Baillie Joanna

Cross, Maurice (compiler); Mark Akenside, Dr. Anster, Joanna Baillie, Bernard Barton, John Bedlake, Mrs Price Blackwood, Michael Bruce, Robert Burns, Thomas Campbell, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Collins, William Cowper, Jane Gilman, Thomas Gray, Etc: Selections from the British Poets, Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to the Present Time, Under Separate Divisions, with Introduction Explaining the Different Species of Poetry (Volume II) Dublin/London Alex Thom & Sons/Longman, Green & Co 1860 ; fester Einband / hard cover
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xx, 539 pp inc 7-page publisher's catalogue and subject-matter index and indices arranged by subject matter and by title - This extremely scarce (no other copies currently online) volume was "Printed and published under the direction of the Commissioners of National Education, Ireland". <BR> It is Volume II of a two-volume set and includes works by: Mark Akenside, Dr. Anster, Joanna Baillie, Bernard Barton, John Bedlake, Mrs Price Blackwood, Michael Bruce, Robert Burns, Thomas Campbell, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Collins, William Cowper, Jane Gilman, Thomas Gray, Elizabeth Hawkshaw, Thomas K. Hervey, Mary Howitt, H. W. Longfellow, William Julius Mickle, thomas Otway, Alexander Pope, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Smith, Edmund Spenser, Maryanne Stoddart, Jeremiah Holme Wiffen, William Wordsworth and hundreds of other poets through to the mid-19th Century. <BR> Covers (brown cloth with blind-stamped titles and motif to front board and faded gilt titles to spine) is edgeworn, soiled and with cross-stiching to each side of the spine in an amateur (but relatively successful) attempt at repair. Textblock is lightly tanned and has minimal foxing. Prelims are missing. No Jacket Cloth 4 x 7"

[SW: Poetry, Verse, Anthology, Mark Akenside, Dr. Anster, Joanna Baillie, Bernard Barton, John Bedlake, Mrs Price Blackwood, Michael Bruce, Robert Burns, Thomas Campbell, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Collins, William Cowper, Jane Gilman, Thomas Gray, Elizabeth Hawkshaw, Thomas K. Hervey, Mary Howitt, H. W. Longfellow, William Julius Mickle, thomas Otway, Alexander Pope, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Smith, Edmund Spenser, Maryanne Stoddart, Jeremiah Holme Wiffen, William Wordsworth Burns, Robert Victoriana Scott, Sir Walter Antiquarian Anthologies]

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Baillie, Joanna. The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 ; fester Einband / hard cover
Some foxing. A 1/2" chip to cloth at tail of spine. A 1 1/2" tear to cloth along tail of spine. A couple of <1/2" tears to cloth at head of spine. 1/4" chips to cloth at tips of corners of boards. No signatures. ; Stated "Second Edition" on title page. [ii], xxii, 847, [1] pages + frontispiece + extra engraved title page. Contemporary blue blind-stamped cloth boards. Page dimensions: 210 x 150mm. Dramatic works make up most of the volume. Includes the poem "Ahalya Baee" on pages 839-847 with footnotes on the subject quoting from Sir John Malcolm's "Central India". "War on her distant frontiers nevere ending, / Was waged by chiefs for booty still contending / E'en more than power; but round her seat of sway, / Peaceful and bright, a charmed circle lay." - extract from Ahalya Baee, page 842. Also includes "Metrical Legends" and "Fugitive Verses". Spine title: "The Works of Joanna Baillie".; 8vo.

Second Edition, Hardcover, Good+ with no dust jacket

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BAILLIE, JOANNA. -- CARHART, MARGARET S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. (EN)

Hamden,Archon,1970. Ocl.dj.215p. Bibliography. SW: BIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHIE

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Leonard, R. M. (Robert Maynard) (ed): The Pageant of English Poetry: Being 1150 Poems and Extracts By 300 Authors, London Henry Frowde 1909 ; fester Einband / hard cover
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xv. 606pp inc index to first lines, index to subjects and original tissue-protected b+w frontis - The 1150 poems by some 300 authors were written over the course of 600 years. Their works are presented in alphabetical order of poets' names and furthermore in alpha order of each work's first line. Amongst the authors whose works are included in this volume are: Joseph Addison, Mark Akenside, Matthew Arnold, Sir Robert Ayton, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, Francis Bacon, Joanna Baillie, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Richard Barnfield, William Basse, Aphra Behn, William Bowles, Emily Jane Bronte. Also: Samuel Daniel, Erasmus Darwin, Helen Selina Dufferin, Queen Elizabeth I, Jane Elliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walter Pope, Matthew Prior, Francis Quarles, Samuel Rogers, Christina Georgina Rossetti, John Ruskin, John Scott, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan. And: John Skelton, Christopher Smart, Henry Kirke White, Countess of Winchelsea, John Wolcott, William Yonge, etc .Covers (red leather with gilt rules over red cloth to front and rear boards and red leather with six panels gilt trimmed with gilt titles to spine) are edgeworn, rubbed and lightly soiled. TEG. Marbled front and rear end papers. A blank square of white paper has been affixed to the first blank page following the FEP apparently to cover up some writing, some very light foxing, otherwise textblock is immaculate. No Jacket Half-Leather 5 x 7.5"

[SW: Joseph Addison, Mark Akenside, Matthew Arnold, Sir Robert Ayton, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, Francis Bacon, Joanna Baillie, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Richard Barnfield, William Basse, Aphra Behn, William Bowles, Emily Jane Bronte, Samuel Daniel, Erasmus Darwin, Helen Selina Dufferin, Queen Elizabeth I, Jane Elliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walter Pope, Matthew Prior, Francis Quarles, Samuel Rogers, Christina Georgina Rossetti, John Ruskin, John Scott, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan, John Skelton, Christopher Smart, Henry Kirke White, Countess of Winchelsea, John Wolcott, William Yonge, Poetry, Verse, Anthology, Antiquarian, R. M. Leonard, Poetry Antiquarian Anthologies]

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