HERVEY, James

The Beauties of Hervey: Or Descriptive, Picturesque and Instructive Passages, Selected from the Works of This Deservedly Admired Author, Viz. Meditations Amongst the Tombs--Reflections on a Flower Garden--Descant on the Creation--Contemplations on the Night--the Starry Heavens--a Winter Piece--the Most Important, Interesting, and Picturesque Passages from Theron and Aspasio--Letters and Sermons--Miscellanious Tracts-- Religious Education of Daughters--and--Remarks on Lord Bolingbroke's Letters. To Which Are Added, Memoirs of the Author's Life and Character; with an Elegiac Poem on His Death

Wilmington, DE, Peter Brynberg, 1797. New Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4" x 6-3/4") bound with the half-title page in original sheep leather with a gilt-lettered red morocco label; 226 [6] pages. Evans 32249. Paper darkened. One page torn with no loss; rear blank and endpaper partially present. Very Good Hervey, a popular and bombastic Divine, had an influence on William Blake who painted "Epitome of James Hervey's Meditations among the Tombs." Two of the works in this collection--MEDITATIONS AMONGST THE TOMBS and THERON AND ASPASIO--decisively influenced the imagery in Blake's well-known poem "The Tyger.

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Book number: 004958

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: William Blake 18th Century American Imprints William Blake

AN ASSOCIATION OF CLERGYMEN IN NEW-YORK

The Evangelical Guardian and Review

New York, J. Eastburn & Co. 1817-1818. First Edition. Hardcover. Two 5-1/2" x 9-1/4" volumes in original publisher's brown paper-backed gray boards with printed paper spine labels. Contains 24 issues, May 1817 - April 1819, apparently all published of this religious periodical. According to a statement at the end of the second volume, just before the index, the publisher states, "It is not yet determined whether this work shall be continued another year. The present publishers decline carrying it on, because of the irregularity and delinquency of many of the subscribers in making remittances of dues. Light, scattered foxing; edgewear with some paper lacking from the spine. Very Good .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 020903

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Religion, Americana, Theology, 19th Century Periodicals Americana Religion Theology 19th Century Periodicals