HABINGTON'S CASTERA
by ELTON, Charles A
Price: $50.00
- Bookseller: Antic Hay Books
- Seller Inventory #: 26021
- Book condition:
- Binding: Hardcover
Book Description
0. ELTON, Charles A. HABINGTON'S CASTARA. With A Preface And Notes by Elton. Printed And Published in Bristol by J. M. Gutch around 1812. 16mo., recent tan quarter-calf leather & marbled boards. New Edition, with the text based on Habington's 1640 edition. Habington married Lucy Herbert, daughter of first baron Powis, and this collection is comprised mostly of love poems to her. The 1640 edition also adds elegies on a friend and, for the first time, a number of sacred poems. Very Good (contents pretty clean & tight with some occasional foxing, particularly to the first few and last several pages).
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