Title: Poems: Viz. The Barons Warres, Englands Heroicall Epistles, Idea, Odes; The Legends of Robert, Duke of Normandie, Matilda, Pierce Gaveston, and, Great Cromwell; The Owle; Pastorals, Contayning Eglogues, with the Man in the Moone. Author: Drayton, Michael Place: London Publisher: W. Stansby for John Swethwicke(sic) Date: [1619] Description: [viii], 487 pp. Additional engraved title page; engraved portrait on title page verso. (4to) 25x15 cm (9¾x6") 20th century full brown morocco, gilt-rule border, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt-topped raised bands, wide gilt-ruled dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a matching full morocco "fire-resisting" solander case, spine lettered in gilt. Binding and case by Zaehnsdorf. First Folio Edition, First Issue, with Swethwicke for Smethwicke in title page imprint. Scarce volume of verse from the Elizabethan poet, a contemporary, and by some accounts, friend of William Shakespeare. Pforzheimer 307; STC 7222.3 Lot Amendments Condition: Case lightly worn; occasional spotting and foxing, final leaf silked on blank verso; fine. Item number: 282874
Title: Poems: Viz. The Barons Warres, Englands Heroicall Epistles, Idea, Odes; The Legends of Robert, Duke of Normandie, Matilda, Pierce Gaveston, and, Great Cromwell; The Owle; Pastorals, Contayning Eglogues, with the Man in the Moone. Author: Drayton, Michael Place: London Publisher: W. Stansby for John Swethwicke(sic) Date: [1619] Description: [viii], 487 pp. Additional engraved title page; engraved portrait on title page verso. (4to) 25x15 cm (9¾x6") 20th century full brown morocco, gilt-rule border, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt-topped raised bands, wide gilt-ruled dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a matching full morocco "fire-resisting" solander case, spine lettered in gilt. Binding and case by Zaehnsdorf. First Folio Edition, First Issue, with Swethwicke for Smethwicke in title page imprint. Scarce volume of verse from the Elizabethan poet, a contemporary, and by some accounts, friend of William Shakespeare. Pforzheimer 307; STC 7222.3 Lot Amendments Condition: Case lightly worn; occasional spotting and foxing, final leaf silked on blank verso; fine. Item number: 282874
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