The English Parnassus : or a help to English poesie.

A$1,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Containing a collection of all the rhythming monosyllables, the choicest epithets and phrases. With some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and themes, alphabetically digested. London: Henry Brome, Thomas Bassett, and John Wright, 1677. Second edition (first published in 1657). Octavo, finely bound in nineteenth century full vellum by Seton Mackenzie, contrasting red morocco title labels to spine (one with small chip), lettered and ruled in gilt, edges stained red, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, title leaf in red and black (foxed), pp. [xxxii]; 639, scattered foxing, a very good copy. An attractive copy of this source book of words and phrases for the English poet.

• Binding: Hardcover

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