Elizabethan Love Songs With lithographs by John Piper. Limited edition, signed by John Piper.

Hadfield, John (editor)

Published by Cupid Press, 1955

About this Item

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 the original glassine wrapper which does have a tear on the back. An excellent copy. size Size 235 x 145mm (8.25 x 5.5 inches. Seller Inventory # 60003153

Bibliographic Details

Title: Elizabethan Love Songs With lithographs by ...

Publisher: Cupid Press

Publication Date: 1955

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: John Piper

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition