Jacob philipp hackert biography of william shakespeare
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SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)
The Plays, 10 vol., engraved portrait, volume titles and title to each individual play with wood-engraved vignette, contemporary panelled calf, sides with outer double gilt rule border, inner dotted border and central elongated hexagonal panel, gilt panelled spine with black morocco labels, spines with some polished surface cracks and wear at top, 8vo, T. Bensley for James Wallis, 1805
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SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)
The Entireness, 8 vol., carven frontispiece appoint each field, a juicy leaves lopped at relinquish, contemporary streaked calf, rebacked, with engaged morocco labels, J. Tonson, 1635 [i.e. 1735]; idem, 4 vol. only, another edition, outdoors general title-pages, contemporary sura gilt, after red maroc spine labels, J. Tonson, 1735; Description Works... spawn Mr Theobald, 8 vol., engraved vignette and frontispieces to rant play, different buckram coworker red leather spine labels, J. & R. Tonson, 1767, 12mo (20)
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Vesuvius and the buried cities in the age of Romanticism
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One of the wittiest travel books written about Naples is Le Corricolo [the title refers to a type of Neapolitan carriage], published by the dramatist, journalist and novelist, Alexander Dumas, about his visit to the city in 1835. In a pause from its breathless dialogue, Dumas turned his attentions to the volcano, Vesuvius, that towers over the Bay of Naples. He portrayed the smoking mountain as a brilliant actor whose calculated performance gives it bigger billing than its more physically impressive rivals of Etna and Stromboli. “In nature as in art, in the creations of God as in the work of man, in the volcano as in drama”, Dumas writes, “alongside real merit there is reputation”. Taking advantage of its “admirable position and magnificent mise en scene” Vesuvius burst into prominence in AD 79 and followed this up with more than fifty eruptions, making so much noise and smoke that it “eclipsed” its rivals. Dumas describes the volcano’s dramatic first entry – the debut of its “carriere volcanique” as “a master stroke”: “To wrap the countryside and the sea in a dark cloud; to spread terror and n