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London : John Russell Smith, 1869. First Hazlitt edition of “the greatest song writer ever born of English race” (Swinburne). After the neglect of almost two centuries, the most complete collection of Herrick’s work to have appeared up until that time, adding a number of poems never previously printed, as well as alternative versions of a number of poems, further poems attributed to Herrick, and a number of surviving letters, a biography, etc. Edited and introduced by William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913) in the “Library of Old Authors” series.
Two volumes. Crown 8vo (195 x 124mm). xxx,(1)-256,256*; [iv],(257)-526pp. Portrait frontispiece. Facsimiles. Bound in an elegant later (early twentieth-century) half red crushed morocco, banded and prettily gilt by John Ramage (1836-1911) & Co.; top edges gilt; marbled sides and endpapers; a very good set indeed.

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London : Oxford University Press, 1975. First edition of this authoritative Oxford Standard Authors text, edited and introduced by Professor Ian Donaldson. Includes the Epigrams, The Forest, The Underwood, Ungathered Verse, Songs and Poems from the Plays and Masques, Leges Convivales, Dubia, etc.
Post 8vo (198 x 129mm). xxii,410pp. Facsimiles. Bound in an elegant contemporary quarter brown morocco, banded and gilt; marbled sides; very good.

£100

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London : Vizetelly & Co., 1887-1889. The unexpurgated text of ten Massinger plays in the admirable Mermaid Series of “the best plays of the old dramatists” – The Duke of Milan, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The Great Duke of Florence, The Maid of Honour, The City Madam, The Roman Actor, The Fatal Dowry, The Guardian, The Virgin-Martyr, and Believe As You List. Edited and introduced by Arthur Symons (1865-1945). First edition thus.
Two volumes. Crown 8vo (19cm). xxxii,496; [x],(470)pp. Portrait frontispieces. Original decorative cloth; lacks front free endpaper to vol.i; vol.ii a little dulled; a few minor signs of age and use, but a good set.

£50

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