The Works of John Chalkhill. Edited with an introductory essay, commentary, and appendices

by Charles Ryskamp & Scott D. Westrem by John Chalkhill

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First edition

London : The Roxburghe Club, 1999. First edition, one of a small number specially bound for members of the Roxburghe Club names of 42 members are printed on a preliminary leaf . 4to. xiv, 220 pp. Illustrated from facsimile manuscript pages. Chalkhill ca. 1595-1642 was a seventeenth-century British poet who is known by two angling songs that Izaak Walton included in his 1653 Compleat Angler, a 3000-line pastoral history published as Thealma and

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