This is the first scholarly edition of Johnson's letters to appear for forty years. It presents new letters, more accurate texts, and more up-to-date annotation than its predecessors. Fifty-two previously unknown letters or parts of letters have come to light since R. W. Chapman's edition (Oxford, 1952). Such 'new' letters, however, are scarcely more important than those for which only inferior printed texts or copies of varying reliability have previously been available. This edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents - a statistic of special importance in the case of Johnson's revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have only been known in expurgated form. For the first time, substantive deletions are recorded, yielding intimate knowledge of Johnson's stylistic procedures, mental habits, and chains of association. Furthermore, detailed ownership credits document the current disposition of the manuscripts, hundreds of which have changed hands during the last four decades. Finally, the annotation of the letters incorporates the many significant discoveries of post-war Johnsonian scholarship, as well as decoding references that had resisted explanation before. The result is a more accurate and more comprehensive understanding of Samuel Johnson, man of letters.

The Letters of Samuel Johnson: Volume I: 1731-1772 (Letters of Samuel Johnson The)

Redford, Bruce (edit)

Biographies & Memoirs

Clarendon

The Jacobean and Caroline Stage : (Volume 1) [Hardcover]

BENTLEY

Shakespeare and the new bibliography

Wilson, F. P.

Literature & Fiction

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, known as the Hyde Edition, is the most complete scholarly edition of Johnsons's letters ever to appear. In editing these five volumes, Bruce Redford has included fifty-two newly discovered letters or parts of letters, and he has supplied more accurate versions of many others. Redford also has decoded numerous references that previously had resisted explanation, and his annotations integrate the vital discoveries of recent scholarship. The overall result is a far richer understanding of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and milieu. The Hyde Edition offers major professional advances over all previous publication of these materials. It transcribes scores of texts from the original documents for the first time - a feature of special importance in the case of Johnson's revealing letters to Hester Thrale, a number of which have been available only in expurgated form. It is the first edition systematically to record substantive deletions in a way that will allow readers a more intimate knowledge of stylistic procedures, mental habits, and chains of association. The Hyde Edition also documents the current disposition of the manuscripts, hundreds of which have changed hands in recent decades. Volume IV chronicles the last three years of Johnson's life, a period of protracted struggle against a variety of ailments and of heroic commitment to preserving a sound mind in a radically unsound body. This epistolary endgame includes the breakup of the friendship with Hester Thrale, medical dramas of every description, and a poignant reaching out to new friends and new experiences. The letters of 1782-84 exemplify in abundance what Johnson himself praises and provides, 'the interchange of that social officiousness by which we are habitually endeared to one another."

The Letters of Samuel Johnson: Volume IV: 1782-1784 (Letters of Samuel Johnson The)

This book studies Richardson's originality in combining disparate elements from diverse sources - collections of letters, devout literature, plays, and early novels. The author is most interested in Richardson's fresh use of imagery and its effect, and suggests sources for the images in emblem books, poems, religious literature, and in art. The three novels are studied in relation to each other, and atmosphere, imagery, and themes compared; special attention is paid to the major novels, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison. Miss Doody is concerned with Richardson's characters, particularly his vivacious and independent heroines, and deals in an interesting manner with his presentation of woman as heroic in the only English tragic novel of the period.

A natural passion: A study of the novels of Samuel Richardson

Doody, Margaret Anne

xiv 239p hardback, clean and tight blue cloth binding, a fresh copy, college library bookplate and stamp, never used

Study of Cassius Dio

MILLAR

Dodds, E.R. The Ancient Concept of Progress and other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. VI, 218 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: Morals and Politics in the Oresteia / Euripides the Irrationalist / The Sophistic Movement and the FAilure of Greek Liberalism / The Religion of the Ordinary Man in Classical Greece / Supernormal Phenomena in Classical Antiquity etc.

The ancient concept of progress and other essays on Greek literature and belief,

Dodds, E.R.

On Reading French Verse: A Study of Poetic Form

On reading French verse: A study of poetic form

LEWIS, ROY

English Art, 1216-1307 (v. 4)

Brieger

A View of Early Typography has long been regarded as the classic text on the production and use of type in the first 150 years of printing. By focusing on type, Harry Carter goes to the heart of design, the point at which the material processes of printing meet the intellectual concerns of publishers and the nature of the texts they publish. Among the topics covered: the diversity of letterforms (blackletter, roman, italic, and more); the tensions between Latin and the vernacular languages; and the establishment of standards of norms in type design. This is a facsimile of the original edition, of 1969, augmented by a new introduction in which James Mosley explains the significance of the book and gives a short account of Carter's life and work.

A view of early typography up to about 1600, (The Lyell lectures)

Arts & Photography

Carter, Harry

Graphic Design

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