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ELEGANT EXTRACTS! ELEGANT EXTRACTS: B eing a copious selection of instructive, moral and entertaining passages from the most eminent British poets. Complete in 18 volumes. Bound in the highest quality full tooled leather. Printed on rag paper. These measure 5 1/4 inches tall. This is an endearing set. This set is a FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING, of this improved 'copious selection', based on the original set, originally compiled by THE REV. VICESIMUS KNOX, D.D. initially intended for a younger audience. This set is still bound in the original 200+ year old, full tooled moroccan leather bindings. The leather is still supple despite being almost 220 years old. The hinges are all fully attached and sound. This set looks like it sat in a box for 220 years. There is no date printed on the title page. This set was printed between 1803-1809. John Sharpe printed from 1803-1809 at this Picadilly address. From 1809 to 1829 he had an address 'Opposite York House'. He died in 1829. Later Editions by Sharpe are ' Printed by Howlett & Brimmer, Soho', and are dated 1820. This set is the FIRST EDITION by Sharpe, printed at his Picadilly address. There is no date printed on the title page. This set was printed between 1803-1809. This set is 200 years old, and is still bound in the original full moroccan bindings. This is a gorgeous and highly endearing set, bound in a highly elaborate and expensive binding. Elegant Extracts: Prose, Poetry & Epistles. Complete in 18 volumes. [Printed circa 1803-1809.] This set is comprised of 3 subsets: Elegant Ext racts from the Most Eminent British Poets (complete in 6-vols). Elegant Extracts from the Most Eminent Prose Writers (complete in 6-vols). Elegant Epistles from the Most Eminent Epistolary Writers (complete in 6-vols). This set is complete with all 3 subsets of 6 volumes each; and is complete in 18 volumes total. Complete in 18 volumes. This is an important version of Elegant Extracts; the FIRST EDITION of this iteration, designed for adults. Originally compiled in the late 1700's by: THE REV. VICESIMUS KNOX, D.D. as ' ELEGANT EXTRACTS, OR USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING PASSAGES, FROM THE BEST ENGLISH AUTHORS AND TRANSLATIONS; PRINCIPALLY DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF YOUNG PERSONS.' This is a thorough collection of literature. Each volume has an engraved title page. This set is printed on quality rag paper. These are small books intended to be carried by the reader. These are more pocket sized than miniature. These measure 5 1/4 inches tall. This is an endearing set. This set is still bound in the original bindings. Rich blue, full morocco with extensive gilding, trimming, and gilt frames to the boards. All edges are cased in gilt. These are the original full-leather bindings. These display beautifully. London: John Sharpe, et al... (no date, printed circa 1803-1809). CONDITION : A truly gorgeous set. Exceedingly well preserved. This set is in exceptional condition despite it's sheer age. These are the original 200+ year old bindings. The leather is still supple and the hinges all sound. This set is exceedingly supple and fresh. Printed on quality rag paper, and well laid out. This set looks to have sat in a box for over 200 years. Very Good condition. Some generalized shelf wear/rubs. Light general wear and abrasions. Hinges are all strong and sound. Some minor foxing. Printed on quality rag paper. There is an early name. This set is still bound in the original 200+ year old bindings. This is an incredibly endearing set. This is a thorough collection of literature consisting of 3 subsets: Elegant Extracts. from the Most Eminent British Poets (6-vols). Elegant Extracts. from the Most Eminent Prose Writers (6-vols). Elegant Epistles from the Most Eminent Epistolary Writers (6-vols). Complete in 18 volumes total. A sample of content: Ancient and Classical Cicero Julius Caesar Tacitus, etc. Modern: Queen Anne to King Henry VIII Hooke Lord Bacon Queen Elizabeth Mr. Locke, etc Alexander Pope Joseph Addison Gay Swift, etc Rousseau Franklin Beattie Goldsmith Prior Green Cowper Cowley Milton Johnson Crabbe Churchill Young Pitt Sheridan Shakespeare Dryden Sterne Hume Smollett Voltaire and HUNDREDS more 1149 OOT Set is attributed to: Vicesimus Knox From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Vicesimus Knox, 1809 engraving Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821) was an English essayist, headmaster and Anglican priest. Contents 1 Life 2 Views 2.1 War and peace 2.2 Novels 3 Works 4 Family 5 Notes 6 Further reading Knox was born December 8, 1752, at Newington Green , Middlesex , the son of Vicesimus Knox (1729–1780), a cleric and schoolmaster, and his wife Ann Wall, daughter of Devereux Wall. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford , matriculating in 1771 graduating in 1775. Meanwhile, his father became headmaster of Tonbridge School in 1772. Knox became a Fellow of his college, and was ordained by Robert Lowth , becoming deacon in 1775 and priest in 1776. [1] [2] Knox replaced his father, who was in poor health, as headmaster of Tonbridge School in 1778. He was successful in raising the number of pupils, from around 20 to around 80. [1] Among Knox's students were Charles Girdlestone and John Mitford . [3] [4] During the 1790s Knox was critical of British foreign policy, [5] towards France and Poland, in articles written for the Morning Chronicle . [6] The pupil numbers at the school fell back again, after his unpopular views became known. [7] Knox accumulated some livings: Shipborne (1800, a chapelry, as bequest from William Holles Vane, 2nd Viscount Vane ), Ramsden Crays (1801), and Runwell (1807). But he did not become vicar of Tonbridge when the incumbent Henry Harpur died in 1790, the advowson passing out of the Vane family (to David Papillon), and John Rawstorn Papillon being appointed. Theophilus Lindsey had an account from Henry Austen of West Wickham of Knox acting as stand-in after Harpur's death, as a showy preacher who made pointed remarks about Unitarians that Austen took personally. [1] [2] [8] [9] As an essayist Knox wrote extensively on morals and literature, and as a minister he preached often on behalf of philanthropic causes and against war . Knox argued that and that Knox's Essays Moral and Literary , Volume II, contains Essay XVIII "On Novel Reading", which begins "If it is true, that the present age is more corrupt than the preceding, the great multiplication of Novels probably contributes to its degeneracy." [12] He considered that contact with Gil Blas or Devil Upon Two Sticks , picaresque novels by Alain-René Lesage , could cause a schoolboy to lose the taste for Latin classics. [13] The sentimental novel was explicitly linked by Knox to solitary vice . [14] An early critic of Laurence Sterne , he took issue with the morality of A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy . [15] He complained that Sterne and Elizabeth Draper, of Journal to Eliza , had too many imitators. [16] Winter Evenings has a story of Belinda who was too fond of "pathetic" novels. [17] Knox approved of travel writing . [18] Knox wrote: [19] Essays Moral and Literary , anon. London ; 2nd edition, corrected and enlarged, London 1779; Volume the Second , with 39 additional essays, was published in 1779, London, after the second edition of the original volume had appeared with Knox's name on the title-page; 12th edition, New York, 1793, 2 vols.; another edition, Basil, 1800; 17th edition, Lond. 1815, 3 vols.; in James Ferguson 's British Essayists , 2nd edition, vols. xxxv–vii. London 1823; new edition, London 1823, 3 vols., a duplicate of the preceding, without the collective title-pages; another edition in Robert Lynam 's British Essayist , vol. xxii. and xxiii., London 1827. Other editions are given in William Thomas Lowndes 's Bibliographer's Manua (Bohn). Liberal Education, or a Practical Treatise on the Methods of acquiring Useful and Polite Learning , Lond. 1781; 10th edition, Lond. 1789, 2 vols., with a letter to Lord North. Answered in An Examination of the Important Question whether Education at a Great School or by Private Tuition is preferable (1782) by Percival Stockdale . [20] Elegant Extracts, or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, selected for the improvement of Scholars at Classical and other Schools in the Art of Speaking, in Reading, Thinking, Composing, and in the Conduct of Life , anon. Lond. 1783; 10th edition, anon. Lond. 1816, 2 vols. ‘The Prose Epitome, or Elegant Extracts abridged,’ anon. Lond. 1791. Winter Evenings, or Lucubrations on Life and Letters , anon. Lond. 1788, 3 vols.; 2nd edition, Lond. 1790, 8vo, 2 vols.; 3rd edition, Lond. 1795, 3 vols.; new edition, Basil [printed], Paris, 1800, 2 vols.; new edition, Lond. 1823, 3 vols.; another edition is contained in Robert Lynam's British Essayists , vols. xxix. and xxx., Lond. 1827. Elegant Extracts, or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, selected for the improvement of Youth , anon. London 1789; other editions, anon. Lond. 1801, 1805, and 1816; The Poetical Epitome, or Elegant Extracts abridged , anon. London 1807 Elegant Epistles, or a copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters, selected for the improvement of young Persons, and for general Entertainment , Lond. 1790; another edition, Dublin, 1791. The ‘Elegant Extracts,’ both in prose and verse, and the ‘Elegant Epistles’ were frequently reprinted together; an edition was published by Sharpe in 1810 (18 vols.); ‘a new edition … prepared by J. G. Percival,’ 1842, Boston, Mass., (6 vols.); sometimes the ‘Family Lectures’ were added. Family Lectures, or Domestic Divinity; being a copious Collection of Sermons, selected from … Divines of the present century, for the Use of Schools , anonymously edited by Knox, London 1791–5, 2 vols.; the second, or "new volume", has an altered title; reprinted in 1815, and subsequently published in 1 vol. to match the Elegant Extracts . The preachers included Thomas Newlin . [21] Sermons, chiefly intended to promote Faith, Hope, and Charity , London 1792; 2nd edition, corrected, London 1793. The first edition contained some adverse remarks about Unitarians in the preface, and John Disney published a pamphlet Letters to Vicesimus Knox, D. D. occasioned by his Reflections on Unitarian Christians . Henry Barry Peacock then defended Knox. [22] [23] Personal Nobility, or Letters to a young Nobleman on the Conduct of his Studies and the Dignity of the Peerage , anon. Lond. 1793; dedicated to Charles James Fox . Antipolemus, or the Plea of Reason, Religion, and Humanity against War; a Fragment, translated from Erasmus and addressed to Aggressors , anon. Lond. 1794. The extracts were from the Dulce bellum inexpertis , Adagia and Querela Pacis of Desiderius Erasmus . Knox wrote a lengthy introduction against the War of the First Coalition , which had set Great Britain against France. [24] The Spirit of Despotism … London, printed in the year 1795; Philadelphia, reprinted … Nov. 28, mdccxcv ; it blames exploitation in Britain on returning nabobs . [25] There were four later editions, "dedicated to Lord Castlereagh",’ and "edited by the author of the "Political House that Jack Built"" (i.e. William Hone ), published in 1821, Lond.; another edition by the same editor appeared in 1822, Lond. with Knox's name on the title-page; the 10th edition appeared in the fifth volume of Knox's Works ; 11th edition, with A Preliminary Dissertation on Government, Law, and Reform, and the Life and Character of Dr. Knox, the Author , London 1837, with portrait. Hone states that the book was first privately printed in London, in 1795, but was suppressed by Knox; but the American edition may have been the first. Christian Philosophy, or an Attempt to Display the Evidence and Excellence of Revealed Religion , Lond. 1795, 2 vols.; 3rd edition, with an appendix on Mr. Paine's "Pamphlet on Prayer, on Psalmody, and a short List of Books for the use of the … unlearned reader", London 1798. First American edition, Philadelphia, 1804; another edition, with an introductory essay by the Rev. Henry Stebbing , appeared in vol. xix. of Cattermole and Stebbing's Sacred Classics , London 1835; and later editions, London 1854, &c. [26] Considerations on the Nature and Efficacy of the Lord's Supper , Lond. 1799; 2nd edition, abridged, Lond. 1800. Remarks on the tendency of certain Clauses in a Bill now pending in Parliament to degrade Grammar Schools. With cursory Strictures on the national importance of preserving inviolate the Classical discipline prescribed by their Founders , London 1821; second edition corrected, in The Pamphleteer for 1822. The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D.D.: With a Biographical Preface (1824) Also single sermons and anonymously issued editions of Juvenal and Persius (1784) and of Catullus (1784; reprinted 1824). [19] Thomas De Quincey called Knox "a writer now entirely forgotten" in a footnote to his Philosophy of Herodotus (1842). [27] [28] Knox in 1778 married Mary Miller (died 1809). Their children were: [1] Holles Josiah, died young Vicesimus (d. 1855), a barrister, married in 1845 Lucy, third daughter of Ralph Bernal ; [29] after his death she married Seymour Tremenheere [30] Thomas (1784–1843), who succeeded his father as headmaster of Tonbridge School in 1812 Sarah.