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Essay on sepulchres; or, A proposal for erecting some memorial of the illustrious dead in all ages on the spot where their remains have been interred
- Title
- Essay on sepulchres; or, A proposal for erecting some memorial of the illustrious dead in all ages on the spot where their remains have been interred / By William Godwin.
- Author
- Godwin, William, 1756-1836.
- Publication
- London : Printed for W. Miller, Albemarle Street. 1809.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | *Pforz A-LD 10 | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | *Pforz A-LD 11 | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person. | Text | Supervised use | NCZ (Godwin, W. Essay on sepulchres. London, 1809) COPY 1 | Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person. | Text | Supervised use | NCZ (Godwin, W. Essay on sepulchres. London, 1809) COPY 2 | Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Pforz (Godwin, W. Essay on sepulchres. 1809. 1st ed. London) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Pforz (Godwin, W. Essay on sepulchres. 1809. 1st ed. London) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Pforz (Godwin, W. Essay on sepulchres. 1809. 1st ed. London) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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- Description
- xii, 116 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustration (engraving); 17 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- Printer's imprint: "Printed by B. M'Millan, Bow Street, Covent Garden."
- Advertisements: "New books for children, published by M. J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, no. 41, Skinner Street, Snow Hill ..."; 12 pages at end.
- Illustration: Frontispiece engraving, "Life is the Desert and the Solitude," by Hopwood after Hilton.
- Epigraph: "Not one of these should perish" -- The Bible.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Indexed In (note)
- Anderson Galleries, The library of the late H. Buxton Forman, part II, April 26, 1920, lot 380
- Parke-Bernet Galleries, The rare books and manuscripts collected by the late A. Edward Newton, March 14-16, 1941, lot 136.
- New Cambridge Bibliography of English literature
- Call Number
- NCZ (Godwin, W. Essay on sepulchres. London, 1809)
- LCCN
- 11017580
- OCLC
- 3855982
- Author
- Godwin, William, 1756-1836.
- Title
- Essay on sepulchres; or, A proposal for erecting some memorial of the illustrious dead in all ages on the spot where their remains have been interred / By William Godwin.
- Imprint
- London : Printed for W. Miller, Albemarle Street. 1809.
- Edition
- [First edition.]
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Indexed In:
- Anderson Galleries, The library of the late H. Buxton Forman, part II, April 26, 1920, lot 380Parke-Bernet Galleries, The rare books and manuscripts collected by the late A. Edward Newton, March 14-16, 1941, lot 136.New Cambridge Bibliography of English literature, 1250
- Local Note
- Pforzheimer copy 1: Lacking advertisements. -- Bound in original blue-gray paper boards, with printed paper spine label; untrimmed; housed in blue linen clamshell case; CHPL stamp at rear pastedown. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer from Pickering and Chatto, March 1932.Pforzheimer copy 2: "Abby L. Tallmadge" in ink on front free endpaper and preliminary binding leaf. -- Bound in later full brown calf, with gilt decorations and letters on spine, gilt borders, inner dentelles, combed marbled endpapers, untrimmed. -- Acquired by the Pforzheimer Library from Ximenes, March 15, 1966.Pforzheimer copy 3: Lacking advertisements. -- Bound in old quarter roan-over-burlap, marbled boards, untrimmed; CHPL stamp at rear pastedown. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer from Elkin Mathews, December 1925.Pforzheimer copy 4: *Pforz A-LD 10: Presentation copy from Claire Clairmont to P. Smith: Ink inscription on title page reads in full "P. Smith -- from C[laire]. Clairmont" (CLCL 0055). -- With a note on Clairmont in ink on the front free endpaper, in the hand of Col. Cunningham. -- With the bookplate of H. Buxton Forman, and his penciled note on the front free endpaper, authenticating the hands of Clairmont and Cunningham. -- Bound in original drab boards, with printed paper spine label; untrimmed; housed in quarter blue morocco slipcase and blue-gray cloth chemise with the book-plate of A. E. Newton, and his monogram to foot of slipcase. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer at the A. E. Newton sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, March 14-16, 1941, lot 136.Pforzheimer copy 5: *Pforz A-LD 11: Presentation copy from William Godwin to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Ink inscription on title-page reads in full "Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin / May 14, 1814" (G 0351). -- Bound in contemporary tan calf with "MARY" stamped in gilt on upper cover, interlocking border stamped in blind to upper and lower covers, cover edges stamped in gilt, blind stamped turn-ins, spine diced in blind with six gilt rules, leather spine label with title: "Godwin / On / Sepulchres;" shell marbled endpapers, all edges marbled; front hinge repaired; housed within quarter red morocco slipcase and red cloth chemise. -- Note on flyleaf that this copy came into the possession of E. S. Burgess May 9, 1900 "from the collection of Thos. H. Ludlow, archaeologist, Secretary of the American School at Athens." -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer from A. S. W. Rosenbach, October 1936. -- For a virtually identical binding on another book formerly owned by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, see Pforzheimer copy 1 of Percy B. Shelley's "A refutation of deism" (*Pforz 559L 13).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Miller, William, 1769-1844, publisher.McMillan, Buchanan, active 1784-1834, printer.Hopwood, James, approximately 1752-1819, engraver.Hilton, William, 1786-1839, illustrator.Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane, 1798-1879, inscriber.Cunningham, Francis, 1820-1875, annotator.Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917, former owner.Godwin, William, 1756-1836, inscriber.Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, former owner.Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940, former owner.Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851, former owner.Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851, recipient.Tallmadge, Abby L, former owner.Ford Collection.
- Research Call Number
- NCZ (Godwin, W. Essay on sepulchres. London, 1809)Pforz (Godwin, W. Essay on sepulchres. 1809. 1st ed. London)*Pforz A-LD 10*Pforz A-LD 11