Various; Alexander Pope; Robert Blair; Thomas Gray; Oliver Goldsmith; Edward Young; Beilby Porteus
Pope&Apos;S Essay on Man. Balirs Grave; Grays Elegy; Goldsmith&Apos;S Hermit; Young&Apos;S Last Day; Paraphrase on Job; Porteus on Death; and Pleasures of Melancholy. With Notes Moral, Critical, and Explanatory.
Manchester, Samuel Johnson, 1843 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, first thus, edition of this 1843 pocket anthology collecting Pope"s Essay on Man and several moral‑philosophical poems, accompanied by with moral, critical, and explanatory notes. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding with blind stamping.An 1843, pocket-sized edition, moral anthology pairing Pope"s philosophical Essay on Man with elegiac and devotional poetry, each work annotated to guide the reader"s moral and literary understanding. First edition, thus.This volume features an engraved frontispiece illustration by Stephenson & Royston.The works in this anthololgy consist of: Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man", a philosophical didactic poetry originally from 1733–34. Robert Blair, "The Grave: Meditative elegy on mortality", Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Oliver Goldsmith's "The Hermit", Edward Young's "The Last Daym", "Paraphrase on Job", a scriptural poetic rendering (likely derived from Young or another 18th c. poet), Bishop Porteus's "On Death", devotional seventeen-century verse, and Thomas Warton's, "The Pleasures of Melancholy". All texts are accompanied by moral, critical, and explanatory notes. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. One or two faint handling marks and spots of damp staining to boards. Fading to spine and extremities. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, particularly the head and tail of spine, resulting in slight loss to head of spine with very slight cracking at the joints, and small chip and closed tear to tail of spine. Bookseller's label to front paste down. The odd slight handling mark to endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, if slightly age toned. One or two spots to fore edge. Offsetting from frontispiece to the title page. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Stephenson & Royston. Very Good Indeed .

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