Simpson Percy Preface (2 results)

Leather. Condition: Very Good. A smartly bound copy of this collection of poetry from seventeenth century English writer Robert Herrick. With a portrait frontispiece. The collected poetry of Robert Herrick, a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. With chapters containing the full book of Hesperides, his Nobel Numbers, and additional poems. With a full index of titles and first lines. Edited by Frederic William Moorman, an English poet and playwright. With a prefatory note by Percy Simpson, an English literary scholar. Bound in half crushed morocco with marbled boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the endpapers. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Full Morocco. Condition: Very Good. 446 pp. Full black morocco with gilt lettering to the spine and front cover. Endpapers marbled and all edges gilt. With a frontispeice. Thin paper edition. With a ribbon bookmark, loosely enclosed. Rubbing to the spine and edges. Binding firm. With a bookplate belonging to American scholar and poet Wilmon Brewer and his wife Katharine to the front pastedown. Internally clean. 8vo.…