The Poetical Decameron, or Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry, particularly of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.

by Payne Collier, ohn

$300 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

Edinburgh: printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 1820. Two vols., sm. 8vo, xlv, i , 336; ii , 353 pp., half-titles present. Early half green morocco, marbled boards, gilt tops, backstrips faded as usual, minor scuffing to the leather, internally a very fine copy. Bookplate with monogram IIS in each volume. § First edition. Collier's second proper book, in which he wrote of many of the lesser known Elizabethan poets.

• Binding: Leather

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