Englands Helicon / reprinted from the edition of 1600 with additional poems from the edition of 1614

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1925, First Edition. London : Printed for Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald. First edition in this form. Limited and numbered edition, inscribed and dated to Marie Stopes: 644/900. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over paper-wrapped boards, in a good if somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #455962

Physical description; ix pages 256 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; A page for page reprint of the first edition of 1600, paging being supplied, and 9 additional poems from the edition of 1614 (p. [203]-218). With type-facsimile of original t.-p. Ascribed, with other Elizabethan miscellanies, to John Bodenham, who probably projected the work and befriended the editor, the "A. B." (as yet unidentified) who signed the dedication and prefatory sonnet in the first edition. More recently ascribed to Nicholas Ling. cf. Introd. & Dict. nat. biog. Subjects; English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700. Pastoral poetry, English.

Price: €325.00