THE COMPLAINT: OR, NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY, BY THE LATE DR. YOUNG: TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND A PARAPHRASE ON PART OF THE BOOK OF JOB.
by YOUNG, Edward, 1683-1765 :
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : for C. Elliot & T. Kay; Ogilvie & Spears, etc. 1789. A pleasant eighteenth-century edition of Young's most celebrated work - the nine nights of poetic meditation originally published between 1742 and 1745. The much reprinted original source of "Procrastination is the thief of time", etc. - a work regarded by Boswell as "the grandest and richest poetry that human genius has ever produced". Post 12mo (178 x 103mm). x,290pp. Contemporary full calf, now neatly rebacked in morocco; red label; fresh endpapers; a few very minor marks and small creases, but a very good copy. Manuscript inscriptions trace the copy's ownership passing to Jane from Lucy Chalmers in 1810, and to Lucy Ellen Mayne from her mother in 1885.
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- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45462
- Title
- THE COMPLAINT: OR, NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY, BY THE LATE DR. YOUNG: TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND A PARAPHRASE ON PART OF THE BOOK OF JOB.
- Author
- YOUNG, Edward, 1683-1765 :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : for C. Elliot & T. Kay; Ogilvie & Spears, etc. 1789.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Poetry
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...