Dec 21, 2025
Edward Young, Yī Yī, 2000
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Edward Young, Yī Yī, 2000
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Life glides away, Lorenzo! like a brook; For ever changing, unperceived the change. In the same brook none ever bath’d him twice: To the same life none ever twice awoke.
Edward Young, The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality
Edward Young, from The Complaint: or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
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Marbled Monday
This Marbled Monday we’re sharing Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality by English poet Edward Young (1683-1765). Night Thoughts is Young’s most well-known work and it was very popular during his time. This edition was published in 1793, some 50 years after the poem was originally published, by Chapman & Co., London. It features fifteen engravings, but the engraver is not identified. The poem, as it says, deals with questions of life and death, with Death featuring in many of the illustrations.
This book is a lovely example of both Turkish marbling and tree calf leather binding. It is called “tree calf” because it is calfskin treated with chemicals in such a way that the pattern on the leather resembles a tree, as shown in the picture of the back cover featured here. The marbling of the endpapers is a lovely multi-colored Turkish pattern featuring teal/green, light blue, yellow, red, and either black or dark blue. Some of the colors have changed with wear over time, but it is certainly still nice to look at!
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Edward Young, Night Thoughts
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