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Southey, Robert.. Madoc, A Poem, In Two Parts.. Longman, Hurst et al, London, 1805.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Description: 4to. 557 pp. ex-library copy with bookplate and ink stamps to prelims, fep loose, small class mark to verso title page and small ink stamp to first and final page, foredges dusty and marginal waterstain to pp 319-331, some foxing to 'title' pages otherwise good, in half calf, marbled boards, extremities worn, boards detatched, class mark to spine. please see images. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Tombland Bookshop, Norwich, NFLK, United Kingdom
Southey, Robert. Madoc in Wales - Vol. 1. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, London, 1805.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Full leather. Author was a British poet laureate. Volume ONE only of his epic poem, about a Welsh nobleman/prince. Front board is partially detached, but the text block is tight. Full leather is rough/rubbed with corners and all extremities worn. Lacking title page, but a facsimile title page laid in. Spine crown lacking 1" x 1' of leather. Volume number still visible on leather spine as is title. Scattered moderate foxing throughout. A large 'Notes" section at rear (pages 193 - 258). Rear blank free end-paper has four lines of pencil notations. 258 pages. Protected in a archival mylar slip.
Seller: Margins13 Books, Redmond, WA, U.S.A.
Southey. Robert. Madoc in Wales and Madoc in Aztlan. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1805.
Price: US$111.30 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Disbound copy. Front board missing, rear board detached. Early pages foxed. First 2 leaves loose. Marbled fore-edges.
Seller: Ystwyth Books, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Price: US$418.69 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [ii], ix, [i], 557, [1] pages. Interestingly this volume does not have the engraved title page, or the plates. Lacks pages numbered 185/6 and 435/6, but the printer's signatures are continuous and text continuous, so perhaps this was where the plates would have been. Here with the printed half title page. Staining to the end papers from the leather binding. Pages lightly browned throughout, some spotting and staining. In old full red morocco binding, which is worn and the spine is faded and creased. Ink inscription to the front free end paper - HN [?] Brown from James Ballantyne with a date added below in pencil - 5 Feby 1857. This cannot have been James Ballantyne the publisher as he had died in 1833. A heavy volume, extra postage will be required to send it outside the UK
Seller: Stephen Rench, Shipston on Stour, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Large 4° (27.8 x 22 cm.), Twentieth century (second half) full calf, spine (faded to tan) gilt with slightly raised bands in six compartments, black leather lettering pieces in second and fourth compartments from head, gilt ruled design on covers with florins at corners, marbled endleaves, text block edges marbled from an early binding. Some light browning and scattered foxing. In good to very good condition. Engraved plate, engraved title page, (1 l.), vii-xii pp., second engraved title page, 557 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of one of the future poet laureate's major, relatively early works.Madoc, also spelled Madog, ab Owain Gwynedd was, according to folklore, a Welsh prince who sailed to America in 1170, over three hundred years before Columbus's voyage in 1492. According to the story, he was a son of Owain Gwynedd, and took to the sea to flee internecine violence at home. Madoc's legend has been a notable subject for poets. The most famous account in English is this long 1805 poem by Robert Southey, which uses the story to explore the poet's freethinking and egalitarian ideals. Southey wrote Madoc to help finance a trip of his own to America, where he and Samuel Taylor Coleridge hoped to establish a Utopian state they called a "Pantisocracy". Southey's poem in turn inspired the twentieth-century poet Paul Muldoon to write Madoc: A Mystery, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1992. It explores what may have happened if Southey and Coleridge had succeeded in coming to America to found their "ideal state".*** Haller p. 316: Simmons 13: "None of the three copies which I have examined contains both the title-pages." Not in Tinker.
Seller: Richard C. Ramer Old and Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
SOUTHEY, Robert. Madoc.. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme., 1805.
Price: US$644.13 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Half morocco, 11 inches tall. A superb copy of the first edition in Georgian half morocco. With gilt bands and very ornate gilt centre tooling, typical of the period. Illustrated with superb engraved vignettes. With the bookplate of Stewart, Lord Londonderry. From the library of Charles William Vane (formerly Stewart), third Marquess of Londonderry. Vane served with distinction throughout the Peninsula War. His dashing and dandified portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence is at the National Portrait Gallery. He amassed magnificent libraries in his various Country Houses.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom