Borough Poem Twenty Four Letters by Crabbe Rev George (8 results)

Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint of the 1810 edition. Hardback. Light shelf wear otherwise very good indeed in lightly used dust wrapper with one short tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Fourth Edition. 2 vols: xlvi, [2], 179; 211 p. 17 cm. Half red leather with marbled paper boards. Gold trim on spines. Marbled text block edges. Corners bumped, some edge wear. Occasional stains to pages.

2 origi.Pappbände, 8°,179 / 211 Seiten. Third Edition. Name auf Vorsatz, Rücken stark berieben und bestossen, Einbände stark bestossen und angestaubt, Seiten durchgehend leicht stockfleckig sonst ordentlich.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Third Edition. 12mo, 2 volumes, 179pp., 211pp., plus advertisements in the second volume. A fresh, clean, lovely set in contemporary full mottled calf, with gilt borders, gilt details to spine, and brown and green morocco spine labels. Marbled endpapers. Some wear/rubbing to corners, else a very nice set, with bright pages; overall near fine. Uncommon in unrestored contemporary bindings.

Full Calf. Condition: Fine. First Edition of Crabbe's best known work, dedicated to the Duke of Rutland, a series of twenty-four verse letters, including Peter Grimes, the poem that Benjamin Britten used in 1945 as basis for his masterly opera. Demy 8vo (217 x 130mm): Xli,[1],344,[4]pp, including half title and four pages of advertisements listing 52 title available from Hatchard. Contemporary full tree calf, sympathetically rebacked with plain tan calf, spine in six compartments divided by double gilt rules, maroon leather lettering piece gilt. Armorial book plate to front paste-down of industrialist [Thomas] Starling Benson (1775-1858). Faintly visible contemporary signature to title page of Sophia Baillie (17711843), daughter of naval surgeon Thomas Denman. Bareham & Gatrell A15. An exceptional, tall copy, very clean (excepting advertisements at end) and bright. Hayward 196. Five further editions followed in six years. Written in heroic couplets, the poems are arranged as a series of 24 letters, covering various social strata, trades, and places, and detailing the lives of rural characters. The best known letter (XXII) is that of Peter Grimes, which inspired Britten's opera. "To talk about Crabbe is to talk about England," E. M. Forster declared in a radio broadcast in May 1941. It was hearing Forster's talk while living in California that gave Britten the idea for his first opera and inspired his return to England and Aldeburgh, the unnamed borough of Crabbe's poems. "There are marvellous passages in 'Peter Grimes', in which the fisherman, cast out by society on suspicion of murdering his boy apprentices, hides out in the foetid estuary of the Alde, companioned only by the melancholy and 'tuneless cry' of the marsh birds. Paddling through these backwaters, Grimes sees the ghosts of his brutal father and two 'thin pale' boys rising from the brackish depths calling out to him to join them, . . . It is a nice irony that when Britten and Peter Pears founded the Aldeburgh festival in 1948 they did so amid the kind of sniping and stuffy local resistance that Crabbe would have recognised." (The Spectator, 25 June 2022) Crabbe's literary influence and legacy initially spread far and wide. Jane Austen's Mansfield Park was heavily inspired by Crabbe's works, as was to a lesser extent Persuasion. So the later drowning of Crabbe's voice would have surprised his admirers, including Byron, who called him "nature's sternest painter, yet the best." It would also have shocked Forster, who praised Crabbe for "his tartness, his acid humour, his honesty, his feeling for certain English types and certain kinds of English scenery." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Full Calf. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First Edition. Full Calf. First Edition of Crabbe's best known work, dedicated to the Duke of Rutland, a series of twenty-four verse letters including Peter Grimes, the poem that Benjamin Britten used in 1945 as basis for his masterly opera. Written in heroic couplets, the poems are arranged as a series of 24 letters, covering various social strata, trades, and places, and detailing the lives of rural characters. Formerly owned by Oliver Sacks. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so, he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Lightly shaken, light staining, minimal shelfwear/bumping, uneven toning, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Full contemporary calf gilt titling stamped, double gilt rules to spine. Armorial book plate to front paste-down of William Lloyd? 8vo. xli, 344pp.

Three works, each two volumes bound in one, being fifth, third and second editions respectively. Small 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked in a plain tan calf, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the feet, each title page inscribed and dated by Emma Le Fanu. Occasional light wear to the extremities, otherwise very good. Emma Lucretia Le Fanu (née Dobbin), was the mother of the Irish Gothic author Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu. Her inscriptions on the first two works are dated 1st August, 1810, the day after she had married Thomas Le Fanu, an Irish clergyman.

8vo, pp. xlv, [3], 347, [1], [4] Hatchard ads listing 57 titles in print; original gray paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut; label rubbed and a little discolored, else generally good and sound.