OF ANAGRAMS: A Monograph Treating of Their History from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; With an Introduction, Containing Numerous Specimens of Macaronic Poetry, Punning Mottoes, Rhopalic, Shaped, Equivocal, Lyon, and Echo Verses, Alliteration, Acrostics, Lipograms, Chronograms, Logograms, Palindromes, Bouts, Rimes
Language: English
Published by Hertford, London, 1862
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First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. An early study of anagrams and related forms of literary wordplay by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, later a prominent bibliographer, editor, and authority on indexing. Wheatley traces the history of the anagram from antiquity through the nineteenth century, preceded by an extensive survey of other verbal and typographical curiosities including macaronic poetry, punning mottoes, echo and shaped verse, alliteration, acrostics, lipograms, chronograms, logograms, palindromes, and bouts-rimés. The volume concludes with appendices and a substantial bibliography of works relating to anagrams. Printed for the author by Stephen Austin of Hertford. Small 8vo. vi, [2], 186pp. Title page printed in red and black. Contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. Good. Binding generally rubbed and scuffed, heavier at the extremities, with the upper hinge starting. Interior bright, clean, and fine.…
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- OF ANAGRAMS: A Monograph Treating of Their History from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; With an Introduction, Containing Numerous Specimens of Macaronic Poetry, Punning Mottoes, Rhopalic, Shaped, Equivocal, Lyon, and Echo Verses, Alliteration, Acrostics, Lipograms, Chronograms, Logograms, Palindromes, Bouts, Rimes
- Author
- Wheatley, H. B. [Wheatley, Henry Benjamin]
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- Hertford, London
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- 1862
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- First Edition.
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OUR SPECIALTY: Modern first editions - mainly American and English - many of the books being signed; poetry, poetry broadsides, and press books. We feature mainstream and genre fiction (e.g. contemporary literature, detective & science fiction), with emphasis on notable writers and literary prize-winners in both prose and poetry. ALL OUR FIRST EDITIONS ARE ALSO FIRST PRINTINGS unless noted otherwise. All dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers, but our book pictures are taken without them to minimize glare.…
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