Vintage 1950 Poems By Christopher Smart Brittain 1st Ed HC Poetry Trinity USA

Green cloth boards show moderate shelf rubbing with fraying and small bumps at the corners and spine ends, plus a few faint spots on the covers. Spine cloth has light wear at the head and foot but the spine lettering remains clear and legible. Endpapers are clean with a few tiny specks, and the interior text pages are lightly age-toned but clean and unmarked throughout. Binding is tight and secure with no loose pages; original dust jacket is not present.

Title: Poems by Christopher Smart

Author: Christopher Smart; edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Brittain

Publisher: Trinity University Press, United States

Publication details: 1950 first edition hardcover volume

Format: Cloth-bound hardcover book without dust jacket

Genre/Topic: Poetry; literature and fiction; 18th-century English religious verse, hymns, and devotional works

Language: English

Country of origin: Printed in the United States of America

Physical description: Green cloth-covered boards in an octavo format with spine titling and cream-colored endpapers; interior text printed in black on off-white paper stock.

Illustrations: Includes a portrait frontispiece of Christopher Smart from a painting in the Pembroke College Library, along with additional plates reproducing another portrait, the title page of The Midwife, a holograph manuscript page titled "On Gratitude," and pages from A Collection of Melodies for the Psalms of David.

Contents overview: Front matter provides a preface and substantial critical introduction by Robert Brittain, followed by major sections such as Minor Poems 1735–1756, The Seaton Poems 1750–1756, Hymn to the Supreme Being 1756, Rejoice in the Lamb 1759–1763, a translation of The Psalms of David 1765, Hymns and Spiritual Songs 1765, A Song to David 1763, Minor Poems 1761–1768, a translation of The Works of Horace 1767, and Hymns for the Amusement of Children 1770.

Scholarly apparatus: Concludes with detailed notes on the poems for each major section, a note on the portraits, a selected bibliography, and a combined general index and index of first lines.

Special attributes: First edition clothbound collection of Christopher Smart's poetry edited by Robert Brittain, with extensive scholarly commentary and illustrative material; pre-ISBN era publication with no modern ISBN, UPC, or barcode present.

Condition details: see condition field for more information.

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