Complete Works of John Lyly in 3 Volumes. This item is unavailable.Complete Works of John Lyly in 3 Volumes

A beautiful set elegantly bound in half leather scarlet Levant Morroco and marbled endpapers. Volume 1 (542 pages) contains Bond's biography of Lyly; Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Entertainments; and the Funeral Oration on the death of Queen Elizabeth. Volume 2 (574 pages) contains Euphues and His England; and the plays Campaspe, Sapho and Phao, and Gallathea. Volume 3 (620 pages) contains the plays Endimion, Midas, Mother Bombie, The Woman in the Moone, Loves Metamorphosis, The Maydes Metamorphosis; the Anti-Martinist works Pappe with an Hatchet, A Whip for an Ape, Mar-Martine, and The Triumphs of Trophes; Poems; and the general index to all three volumes. Much of these volumes has not been read as many of the pages have not been cut. The condition of the three volumes is consistently Fine. A wit and playwright, Lyly (c. 1553-1606) coined the phrase, "All is fair in Love and War.".