Rev John Logan (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. (Ref.L3 ) New Edition. 1805. Half dark green leather bound to marbled paper covered boards. Gilt spine titles to red spine overlay. Some rubbing/wear to head, heel and corners. Small white melt mark to leather at rear right edge. Red top edge. Tanned foredge. Brown corners at endpapers. Tanned page edges and thumbed throughout. Main title page has been replaced at some point is hand-written with ruler lines etc. Contemporary hand-writing from period.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1781, (vii), 118 pp; removed from bound volume, retaining rear cover and portion of spine; front board missing, pages trimmed; browning and light foxing to first and last pages; internally clean and sound; page 58 misnumbered 85; page 91 is a half-title, introducing a sections of hymns. Early in his career, Rev. John Logan (1748-1788) achieved success as a poet, and later as a playwright; his hymns and scriptural paraphrases being much admired at the time. However, he took to drinking, gave up his living, and moved to London. There he made his living as a hack writer for a few years before dying. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, two volumes, fifth edition, pp, xlviii, 425, viii, 427, 4pp of publisher's advertisements, rebound in gilt titled quarter calf, marbled fore-edges, some foxing.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO80012712: 1783. In-12. Relié plein cuir. Etat passable, 1er plat abîmé, Mors arrachés, Quelques rousseurs. 101 pages. Relié plein cuir marron. Tranches dorées. Pièces de titre noire. Roulettes et ornements dorés sur le dos. 1er plat de couverture détaché. Ouvrage en anglais. Epidermures. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 118; uncut and partially unopened; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, title printed direct on spine; spine with cracks, upper joint cracked, extremities rubbed, but generally good and sound, or better. John Logan (1748-1788) was a Scottish poet and preacher best known for his part in a controversy that arose posthumously over the authorship of a poem entitled "Ode to the Cuckoo." "In 1770 Logan edited and published a collection of poetry, including five poems written by Bruce, who was a college friend, and two poems on which the two collaborated. The volume as planned was slender. To increase its size, Logan inserted some poems of his own and some from other sources. In his preface he stated that these could easily be distinguished from Bruce's without attribution. When in 1781 Logan published a volume of what he claimed was his own work, he included what some later scholars-beginning in the early 1800s-claimed was Bruce's "Cuckoo." Several of Logan's sermons and lectures were also published, one of which was proved to have been written by another author" (Britannica).