The Poetical Works Of George Herbert.
£35.00
Publisher
R. and A. Suttaby 2 Amen Corner.
Place
London
Date
1877
Synopsis
With memoir by j. nichol, b.a. oxon. edited by charles cowden clarke. includes the synagogue, by christopher harvey. [spine title: herbert's poems].
Item Description
Small 8vo. 6.5 x 4.5 inches. xxxv + [vi] + 311 pp. Title page in red and black. Bound in brown grained leather with gilt and blind stamped borders on board, enclosing gilt title lozenge on front board; spine in compartments with raised and gilt bands. All edges gilt. Extremities a slightly worn, including corners and spine. Front hinge just starting to crack and little marginal browning and foxing of first few pages, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Decorated throughout, including half title page, head and tailpiece and inner margin vignettes and by initials, This edition of the Poetical Works of George Herbert (1593-1633) also includes The Synagogue, by Christopher Harvey (1597-1663), poet and clergyman, which was added to editions of Herbert from 1640. The introductory essay, The Life and Poetry of George Herbert is by John Nicol (1833-94), Scottish literary academic, who was made Regius Professor of English at the University of Glasgow in 1862. The work is edited by Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), writer on literature and Shakespeare scholar. A reprint of the publisher's first edition of 1863, in a handsome binding.
[Stock No. 29613]
