Excursion Poem by Mallet David (5 results)

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 88. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1728 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 88.

8vo, iv, (9)-80 pp., outer leaves somewhat foxed, the remainder less so, some marginal stains, old wrappers. First edition. In about 1720 Mallet entered Edinburgh University where he made friends with the poet James Thomson and other enthusiastic young writers whose earliest writings made their appearance in the Edinburgh miscellany, 1720. He was also befriended by the established poet Allan Ramsay. The excursion, Mallet's third book, is a blank verse poem of deistic nature description similar to Thomson's Summer, and A Poem to the Memory of Mr Congreve (1729), which has been wrongly attributed to Thomson. Aside from his poetry and plays, Mallet is remembered as a close friend of Pope, and as Bolingbroke's literary executor. Very uncommon. Foxon M50; CBEL II, 556.

8vo in fours, pp. iv, [9]-80; complete despite the curious pagination; a few light stains; in modern cloth. First and only edition: there was a 'second' edition dated 1731, but that is pretty certainly a reissue of these sheets, at a time when Mallet was in the news because of his successful play Eurydice. The poem was written soon after Mallet had returned from a short continental tour with his pupils, the sons of the Duke of Montrose. This is a meditative nature poem, in blank verse: Above, the Round of Ether without Cloud, Boundless Expansion, all unruffled shines. Beneath, the far-stretch'd Landschape, Hill and Dale; The Precipice abrupt; the distant Main; The nearer Forest in wide Circuit spread, Solemn Recess and still! whose mazy Walks Fair Truth and Wisdom love. (p. 14) Samuel Johnson in the Lives of the Poets did not fail to notice Mallet's debt to his close friend James Thomson: 'A desultory and capricious view of such scenes of nature as his fancy led him, or his knowledge enabled him, to describe. It is not devoid of poetical spirit. Many of the images are striking, and many of the paragraphs are elegant. The cast of diction seems to be copied from Thomson, whose Seasons were then in their full blossom of reputation. He has Thomson's beauties and his faults.' Foxon M50; Sale, Richardson, 63 (the book was printed by Richardson).

8vo, pp. iv, [9]-80; contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked, spine gilt, new morocco label. First edition of Mallet's first substantial work, published when he was in his early twenties. It was preceded by two four-page poems printed in Edinburgh in 1723 and 1725: a revised version of one of these, a ballad called William and Margaret, appears at the end here (pp. 75-80). Mallet was educated at Edinburgh University, where James Thomson was a fellow student. The two young men shared an interest in verse, and Mallet was much involved in the genesis of Thomson's Seasons. Johnson did not fail to notice the influence of Thomson, and characterizes the poem as follows: 'A desultory and capricious view of such scenes of nature as his fancy led him, or his knowledge enabled him, to describe. It is not devoid of poetical spirit. Many of the images are striking, and many of the paragraphs are elegant. The cast of diction seems to be copied from Thomson, whose Seasons were then in their full blossom of reputation. He has Thomson's beauties and his faults.' Provnenance: signature on front pastedown of W. Gough, dated 1729. Foxon M50; Sale, Richardson, 63 (the book is printed by Samuel Richardson).

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1728 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 87 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 87.