Romantic Tales. Lewis. Volumes I II, III & IV. de M.G. Lewis - 1808

Green cloth binding with gilt title and decoration on the spine and front board.

Four volumes. Navy leather spine and corners, green cloth boards. Gilt all edges. Dimensions are for one volume. A magnificent and unique rebound set. Printed & published in Canada 1864
Bunyan is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress Some people wanted a simpler form of worship and independent congregations (from the Church of England) began to emerge. One Sunday, John Bunyan heard a sermon on the evil of breaking the Sabbath; Bunyan was playing a game of tip-cat on the Elstow village green when he heard a voice within asking "Wilt though leave thy sins and go to heaven? Or have thy sins and go to hell?" From that moment on Bunyan's life began to change. In 1653 he joined the newly formed Independent church that met in St John's Church, Bedford, south of the river, where he became friends with their pastor John Gifford.
John Bunyan (baptised 30 November 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the… Leer más

1811. Fine. 8 14 2. Tan calf full binding. Black title plates with gilt lettering, banding and floral design on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume.
A well-kept rare edition The History of England, From the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II, Vol. 5: Designed as a Continuation of Hume Tobias George Smollett (baptised 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), which influenced later novelists, including Charles Dickens. His novels were liberally altered by contemporary printers; an authoritative edition of each was edited by Dr O. M. Brack Jr and others. Smollett's first published work in 1746, was a poem about the Battle of Culloden entitled "The Tears of Scotland", but it was The Adventures of Roderick Random, a semi-autobiographical story of a' north Britain on the make' which made… Leer más

1804. Fine. 13 19 3.5. Full mottled tan calf. Green title plate with gilt lettering and greek key style banding on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume.
A nicely bound focus on 18th century English life.
Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer best known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). He printed almost 500 works in his life, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar. Richardson had been apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost her along with five sons, but remarried and had four daughters who reached adulthood, but no male heirs to continue the print shop. As it ran down, he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and immediately joined the admired writers of his day. Leading figures he knew included Samuel Johnson and Sarah… Leer más

Full tan calf with gilt banding, flower emblem and title on the spine. . First Edition
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765). Goldsmith's birth date and year are not known with certainty. According to the Library of Congress authority file, he told a biographer that he was born on 10 November 1728. The location of his birthplace is also uncertain. He was born either in the townland of Pallas, near Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland, where his father was the Anglican curate of the parish of Forgney, or at the residence of his maternal grandparents, at the Smith Hill House near Elphin in County Roscommon, where his grandfather… Leer más

Tan cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and front board. This is Number 38 of the issue.

Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

Tan leather binding with raised banding, red title plate and gilt title on the spine.
Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture. It is a philosophical definition of Greek aesthetics. The work contains numerous discussions about the connection between art, literature, and emotions, and Winckelmann often quotes the dictum about the "noble simplicity and quiet greatness" of Greek sculpture. He also describes the statue of Laocoon, which had a significant influence on the German playwright and critic of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717 - 1768) German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art, which would be a decisive influence on the rise of the neoclassical movement during the late 18th century Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717 - 1768) German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between… Leer más

Faded red leather spine and corners, Red brown marbled boards. Dimensions are for one volume.

Half tan calf. Tan marbled boards. Red title plate with Gilt lettering banding and star design on the spine.
"The Female Aegis. outlines for its young female readership the three areas in which "the influence of the female character is most important": 1) In contributing daily and hourly to the comfort of husbands, of parents, of brothers and sisters.in the intercourse of domestic life, under every vicissitude of sickness and health, of joy and affliction. 2) IN forming and improving the general manners, disposition, and conduct of the other sex, by society and example. 3) In modelling the human mind during the early stages of its growth, and fixing, while it is still ductile, its growing principle of action. The text advocates a kind of educational reform for young women, "drawing forth the reasoning power of girls into action" through their instruction in "geography, natural history, portions of general history, and popular facts in astronomy, and in other sciences" –