Glaucus and Silla; With Other Lyrical and Pastoral Poems.
230 copies printed for sale. 8vo. [184 x 111 x 17 mm]. xvi, 152 pp, with 12 pp of advertisements. Original tan paper covered boards, boards and spine lettered in black, plain endpapers, edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom-made slip case. (Slight loss of paper covering the boards, the lettering on the spine worn off).
Chiswick: Printed by Charles Whittingham for Robert Triphook, 1819
A very good copy. Gilt bookplate of Alexander McGrigor to front paste down. There is a manuscript correction in the advertisement for Hero and Leander, with the substitution of Christopher Marlow for Leigh Hunt. An imprint label is bound in at the end.
Number 5 in the 'Select Early English Poets' series edited by S. W. Singer and printed at the Chiswick Press. Glaucus and Silla first published in 1589 and written by the Elizabethan poet Thomas Lodge is notable for strongly influencing Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.
Stock no. ebc9197
Glaucus and Silla; With Other Lyrical and Pastoral Poems.
230 copies printed for sale. 8vo. [184 x 111 x 17 mm]. xvi, 152 pp, with 12 pp of advertisements. Original tan paper covered boards, boards and spine lettered in black, plain endpapers, edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom-made slip case. (Slight loss of paper covering the boards, the lettering on the spine worn off).
Chiswick: Printed by Charles Whittingham for Robert Triphook, 1819
A very good copy. Gilt bookplate of Alexander McGrigor to front paste down. There is a manuscript correction in the advertisement for Hero and Leander, with the substitution of Christopher Marlow for Leigh Hunt. An imprint label is bound in at the end.
Number 5 in the 'Select Early English Poets' series edited by S. W. Singer and printed at the Chiswick Press. Glaucus and Silla first published in 1589 and written by the Elizabethan poet Thomas Lodge is notable for strongly influencing Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis.
Stock no. ebc9197
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