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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 398 pages. Musings on art, literature, religion and life. Ex-lib copy, but no exterior markings and only a small light stamp on title page and free endpapers - otherwise unmarked, tight and clean.
Published by J. M. Gutch, Bristol, 1826
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Bound in brown cloth with a rebacked spine. Previous owners faint inscription. With 2 engraved plates, and pencil marks within the text.
Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60112912: 1856. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos fané, Quelques rousseurs. 397 pages. Reliure d'éditeur verte. Dos insolé et frotté. Couverture se détachant. Pages de garde tachées. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
Published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1856
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Contemporary owner's initials on front endpaper. Dampstains to spine and endpapers. Hinges broken. Dust stains to top page edges. Some foxing.; x, 397, [1] pages. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Black decoration on spine and boards. Page dimensions: 206 x 140mm. Lengthy treatise of art criticism, a dialogue between Pictor and Sketcher. "Sketcher is a rambler, and may be allowed a rambling style." - page 190. "Sir Joshua Reynolds remarks, that in historical painting often exact texture should be omitted, and that there should be drapery, only not any particular material. This principle will equally hold good frequently in landscape: as in a landscape above common pretensions no particular season will be acknowledged, so will there be, for the heightening of the general effect, a sacrifice of detail and of actual resemblance to nature in tone and colour." - pages 85-86. John Eagles, born in Bristol in 1784, was a contributor to 'Blackwood's Magazine".
Published by Gutch and Martin, Bristol, 1832
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. 8vo, pp. 404. Bound in morocco backed boards, a very good copy. Goldsmiths 27545, Halkett and Laing, Vol. 1, 249. Following the rejection of electoral reform laws by the House of Lords in 1831, a large crowd assembled in Queen Square to protest the fact that only a small fraction of Bristol's population had the right to vote. Rioting ensued for the following three days, during which time a fiery mob of some 500 young men looted the house of the Bishop of Bristol, Mansion House, and other eminent private properties. Ultimately the Third Dragoon Guards were deployed to break the standoff, resulting in a handful of casualties and many more wounded. Eighty-one of the Bristol rioters were found guilty, seven of whom were sentenced to transportation. Of the twenty-six sentenced to death, fifteen were subsequently reprieved and sentenced to transportation to Australia.