lord rochester (33 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Condición: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Condición: Very Good. New Ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Welcome to Lord Rochester: Complete Poems (1996) ? Everyman?s Poetry , ISBN 9780460878197 ? a book that arrives looking respectably classic and then immediately starts behaving like it has been smuggled out of a Restoration drinking den in someone?s sleeve. Because this is John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester : court wit, professional troublemaker, and the sort of poet who could turn a compliment into an insult, an insult into an aphrodisiac, and an aphrodisiac into a philosophical crisis before the candle had burned down. If you like your poetry polite, uplifting, and suitable for reading aloud at a village fête, Rochester is not here for you. If, however, you enjoy brilliance with sharp elbows ? satire, sex, cynicism, swagger, and the occasional unexpectedly tender moment hidden behind the leer ? then welcome to the party. Mind the puddles. ?Complete Poems? is a bold promise, and with Rochester it comes with a certain delicious danger: completeness means you don?t just get the famous stings and punchlines, you get the full range of his voice ? from gleeful obscenity to razor-edged social observation, from drunken bravado to sudden clarity about how fleeting everything is. He?s obscene, yes, but he?s also frighteningly intelligent. The jokes land because the mind behind them is quick enough to make you laugh and wince at the same time. You?ll read a line and think, I can?t believe he wrote that, and then think, annoyingly? that?s good. The irony, of course, is that Everyman?s Poetry packages him in a dignified little volume ? the literary equivalent of putting a rowdy libertine in a clean shirt and asking him to behave at dinner. It?s charming, really: you can place this book on your shelf next to Shakespeare and Keats and it will sit there looking refined, while quietly containing material that would have got you escorted out of polite society and possibly challenged to a duel. It?s the perfect stealth classic: respectable cover, scandalous contents. Rochester?s world is Restoration England: a court full of intrigue, hypocrisy, and performance; a culture that loved wit almost as much as it loved pretending it didn?t; a moment when poetry could be both weapon and entertainment, and the sharpest people used language the way others used swords. He writes about desire like it?s a joke and about virtue like it?s a rumour ? but underneath the mischief there?s often a hard, bleak honesty about pleasure, power, and the body?s inconvenient insistence on mortality. Condition: Good , meaning this copy has been read, handled, and survived ? much like Rochester himself, at least for a while. Expect a little wear, but it?s still perfectly ready to do its job: make you laugh, raise your eyebrows, and remember that ?classic literature? has always contained an unruly streak. Perfect for: lovers of satire, wit, and sharp historical voices, readers curious about Restoration culture and its less polished underside, poetry fans who don?t mind being scandalised as a form of education, and anyone who enjoys a book that looks respectable while smirking. Sold by Crappy Old Books , naturally ? because where else would a tidy Everyman edition of history?s most gloriously inappropriate poet end up, if not waiting for the next reader to pick it up, read a page, and think: Right. That?s enough enlightenment for today.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Stapled, decorative card wraps.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Color & b&w Ilustrador. 1st. First American Edition; dj w/lite chipping, unclipped pre; illustrated end papers; 231 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Color & b&w Ilustrador. 1st. 1st American edition; dj w/lite chipping, small closed tear, unclipped price; pictorial end papers; 231 clean, unmarked pages.

Paperback. Condición: Used; Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condición: Very Good. 12 pages, illustrated. With list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Multiple copies available this title. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Four pages, 12mo, not bound. COPAC records only one copy, at Cambridge. -.

Paperback. Condición: New. Planet Earth - The Making of an Epic Series Brand new item sourced directly from publisher. Packed securely in tight packaging to ensure no damage. Shipped from warehouse on same/next day basis.

Title from cover. This is the Address by the Lord Bishop of Rochester (the Rt. Rev. Dr. R. D. Say) as the Service of Thanksgiving in All Saints' Church, Tudeley on Sunday 19 December 1976. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has a scuff with loss of some of the letter D in Goldsmid.

No Binding. Condición: With All Faults (W.A.F.). Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dustjacket. 36 pages. TEXT BLOCK ONLY, binding MISSING, starts with title page, ends with last page, both of theese have some darkening & foxing. Page-edges darkened, text has one or two brown marks, but is holding together well and is reasonably clean for age. Needs rebinding.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. Planet Earth - The Making of an Epic Series This book is in good or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages will be missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in great condition and the front cover is generally unmarked. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Shipping is normally same day from our UK warehouse. We offer a money back guarantee if you are not satisfied.

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an very decorative and attractive antique portrait. Circa 1790.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. 81; minor age-toning, else very good in original marbled wrappers, chipped on spine. Horsley's sermon, which runs to p. 27, is followed by the Proceedings of the Society, with brief accounts of work in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Canada, Cape Breton, the Bahamas, and West Africa.

Hardcover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Dust jacket. First Edition. Dj a little bumped. Very good indeed.

Original paper boards. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. London: Edwards and Knibb, 53 Newgate Street, 1820. First edition.16mo. (6.1" x 3.8" approx.). xiv,53,[1],[4pp. ads.]; 84; 113,[1],[6pp. ads). Frontispiece. Decorative tail-pieces. §Comprises three undated volumes in Cooke's Pocket Library, Select Poets (Rochester; Hammond & Sprat; Lyttelton). See Prinz LIV. Seemingly only one copy of this 1820 first edition held: University of Bangor. (Copies of 1821 edition at National Library of Wales, & 2 USA locations). An unsophisticated copy in printed paper boards, top edge rough, others untrimmed. Old tape marks to endpapers (from home-made protective wrapper, since discarded); early ownership name erased on front pastedown. Lower third of spine lost. Generally rubbed but sound if somewhat fragile.

Wraps. Condición: Good. This is a Good condition booklet. The pages are foxed. Printed and sold by H. Hills, in Black-fryar, near the Waterside.

Full-Leather. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Bound in contemporary full leather binding with four raised bands to the spine. The title panel on the spine has been lost. The spine has light chipping at the top and light edge cracking. The corners are bumped with some light rubbing. Browning to the edges of the endpapers. This book belonged to the Wale family of Shelford near Cambridge and there is a bookplate to the front pastedown along with a name, Lady Wale to the the front free endpaper which also has 'Wale' and '1900' in pencil. Brown stain to the title page and the first page of the text. The pages are a little browned but otherwise generally unmarked. First printing.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. The Fourth Edition. Plates. Including 'EXPERIMENTS Of the Recoiling of GUNS' by the Lord Brouncker, pp. 233 - 239 ;- 'THE HISTORY Of Making GUN-POWDER' PP. 277 - 283;- 'THE HISTORY Of the Making of SALT-PETER' by Mr. Henshaw, pp. 260 - 276 ;- 'A METHOD For making a History of the WEATHER' by Mr. Hook, pp. 173 - 179 ;- 'A PROPOSAL For making WINE' by Dr. Goddard, pp. 193 - 195;- 'DIRECTIONS FOR THE Observations of the Eclipses of the Moon' by Mr. Rooke, pp.180 - 189 ;- etc., etc. Royal 8vo. Heavily worn boards / joints cracked but just holding. (xii) + 438pps. A Scarce collection. Sold with all faults.

First edition. xvii, [1], 398pp. With a half-title and eleven engraved folding plates. Uncut and largely unopened in contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper joint starting. Armorial bookplate of Sylvester Lord Glenbervie to FEP. A crisp copy of the first edition of Church of England clergyman Samuel Horsley's (1733-1806) primer on the fundamental principles of mathematics in three parts, 'Arithmetic of Fractions', 'Trigonometry, plane and Spherical', and 'Projections of the Sphere'. The tracts were first composed 'without any design for publication, for the use of a young Gentleman, a Student of Christ-Church' and afterwards 'given to the University of Oxford.' Horsley additional notes that 'this volume is to be considered also, though first published, as the Third and last in the order of the subject, of Three Volumes of Elementary Geometry, to be issued one after another, with all convenient speed, from the University Press'. Sylvester Douglas, first Baron Glenbervie (1743-1823), British politician and lawyer, sometime Chief Secretary for Ireland (1793-1794). Size: 8vo.

Between 1604 and 1868 the House of Commons exercised jurisdiction over controverted (disputed) elections, which were usually referred to its Committee of Privileges and Elections. The Parliamentary Archives hold the Controverted Elections Court Evidence minute books for the period between 1829 and 1906. The minute books contain transcripts of the evidence laid before the committee. The present material in addition to casting light on parliamentary procedure in the aftermath of the Great Reform Act fills out the entries in the minute books, by providing documents from the electoral and legal team (the 'Agents' and 'Counsel') of the sitting member, the Whig Thomas Twisden Hodges (1809-1865), in the Rochester constituency at the General Election of 1835, against whom a petition had been delivered by electors in the interest of the defeated Tory Lord Charles Wellesley (1808-1858), younger brother of the Duke of Wellington, who had lost the election by one vote. The present collection of manuscript material comprises five packets each folded and endorsed in the customary fashion with one further item folded into the fifth packet. Items Two to Five each consist of the same 'bundle' of three papers, and each has 'Prentis, | Rochester' written at the foot of the endorsement, Henry Prentis being one of Hodges' two agents. The sets of four copies were made for Hodges' legal team, as three of the four variously carry the names of the three 'Counsel for the Sitting Member [i.e. Hodges]': 'Mr. Austin', 'Mr. Joy' and 'Mr. Chandless'. The most significant item in the collection, Item One, has 'Pratt | Rochester' at the foot of the endorsement, 'Pratt' being the other agent. The final item, the notes enclosed with Item Five, carries no background names. A committee was appointed to examine the petitioners' case on 17 March 1835, and its proceedings are described in a sixty-page account in J. W. Knapp and E. Ombler, 'Cases of Controverted Elections in the Twelfth Parliament of the United Kingdom, being the Second Parliament since the Passing of Acts for the Amendment of the Representation of the People' (London: 1837, pp.71-130, 'Case V. The City of Rochester'). That account begins: 'The petition in this case was presented against the election and return of Mr. Hodges, by electors in the interest of Lord Charles Wellesley, who had been the unsuccessful candidate at the previous election. The numbers, at the close of the poll, were, for Mr. Bernal 502, Mr. Hodges 443, and Lord Charles Wellesley 442. The case was one of scrutiny, and all the questions arose on the discussion of particular votes.' After sixty pages detailing the scrutiny of the various votes, the account concludes: 'The Committee came to the usual resolutions, that Mr. Hodges was duly elected and ought to have been returned, and that neither the petition nor the opposition to it were frivolous or vexatious; and they reported to the House that they had altered the poll by striking off William Wyles, &c. twenty names.' ('Prentis' and 'Pratt' are described in Knapp and Ombler as Hodges' 'Agents: - Mr. Henry Prentis, and Mr. Pratt, Rochester.' And the other named parties are Hodges' three 'Counsel for the Sitting Member: - Mr. Joy, Mr. Austin, and Mr. Chandless.' (It is worth noting that Hodges' first wife was Mary Ann Floretta Chandless.) The following description is divided into six parts. ONE: Endorsed '1836 | Rochester Registration | Freemen | Mr. Prentis's Bundle.' Eleven-page document giving details of each contested vote, with each page on a separate paginated leaf, and a twelfth covering leaf, the twelve leaves attached together with pink ribbon. The document is titled at head of first page: 'City of Rochester registration 1836 | Freemans Claims & Objections'. Heavily annotated in several hands. The first three pages list the 'Claims' in alphabetical order from 'Austen John | Troy Town Rochester' to 'Wood William | Standgate Creek'. Austen's entry is typical in setting out the points in a particular claim: 'To prove claim and service of it - | To prove that he is an admitted freeman | To prove his residence within the city for 6 months previous to 31st. July'. Each claim is annotated in the margins, with some entries accompanied in the left-hand margin by notice of the committee's decision, such as 'claim allowed', 'struck out', 'disallowed'. The right-hand margin appears to give the name of the individuals charged with checking each point, i.e. 'Town Clerk', 'Wm. Scrimes & Wm. Chambers', 'John Pordage', 'Richard Peall'. The left-hand margin carries notes on how to approach the various points, the notes for 'Balcomb John Barton | St. Nicholas Rochester' being the longest: 'struck proof of title: same evidence as if before corpr for freedom [in another hand] Bindg. & service or birth &c as case may be. - Inchoate right. Sec: 32. - sec. 46 exception to necessity of admission see Rog: 184. 185 | Vote admitted by H: of Commons only | Master must be present to satisfy count of service | qu: also age: -'. The requirement regarding 'Collin James' of 'Eastgate St. Nicholas Rochester' is 'To prove that he is dead', with marginal note 'Sec: 50. | may certify mistake | person prove dead &c.' The list of 'Objections' is laid out in the same manner as the 'Claims', beginning with 'Allbeury, Robert' of 'Strood' and ending with 'Young George' of 'St. Nicholas Rochester'. It is longer, covering pp.4-11 of the document. The covering leaf to the eleven-page document carries six references to a legal work ('Rogers'). TWO: Endorsed '(No 1. | (see Note written | Pr) | 1835 | Rochester Election Petition. | Index to Briefs. | Mr. Austin.' Consisting of three documents, totalling 5pp, on five 41 x 33 cm sheets, pinned together. The first of the three documents is 3pp, and headed 'Rochester Election | 1835 | Index by Class of the List of Objections put in by the Petitioners'. In margin of first page: 'Note. The letter plan is to index the names only alp.

8vo., First Edition, some general age-staining throughout (but all text wholly clear and legible), wanting front and rear free endpapers; strongly bound in eighteenth century panelled calf tooled in blind, back with raised bands, uncut, boards mildly age-worn and marked, corners moderately bruised else a crisp, relatively clean copy in wholly unrestored period binding. With 3pp publisher's advertisement at end. This copy was formerly in the library of one George Humphreys. It carries a lengthy signed holograph inscription (dated 1771) on front paste-down, and a charming verse (dated 29 September 1771) on rear paste-down: 'George is my Name, Earth is my Nation, Heaven is my Dwelling Place and this is my Generation'. COPAC lists above severnteen copies in the UK.

Condición: Poor. Hardcover. No dustjacket. Marks/scuffs/discolouration/some tears to cover & damp stained area at outer edge. Hinges cracked. Water damage/stain to content throughout but text remains readable.

On rectangle of laid paper, roughly 4 x 7 cm. In good condition, lightly-aged paper with one vertical fold. Good firm signatures, wih Rochester's above Ernle's. Writing on reverse relates to Sir Thomas Vernon and the payment of an order.

spiral_bound. Condición: Very Good. First Edition.