£140.00
8 vo. . vii, [viii – xii], 134pp plus 8 colour lithographs by John Piper printed by Cowell Ltd.. Quarter bound with green buckram spine and contrasting title panel. Hand-marbled paper boards by Douglas Cockerell & Son. Top edge gilt. Printed on Antique Laid paper mould-made by W. S. Cowell Ltd. Introduction by John Hadfield.Limited edition of 660 copies, this being number 644, signed by John Piper to the limitation page. A fine selection of Elizabethan Love Songs by, amongst others, Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, Edward de Vere, John Donne, Giles Fletcher, Ben Johnson, Christopher Marlowe, Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Watson etc. Book in very good condition. A little rubbing to extremities; light foxing on endpapers otherwise internally very clean and free of marks/annotations etc. with
Publisher: Cupid Press
Date: 1955
Place: Barham Manor, Suffolk
Book ID: 60003153