{"product_id":"night-thoughts-on-life-death-and-immortality-edward-young-stereotype-edition","title":"Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, Edward Young — Stereotype Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication:\u003c\/b\u003e London, Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, n.d. [c. 1800–1815]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormatting:\u003c\/b\u003e 8vo, pagination unverified, untrimmed text block.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Report:\u003c\/b\u003e Good. The volume has been sensibly but plainly rebound in grey-blue paper over boards, presenting a tight, secure structure devoid of external embellishment. The text block remains entirely untrimmed, preserving its original rough-cut edges which display expected age-toning and moderate dust-soiling. Internally, the binding holds firm, though the preliminary leaves, including the frontispiece and title page, exhibit significant damp staining and prominent tide marks primarily localised to the lower gutter and margins. Intermittent foxing and scattered spotting are present throughout the text block, commensurate with the paper stock and provincial production of this era, yet the structural integrity remains uncompromised and the text is fully legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatalogue Note:\u003c\/b\u003e This \"Stereotype Edition\" compiles Edward Young’s profoundly influential blank-verse meditation alongside Robert Blair’s \u003ci\u003eThe Grave\u003c\/i\u003e and supplementary verses, effectively gathering the period's most popular \"Graveyard School\" poetry into a single, accessible volume. The text is accompanied by an engraved frontispiece portrait of Young and several internal engraved plates executed by notable period craftsmen (including Neagle, Cooke, and J. Palmer), representing a solid example of nineteenth-century provincial illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe copy bears modest but interesting provenance markers, including early ownership signatures (\"J. Burman\" and what appears to be \"John Forster\") on the preliminary leaves. Having been rebound functionally in plain paper boards, the book stands as an authentic, unsophisticated survival of a heavily read printing. Such stereotyped editions, while historically printed in enormous numbers to satisfy the sweeping middle-class appetite for pietistic literature, are surprisingly scarce on the open market today in any condition, as they were overwhelmingly read to pieces rather than preserved in formal libraries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA quintessential cornerstone of the eighteenth-century \"Graveyard School\" of poetry, Edward Young's \u003ci\u003eNight Thoughts\u003c\/i\u003e was a spectacular literary success that defined the mood of Christian melancholia for generations. Written in profound grief following a succession of personal losses, this expansive blank-verse epic explores the transient nature of life, the inevitability of death, and the hope of immortality. This compilation also features Robert Blair's similarly influential poem \u003ci\u003eThe Grave\u003c\/i\u003e, alongside other contemporary elegiac works, offering a comprehensive immersion into the era's fascination with mortality, mourning, and spiritual redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54577033445715,"sku":"5046","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260809_193927.jpg?v=1786615542","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/night-thoughts-on-life-death-and-immortality-edward-young-stereotype-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}