Description
The Beauties of Hervey: Or, Descriptive, Picturesque and Instructive Passages, Selected from the Works of This Deservedly Admired Author, Memoirs of the Author’s Life and Characters; with An Elegiac Poem on His Death, James Hervey, Printed by Peter Brynberg, Wilmington, Delaware, 1797, 226 pp plus elegy, full original leather, 7 x 4.5”, 12mo. In fair condition. Boards are mottled with wear to edges and corners. Light surface scuffing and dryness to hinges. Spine label is mostly missing with loss along spine overall. Tree calf leather. Interior is moderately toned, lightly soiled. Chipped flyleaf. “Margaret Graham’s Book October 22nd, 1811” on second flyleaf. Spotting throughout. Free of marginalia. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Hervey, a popular bombastic Divine, had a deep influence on William Blake who painted “Epitome of James Hervey’s Meditations among the Tombs”. Two works in this collection — Meditations Amongst the Tombs & Theron and Aspasio decisively influenced the imagery in Blake’s well-known poem The Tyger. COLU1797ABFK-variant
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