Research Catalog
Prison books and their authors
- Title
- Prison books and their authors / by John Alfred Langford.
- Author
- Langford, John Alfred, 1823-1903.
- Publication
- London : William Tegg, 1861.
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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 | Use in library | NCZ (Langford, J. A. Prison books and their authors) COPY 2 | Schwarzman Building - 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 | Use in library | NCZ (Langford, J. A. Prison books and their authors) COPY 1 | Schwarzman Building - 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 | Restricted use | Arents 95-423 | Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
Details
- Description
- ix, [1], 357 p., [6] leaves of plates : ports.; 19 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Illustrations: 6 prints : wood engraving ; full-page. Subject: Ports. of Cervantes, Raleigh, Southwell, Wither, Bunyan, and Leigh Hunt.
- "It was after this expedition [1585] that the well-known anecdote of Sir Walter's smoking occurs. Oldys thus tells it ..., 'But the tradition of Raleigh's smoking tobacco at first privately in his study, and of the servant, who used to wait on him there ... entering ... before he had done his pipe; and seeing the smoke reeking out of his mouth, threw all the ale in his face ...'"--P. 89-90.
- Binding: Publisher's bluish violet cloth, gilt.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Boëthius and his De consolatione philosophiae -- The Earl of Surrey -- Cervantes -- Sir Walter Raleigh and his History of the world -- Robert Southwell, the martyr -- George Wither, the Puritan -- Lovelace, the Cavalier -- Bunyan and his Pilgrim's progress -- Dr. Dodd and the Prison thoughts -- James Montgomery -- Leigh Hunt -- Thomas Cooper and the Purgatory of suicides.
- Call Number
- Arents 95-423
- LCCN
- 28022634
- OCLC
- 2927885
- NYPG95-B5890
- Author
- Langford, John Alfred, 1823-1903.
- Title
- Prison books and their authors / by John Alfred Langford.
- Imprint
- London : William Tegg, 1861.
- Local Note
- Provenance: John Christian Wieland, Albany, N.Y. (autograph on t.p.).
- Local Subject
- Wieland, John Christian Provenance.
- Research Call Number
- Arents 95-423NCZ (Langford, J. A. Prison books and their authors)