Norman Callan Ed (15 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Pp. [27]-62, 8vo, stapled card wrapper. With essays and commentary by the contributors. Very good copy; contents fine, overlapped wrapper edges lightly creased and toned and with a few tiny nicks, light uneven toning to upper wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo in blue clothboards with gold gilt on the spine. Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. Binding is tight and square. Minor pushing and bumps to the edges and corners of the clothboards.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Pp. [27]-62, 8vo, stapled card wrapper. With essays and commentary by the contributors. A very good, well-preserved copy; contents fine, overlapped wrapper edges lightly creased and age-toned.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Brodart mylar over DJ. Excellent Ex-Library. Text is clean, binding is strong. Small book in like new condition except for neat library markings.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Offered as reading copies only. These books have been exposed to damp at some time, & the lower corners of their boards are discoloured. There is a ripple to the outer edge of the page block of vol. II. Otherwise, the text pages are in very good condition, apart from some foxing to the edge.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. Contains previous owners bookplate. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. A lovely two volume set of 18th century poet Christopher Smart's works, in the original unclipped dust wrappers with a frontispiece. A lovely 2 volume set of the poetry of Christopher Smart, edited, with an introduction and critical comments by Norman Callan.The second impressions of the works, first published in 1949.In publisher's original blue cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Volume I includes a frontispiece.These works showcase the poetry of 18th century English poet Christopher Smart, a major contributor to two popular magazines, The Midwife and The Student. He was a friend to cultural icons such as Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding, and was widely known throughout London.Smart, a high church Anglican, was infamous for his pseudonymous midwife 'Mrs. Mary Midnight' and for widespread accounts of his years confined in a mental asylum by his father-in-law, due to Smart's supposed religious mania.Although his poetry is primarily religious, it includes themes such as theories on nature and his promotion of English nationalism. In publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, very smart. Light shelf wear to heads and tails of spines. Marks to front board of Volume II. Dust wrappers are smart. Light shelf wear to extremities, with subtly sunning to spines. Slight damp staining to spines. Small closed tear to head of spine of Volume I wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…