5 volumes. With prefatory memoir by James Maidment and W.H. Logan. (8vo) contemporary red cloth with brown morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. One of only 4 copies printed on vellum. A massive, 2,100 page work printed entirely on vellum. Likely the largest work on full vellum of this period, taking two years to complete. Sir William D'Avenant was one of the major English playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. A prolific author, D'Avenant penned everything from plays, masques and operas, to epic poems and panegyrics. He was active as a writer both before and after the English Civil War. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply.
5 volumes. With prefatory memoir by James Maidment and W.H. Logan. (8vo) contemporary red cloth with brown morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. One of only 4 copies printed on vellum. A massive, 2,100 page work printed entirely on vellum. Likely the largest work on full vellum of this period, taking two years to complete. Sir William D'Avenant was one of the major English playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. A prolific author, D'Avenant penned everything from plays, masques and operas, to epic poems and panegyrics. He was active as a writer both before and after the English Civil War. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply.
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