Night Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality Young Folio Society 2005 Limited 2v

Night Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality Young Folio Society 2005 Limited 2v

£689.99
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Night Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality Young Folio Society 2005 Limited 2v
Folio Society
Poetry & Plays

Night Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality

Edward Young

£689.99
Edition year 2005
Printing year 2005
First edition No
Binding Leather
Illustrator William Blake
Volumes 2
Limited edition Yes
Weight 15 Kg
Dimensions V1: 42.8 × 34.1 cm; V2: 42.8 × 34.1 cm; V3: 25.2 × 16.2 cm
Condition Good
Condition notes In good overall condition. No.767, some dents to the slipcase and cover of I, a few small light scratches to cover of I, case and page edges.

Edition details

Night Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality or The Complaint by Edward Young. (2v.) Facsimile Edition. Illustrated by William Blake. Bound in one quarter silver lettered black goatskin over blue and silver decorated cloth with leather title label on front panel. 362 page unillustrated commentary volume by Robin Hamlyn. Cloth solander box. 548 pages in 2 facsimile volumes. 46x36.5x14.5cm. 1000 copies. (£875)

About the book

Edward Young's Night Thoughts is a long eighteenth-century poem meditating on life, death, time, immortality and Christian faith. Written as a series of nocturnal reflections, it considers grief, worldly ambition and humanity's relationship with eternity. The work became enormously influential across Europe and helped shape the darker, contemplative sensibility later associated with Graveyard poetry and Romanticism.

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