Rochester Roscommon (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 779 pages. Title from typographical title page: "The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces Biographical and Critical by Robert Anderson. Volume Sixth." Bound in contemporary calf with some wear. Textblock is clean and tightly bound. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Volume the 10th of the 1st edition published in 1779 of The Works of the English Poets with prefaces, biographical and critical, by Samuel Johnson. Brown leather bound hard cover with minor wear to spine only. The pages start at 213 and finish at 452 and are clean and possibly unread. Roscommon's poems include Horace's Art of Poetry, An Essay on Translated Verse. Thomas Yalden's works include Ovid's Art of Love, The Rape of Theutilla. Earl of Rochester's works include Love and Life, A Song, A Dialogue. Published in 1779 this volume of poetry by Roscommon and Yalden, but not Rochester, is in very good condition.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bound in contemporary full leather binding with four raised bands to the spine. The title panel on the spine has been lost. The spine has light chipping at the top and light edge cracking. The corners are bumped with some light rubbing. Browning to the edges of the endpapers. This book belonged to the Wale family of Shelford near Cambridge and there is a bookplate to the front pastedown along with a name, Lady Wale to the the front free endpaper which also has 'Wale' and '1900' in pencil. Brown stain to the title page and the first page of the text. The pages are a little browned but otherwise generally unmarked. First printing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Half morocco, 7 inches tall. A neat and simple late Victorian binding with raised bands and gilt titles and top edge. No.1 in a series entitled 'Rochester Series of Reprints, limited to 100 copies, was printed privately owing to the erotic and bawdy nature of the verse. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester is considered the most learned among the Restoration wits and was censored throughout the Victorian period, appearing only occasionally in print in such privately printed works as this. …

Leather. Condition: Very Good. A charmingly bound and delightfully illustrated mid-18th century edition of this miscellany of the poetry of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon and Dorset. Two volumes in one, with a title page to each volume. Each volume is individually paginated. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates to volume I, and a frontispiece and folding plate to part II. Collated, complete. First published in 1707, this is a poetical miscellany that brings together the verse of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, and a number of other Restoration and early eighteenth-century writers. This edition includes the poem "Cabinet of love" which is often omitted in other editions. ESTC T94653 Rebacked, retaining original endpapers. Lacking pages 203-216 This became one of the principal eighteenth-century collections preserving the poetry of the Restoration court and its literary circle. Rebacked, in a panelled calf binding with gilt detailing. Externally, exceptional. Hinges reinforced. Internally, generally firmly bound, but lacking pages 203-216. Pages age toned, with handling marks and spotting throughout. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Leather. Condition: Good Only. The third edition of this scarce poetry collection of the Earls Rochester and Roscommon, both popular figures in the new court of Charles II. The third edition of this scarce work.ESTC citation number T95392.Collated, bound without the frontispiece.A selection of the poetical works of the 2nd Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, and the 4th Earl of Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon. Both men were popular poets of the Restoration court.Rochester much embodied the rakish lifestyle of the Restoration court, his poetry often being interlinked with his lifestyle. He died due to a venereal disease at the age of thirty-three. Rochester was considered to be one of the most learned of the Restoration wits, his satirical poetry being very popular, though later much censored during the Victorian era.Roscommon was known for being a didactic writer, and his influential blank verse. He was somewhat against the low code of morals of the court, believing that it was leading to a degradation of literature.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In a full calf binding. Externally, boards and spine are rubbed, with loss of leather to the rear board, some of the remaining leather lifting to the fore edge. Small cracks to the joints. Bumping to the spine and extremities, with some loss to the head and tail of the spine. Early handwritten private shelf label to the tail of the spine. Hinges are starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the paste downs, and to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with some spots. Faint tide mark to the fore edge of some pages. Prior owner's numerical ink to the title page. Good Only. None (illustrator). book.…

8vo, pp. [viii], 453, [3 (advertisements)]; slightly foxed at extremities, but a very good, crisp copy; bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt red morocco lettering-piece to spine, edges speckled red; rebacked, hinges worn.Fourth edition of the important 'Temple of Death' miscellany of Restoration poetry, comprising some one hundred poems, retaining most of the poems from the third edition of 1693 and adding much new material, including the first appearances of works by Roscommon and Rochester. The newly included material comprises all the poems on pp.172282 with contributions from Stepney, Arwaker, and Congreve and the poems at the end (pp. 391453), among them 'The Spleen' by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Also notable is the first printing of John Philips's remarkably popular Miltonic imitation The Splendid Shilling. ESTC T116471; Case 151e. Language: English.…