Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry: Re-published Principally from Early Printed Copies in the Black Letter

  • Hardcover
  • London: T. Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817
By Utterson, Edward Vernon
London: T. Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo. Half leather, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Spines with gilt titles. Top edges gilt.


Contains: Syr Tryamour, Syr Isenbras, Syr Degore, Syr Gowghter, The Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous, The Schole House of Women, The Defence of Women, The Proude Wyues Pater Noster and The Wife Lapped in Morels Skin.



The first couple and last couple of pages in both volumes have a stain along the bottom edge , the leather and board papers are rubbed else this is a very good set.


Francis Palgrave's copy, with his signature on the title page of volume one dated 1841. And with the bookplates of printer John Frank Connor in each volume.

Details

Title

Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry: Re-published Principally from Early Printed Copies in the Black Letter

Author

Utterson, Edward Vernon

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

T. Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown: London

Date

1817

Edition

First edition


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