Sequel to an unfinished manuscript of Henry Kirke White's: Designed to Illustrate the contrast afforded by Christians and Infidels, at the close of life. By the author of "The Wonders of the Vegetable Kingdom Displayed".
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London: Printed for G. & W.B.Whittaker 1823, 1823. 12mo. 180x105mm. pp. xv, [3], 144, [121]-142. This eccentric pagination is noted in the errata. Original grey paper covered boards, original label to spine. Tear to head of spine, rubbing to joints and corners of boards. Internally very good, a few pencil underlinings and marginal annotations and some pages unopened and overall a nice copy of a rare work located by Worldcat in seven UK libraries and none in the US. Henry Kirke White had ambitions to enter the sacred ministry and spent a year studying with a priest in Lincolnshire before entering Cambridge. Southey said of him that never was there a "devouter christian" and that "of his fervent piety, his letters, his prayers, and his hymns, will afford ample and interesting proofs". As will this curious little collection of pen portraits of historical figures and their differing attitudes to death. Kirke White divides the world into "Infidels" and "Christians". An infidel such as Hobbes was terrified of death, lived to the age of ninety and wanted "to find a hole to creep out of the world at". By contrast the Christian Locke regarded life as "mere vanity" and "his death was truly pious, yet natural, easy, and unaffected". Plagued by ill health, it is unsurprising that Kirke White should have been so exercised by thoughts of how to die well.
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- Sequel to an unfinished manuscript of Henry Kirke White's: Designed to Illustrate the contrast afforded by Christians and Infidels, at the close of life. By the author of "The Wonders of the Vegetable Kingdom Displayed".
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- London: Printed for G. & W.B.Whittaker 1823
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- 1823
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Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.
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- Worldcat
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
