Smart Christopher Broadbent (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xxi, 40 pp., tall 4to, quarter Linson vellum, Curwen patterned-paper sides, gilt spine title. No dustjacket. The two-color frontispiece line drawing is by Lynton Lamb. Printed by Will Carter at his Rampant Lions Press. Six hundred numbered copies were issued; this copy out of series. Good copy; contents clean and bright, small bump to head of spine, couple of small scuff marks on cover, cover corners and some edges a little rubbed. Carter 37.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Limited Edition. Decorative paper over boards, backed in gilt-stamped Japanese vellum; pink dust jacket printed in blue. Text and frontispiece printed in blue and black. Number 130 from an edition limited to 600 copies. Book is fine. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and dust-soiled; a little wrinkled along the edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 40. Original publishers parchment style spine over decorative papered boards, lettered gilt at the spine. Poetry. Bookplate of Max Reinhardt (1915 Ð 2002) British publisher at the Bodley Head. Among others he published Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Bernard Shaw and Graham Greene. Limited edition of 600 copies this being number two. Fine in very good dust jacket, with slight fading and slight nicking but no loss.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A limited edition printing of Christopher Smart's 'Song to David', issued by the Rampant Lions Press. This copy previously owned by Bloomsbury Group member, Roger Senhouse. Limited edition of 600 copies, of which this no. 132. From the Rampant Lion's Press.In the publisher's quarter paper vellum, with decorative paper covered boards.With the publisher's prospectus loosely inserted.'A Song to David', likely written during confinement for insanity in St. Luke's Hospital, is a 1763 poem by Christopher Smart. Although it received mixed reviews, it remained his most famous work until the discovery of Jubilate Agno, also written during this confinement.This limited edition edited by J. B. Broadbent, a literary critic.With an illustrated frontispiece. Previously owned by Roger Senhouse (1899-1970) an English publisher and translator and a peripheral member of the Bloomsbury Group. The private letters of writer and Bloomsbury Group memberLytton Stracheyreveal that Senhouse was his (last) lover, and with whom in the late "20s and early 1930s he had asado-masochisticsexual relationship. In the publisher's quarter paper vellum, with decorative paper covered boards.Externally, very smart, with slight yellowing to the paper vellum and rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Small ownership bookplate of one Richard Luckett to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with minor spotting to the endpapers. Very Good. book.

Vellum. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lynton Harold Lamb (illustrator). First edition. A lovely, first limited edition of this poem of ecstatic devotion, A Song to David is Christopher Smart"s lyrical masterpiece. In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum with patterned parchment boards.Complete with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This copy is a first, limited edition of this work, being copy number one hundred and twenty eight of six hundred copies.Illustrated with a blue and black frontispiece illustration by Lynton Lamb.This is a majestic 1763 poem by Christopher Smart, long misunderstood by contemporaries as the work of a "madman", this is a devotional masterpiece, likely composed during his confinement in London asylums, exalts King David before culminating in a fervent embrace of Christ. In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum with patterned parchment boards.Externally, lovely. The slightest rubbing to extremities. Spine slightly age toned. One or two slight handling marks to rear endpapers. Dust wrapper smart. Slightly faded to perimeters with offsetting. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in the off chip and closed tear. One or two slight handling marks to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.