[Rarebooks] FS: Early Wilmington, DE Imprint of Influence on William Blake, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:    Was $150   Now  $85:

HERVEY, James. THE BEAUTIES OF HERVEY: OR DESCRIPTIVE, PICTURESQUE AND 
INSTRUCTIVE PASSAGES, SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF THIS DESERVEDLY ADMIRED 
AUTHOR, viz. MEDITATIONS AMONGST THE TOMBS--REFLECTIONS ON A FLOWER 
GARDEN--DESCANT ON THE CREATION--CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE NIGHT--THE STARRY 
HEAVENS--A WINTER PIECE--THE MOST IMPORTANT, INTERESTING, AND 
PICTURESQUE PASSAGES FROM THERON AND ASPASIO--LETTERS AND 
SERMONS--MISCELLANIOUS TRACTS-- RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF 
DAUGHTERS--AND--REMARKS ON LORD BOLINGBROKE'S LETTERS. TO WHICH ARE 
ADDED, MEMOIRS OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE AND CHARACTER; WITH AN ELEGIAC POEM 
ON HIS DEATH. Wilmington, DE: Peter Brynberg, 1797. New Edition. 
Duodecimo (4" x 6-3/4") bound with the half-title page in original sheep 
with a gilt-lettered red morocco label; 226 [6] pages. Evans 32249. 
Paper darkened. One page torn with no loss; rear blank and endpaper 
partially present. Very Good.

Hervey, a popular and bombastic Divine, had an influence on William 
Blake who painted "Epitome of James Hervey's Meditations among the 
Tombs." Two of the works in this collection--MEDITATIONS AMONGST THE 
TOMBS and THERON AND ASPASIO--decisively influenced the imagery in 
Blake's well-known poem "The Tyger." (#004958)        $85.00

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