Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign. Divided into Four Books [Epistolae Ho-Elianae - Captain George Moubray's Copy]

HOWELL, James

Verlag: T. G. [Thomas Guy], London, 1705

Beschreibung

12mo. Pp. [x], 1-510, [21] index. Frontis. engraving. Exquisitely re-bound without trims in limp vellum, fore edges angled, four flat cords exposed at pierced joints, red morocco spine label, gilt; original front free endpaper, new laid endpapers. Front endpaper and title page signed "G. Moubray," title page signed by his sister "A. A. Katon 1806," dedication page fully signed "Adeliza Arabella Katon 1806." Lower corner of the printed text block on p. 67 (of sheet E2) displaced with the type intact (please see the fifth photo). Though it appears to be a broken plate fragment, what was eventually to be called stereotyping was yet rare for book production. We presume the sheet was creased before the first impression then flattened for the second pass.Edges soiled, variable foxing and toning throughout. Binding Near Fine. In a contemporary pull-off case (perhaps from Moubray's sea chest) in mottled calf, blind tooled borders, without titles, hand-painted lining: edges rubbed, leather cracked along the spine. The Welsh historian and lexicographer's travel memoirs and essays, some of which were perhaps written in prison, and often done up as letters to add freshness and intimacy. Its success established the epistolary novel as an English literary genre, and was expanded to these four books ten years after the 1645 first edition.Publisher Guy, who later founded and richly endowed the London hospital, opened his bookshop in 1668 and did very well selling Dutch-printed bibles illegally. The 1673 fourth edition of the present work may have been the first to carry his imprint. Bibliographer William Harvey Vann (Vann: II-7) claimed in 1924 this was the rarest edition of the Letters, finding it only in the British Museum. OCLC locates none. Captain Moubray (1773-1846) entered the Royal Navy in 1789, serving mostly in the Mediterranean where he participated in numerous actions of the Napoleonic Wars. Promoted to Commander in 1812, he then served in the West Indies in protection of the Bahamas. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7652

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ Familiar Letters, ...

Verlag: T. G. [Thomas Guy], London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1705

Einband: Limp vellum in pull-off case

Illustrator: William Marshall; Frederick Hendrik Van Hove (frontispiece)

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Case Very Good

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: Seventh Edition.