1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391677103316

Titolo

The summarie of certaine reasons [[electronic resource] ] : which haue moued the Quenes Maiestie to procede in reformations of her base and course monies, and to reduce them to their values, in sorte as they maye be turned to fine monies, appointed to be declared by her Maiestie, by order of her proclamacion, in her citie of London

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Imprinted at London, : In Powles Church yarde, by Rycharde Iugge and Iohn Cawood, printers to the Quenes Maiestie, [1560]]

Descrizione fisica

[12] p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

Elizabeth, Queen of England,  <1533-1603.>

Soggetti

Money - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Imprint from colophon; publication date from STC.

Refers to: By the Quene. The Quenes most excellent Maiestie, amongst other great and wayghtye consultacions had at sundry tymes with her counsayle .. hath founde by consente of all sortes of wyse men, that nothyng is so greuous . as the suffraunce of the base monies ..  (STC 7917).

With cuts of 4 coins.

Signatures: A⁴ B² .

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809821803321

Autore

Coward Noel <1899-1973.>

Titolo

The complete verse of Noël Coward / / edited and with a commentary, Barry Day

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Methuen Drama, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-4081-6402-7

1-283-47838-2

1-4081-4589-8

9786613478382

1-4081-4590-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (744 p.)

Collana

Diaries, Letters and Essays

Disciplina

821.008

Soggetti

English poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Credits And Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; 1. The Young Idea (1907-?1922); 'Vegetable Verse'; The Animal Kingdom; Romantic/Gothic; Nonsense Verse/Limerick; Scenes of Suburbia; 'Those Were the Days'; 2. 'Cod Pieces'; 'The Swiss Family Whittlebot' (Sketch - 1923); Early Whittlebot Poems; Poems by Hernia Whittlebot; Chelsea Buns (1925); Spangled Unicorn (1932); Reversion to the Formal; How Does Your Garden Grow; Hungry Land; Necromancy; Harlem; Ma People; Moss; Curve In Curve Out; Church of England; Sampan; The Emperor's Daughter

The Voice in the Bamboo ShootEvery Day; Theatre Party; Harlot's Song; Picnic Near Toledo; 'Flamenco'; Torero; 'Deirdre'; 'The Whisht Paple'; 'Pastoral'; First Love; Freundschaft; 'Youth'; Legend; Sicilian Study; Richmond Boating Song; Old Things Are Far the Best; The Nursemaid; Sunburn; To Rudyard Kipling; Dawn; 3. 'Family . . . Friends . . . and Others'; 'Family' . . .; Violet Coward; Lorn Loraine; Joyce Carey; Jack Wilson; Kay Thompson/Graham Payn; Cole Lesley; Gladys Calthrop; 'Friends' . . .; Edwina Mountbatten; Hope Williams; 4. Words of War;



Bread and Butter

5. Shall We Join the Ladies . . . ?Mary Baker Eddy; Marie Stopes; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Beatrice Eden; 6. Indefinite Thoughts on the Infinite; 7. The Theatre: 'A Temple of Dreams'; The Boy Actor; Ode to Italia Conti; Concert Types; When Babsie Got the Bird; To Meg Titheradge; To Mary MacArthur; Irene Vanbrugh Memorial Matinée: The Epilogue; Tribute to Ivor Novello; 'Dearest Binkie, dearest Bink'; Thoughts on Beatrice Lillie; 'Darling Alfred, dainty Lynn'; I Resent Your Attitude to Mary; Tribute to Marlene Dietrich; Epitaph for an Elderly Actress; Critics; Words . . .; . . . and Music

. . . and a Literary Footnote8. 'I Travel Alone'; On Leaving England for the First Time; P&O 1930; Pleasure Cruise; Souvenir; Lines to a Fellow Passenger; The Little Men Who Travel Far; Malta; Go to Malta, Little Girl; Thoughts on Corsica; Venice; Oh Walter Dear; Bali; Bora Bora; Martinique; Oh Dear; The Quinta Bates (Aunt Bates); From One Chap to Another: A Complaint; Jeunesse Dorée; 9. 'If Love Were All'; This Is to Let You Know; I Knew You without Enchantment; I Am No Good at Love; 10. 'The Party'S Over Now'; When I Have Fears; I'm Here for a Short Visit Only; Footnote; Part 8; *

Editor BiographyImprint

Sommario/riassunto

Three volumes of his verse were published in Coward's lifetime, but while The Complete Verse features all of the work from these three volumes it also presents previously unpublished material for the very first time. Coward expert Barry Day has collected together the additional verse which Coward sent to family and friends and which paints a vivid portrait of his more private life. For anyone who has enjoyed the Diaries or the Letters of Noel Coward , The Complete Verse offers further enjoyment and appreciation of Coward's wit, insatiable interest in people and skilful rendering of his public