Description: M E D I T A T I O N S AND CONTEMPLATIONS BY THE REV. JAMES HERVEY, A. M. London :PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS BY HENRY FISHER1822 DESCRIPTION(ii) + 448pp + (ii)Book measures 220mm x 140mm approximately.Nicely bound in quarter medium tan calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt-ruled bands and author / title in gilt to compartment. Double gilt fillet plus scrolled gilt borders to both boards. Green end-papers and paste-downs. Portrait frontispiece and further classical mortality style engraving prior to title page, with six further similar engravings throughout.CONDITIONThe binding is holding firm. A few minor nicks and scuffs to boards and edges with small losses of marbled paper, slight wear to upper hinges with partial early cracking, some light surface scratches, and mild bumping to board corners.Internally the pages exhibit uniform age-toning / browning throughout, with random spots and small patches of minor foxing, also to engravings and title page. Neat ink previous owner signature to top of front end-paper dated 1873.Please always refer to photo images for a clearer indication of condition.We are always happy to provide further photo images if required.INTERESTINGJames Hervey (1714 to 1758) was an English clergyman and writer. Educated at Lincoln College, Oxford he came under the influence of John Wesley and the Oxford Methodists. His style is often bombastic, but he displays a rare appreciation of natural beauty, and his simple piety made him many friends.His earliest work, Meditations and Contemplations, said to have been modelled on Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflexions on various Subjects Hervey had a lasting impact on art through William Blake, who was an admirer of his. Blake painted Epitome of James Hervey's Meditations among the Tombs between 1820 and 1825. Hervey is also mentioned in Blake's work as one of the holy guards to the 'four-fold gate', and his influence on Blake's poem The Tyger has also been noted. The sombre and sweeping tone of his Meditations Among The Tombs ("the dreadful pleasure inspired by gazing at fallen monuments and mouldering tombs") has led to his being placed amongst the 18th century "Graveyard School" of poets, rendering his work an important influence on Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" of 1764 and consequently, the entire genre of Gothic literature and the later Romanticism.
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