after Romney). Calf binding with morocco title-piece and gilt edges, inner dentelles. (edges a bit worn; hinges rubbed and a bit splitting).
Verlag: John Murray; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1815
Anbieter: M RICHARDSON RARE BOOKS (PBFA Member), Ashby cum Fenby, NE Lincolnshire, LINCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Half-Leather. Zustand: Very Good. The Corsair is the Ninth Edition, 1815; Lara is the Fifth edition,1817; Psyche with Other Poems is Fifth Edition, published 1816; Sonnets (of Mary Tighe) are to the rear of Psyhe so presumably published the same year. They are all bound as one volume in half leather with marbled boards. Psyche contains the frontispiece of Mary Tighe which appeared in earlier editions and is dated 6. 1812 (as in June 1812.) by Longman & Co. Overall, the condition is very good however there are some flaws which are described below: the leather of the spine has a split running the length of it and the title lettering is rubbed, as is the decorative detail. There is fairly extensive rubbing at the extremities and wear to the leather corners. The boards have become detached but are present. There are no inscriptions although there is mild foxing to the prelims and toning to the page block edge. The opening few pages appear to be lightly water stained along the fore edge. Other than that the whole book appears well preserved internally, with bright pages throughout. The title page of Psyhe and the frontis opposite appears browned and lightly water stained. In all, despite these few flaws this is a very decent copy which would benefit from professional restoration or a rebind. The combination of Lord Byron's and Mary Tighe's works in one volume make the a rather unique find.
Verlag: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown, London, 1816
Anbieter: Talisman Books, Stockport, CHS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Half-Leather. Zustand: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Nice copy of this fifth edition in contemporary half calf, raised ribbed spine gilt tooled in six compartments, marbled boards.Slight rubbing to extremities and both boards, bump to spine with slight loss, slight spotting/foxing mainly to end papers, slight marks to ffep. No other marks or inscriptions.
Verlag: London: Longman, 1812
Anbieter: JIRI Books, Lisburn, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 4th Edition. Large post 8vo, Romney portrait frontispiece, xv, 311 pp. Old brown half-morocco, marbled boards, four wide raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges tinted. Near fine copy with exceptionally clean paper, armorial bookplate of R. Townley Parker 1858 on the front pastedown, signed on the head of the title 'Susan Hoghton'. Robert Townley Parker was the son of Lady de Hoghton.
Verlag: J. & A.Y. Humphreys, Philadelphia, 1812
Anbieter: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First American edition. First American edition. 12mo. 230 pp. Full polished calf, lettered and decorated in gilt and blind. Gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Portrait frontispiece. Corners and edges rubbed, foxing to preliminaries. Ownership inscription dated 1815 on title-page. One leaf (pp. 117-18) creased at corner. Hinges secure. Originally published in an edition of fifty copies in 1805, Tighe's poem was reprinted posthumously by Longmans following her death in 1810 and became quite popular, drawing admirers such as John Keats. It went through four London editions before this first American printing. Shaw & Shoemaker 26883.
Verlag: Longman & Co, 1812
Anbieter: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 4th edn. ~Early marbled leather, gilt decoration and black gilt label to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. 2 armorial bookplates. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: xv, 311pp. Fine frontis, portrait by Romney. Binding sound, text unmarked.
Anbieter: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, USA
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. 8vo, xv, 167 pp. With fore-edge painting. Straight-grained green morocco gilt. Considerably worn with old tape repair to backstrip, blue endpapers, all edges gilt. Bookplates of William Hartman Woodin and Anne Livesey. § Attractive fore-edge painting of a man launching a boat on a rural river, trees, hills and a bridge in the background. It ornaments a later London edition of Mary Tighe's retelling of the legend of Cupid and Psyche. Tighe was an Anglo-Irish poet (1772-1810) who died young of tuberculosis. Her work was praised by Thomas Moore, the author of Irish Melodies, and by John Keats, who praised her in his poem "To Some Ladies.".
Verlag: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown, 1812, 1812
Anbieter: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, Vereinigtes Königreich
4th edn. 8vo (9 x 5¾ ins). Contemporary full calf, raised ribbed spine gilt tooled in six compartments, boards with matching gilt and blind tooling, boards gilt tooled at edges and returns, marbled edges (lightly marked at head of spine and upper board - otherwise VG). Pp. [iv] + xv + [1] + 311 + [5] blank, illus with engraved frontispiece (previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-down and faint inscription in contemporary hand at top edge of front prelim).
Verlag: [Privately Printed] Printed for James Carpenter, Old Bond Street, by C. Whittingham, Union Buildings. 1805, 1805
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Sumptuously bound in contemp. green straight-grained morocco, boards blocked in blind & gilt, spine gilt in compartments, turn ins & edges gilt, pink silk doublures blocked in blind, orig. pink silk bookmark; corners & head & tail of spine v. sl. rubbed. Small neat ink presentation inscription on titlepage: 'To Susan Butticaz from her very affectionate M Tighe, Sep.r 1805'; blue ink signature of Harry Taylor (?) on leading f.e.p. verso. A beautiful & scarce copy of one of the most influential texts of the Romantic period, presented to a dear friend. Copac records copies at BL, Oxford, & Cambridge; OCLC adds Library of Congress. Written by Tighe between 1801 and 1803, this 1805 privately printed edition of 50 copies is her only work published during her lifetime. Mary Tighe, 1772-1810, was an Anglo-Irish poet and an important influence on many later writers of the Romantic period including, particularly, John Keats. Psyche, her interpretation of the Greco-Roman tale of Cupid and Psyche written in Spenserian stanzas, is her best known work. It was widely circulated in manuscript after this 1805 printing, and received extensive praise, prompting Thomas Moore to write the poem 'To Mrs. Henry Tighe on reading her "Psyche"'. Mrs Hemans and Leigh Hunt were also touched by the verses, and Hemans wrote two poems on Tighe after her death in 1810. Psyche did not appear in print again until a year after Tighe's death. The first publicly available edition was published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in 1811. Entitled Psyche, with other poems, the first printing was a grand quarto with wide margins and a sweet portrait frontispiece; an octavo edition appeared later the same year, with a fourth edition - and an American edition - following in 1812. The fifth edition produced in 1816 was the last of the nineteenth century. Tighe fell out of fashion for many years until scholars began to re-evaluate her works towards the end of the twentieth century, pointing to the significant role she played in the creation of the Romantic poetic canon. The production of this beautifully produced private printing was timely. Having been diagnosed with tuberculosis the previous year, Tighe was seriously ill by the winter of 1805, with her friend Thomas Moore writing to his mother on February 6th that 'Poor Mrs. Tighe has had a most dreadful attack of fever, and a very serious struggle for life'. It seems likely that Tighe, after her diagnosis, decided to have 50 copies of this work printed and bound as mementoes for her friends. Mary married her cousin Henry Tighe in October 1793 - a match that was not particularly supported by either her mother or his, who were sisters-in-law. The main issue with the pairing was that both had hoped to find partners with larger fortunes than their own, and also that Henry was almost obsessively in love with Mary who did not reciprocate such strong feelings. Still, Mary was close to Henry's mother Sarah and to his sisters Elizabeth and Caroline, and remained so for the rest of her life. Susan Catherine Butticaz, (b.1875?) - to whom this volume is presented - was the daughter of the Reverend Simeon Jacques Butticaz, a Swiss clergyman who taught French at Harrow when Henry Tighe was a student there. Sarah Tighe had moved her whole family from Ireland to Harrow while Henry was in school, and she informally adopted Susan Butticaz during this time. Susan lived with Sarah Tighe and family until her own marriage to Aaron Wall Davis in 1812. She is mentioned frequently in letters between Mary and her cousin Caroline, and though she is sometimes treated as something of a silly country cousin, there is clearly real affection between the women. Mary expressed deep concern for Susan when her brother Philip died in Calcutta in 1803, and often asked Caroline to pass on letters or little parcels. Susan was also an early admirer of Tighe's poetry; in a letter to Caroline from York in July 1796, Mary writes: 'You must not show the ve.