Love in It's Extasie : or, the Large Prerogative: A Kind of Royall Pastorall.

Published by Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, Ilkley, first edition, 1981, 1981

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The edition included 170 copies made available for sale. Black quarter morocco and red boards with vellum corner tips, 8vo, top edge gilt, 21 cm, 56, [56] pp. A facsimile reprint of the 1649 London quarto edition in King George III's collection. The authorship is attributed to William Peaps, a distant cousin of Samuel Pepys. Includes an introduction by Robert Birley on The Royalist plays of 1649 and an Appendix summarizing the story of the play. From the introduction: "The play, like so many others of the period, is a very complicated relation of several love stories. It contains some remarkable poetry for a schoolboy. From the beginning to the end there continually crops up the question what men’s attitude should be towards a tyrant. Was revolution ever justified? Did it not inevitably lead to another tyranny? The solution comes in the closing lines of the play - and remarkably moving lines they are - when the remorseless ruler of the kingdom admits he has been mistaken, 'Too long I have practis’d Tyranny; Mercy hereafter shall become my study.'" The copy of Christopher Dobson, sometime librarian of the House of Lords, with his name marked by a printed red asterisk in the list of Members. Near Fine. Prospectus laid in.…

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Title
Love in It's Extasie : or, the Large Prerogative: A Kind of Royall Pastorall.
Author
Gentleman, A. ; Peaps, W. ; Birley, R.
Publisher
Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, Ilkley, first edition, 1981
Publication year
1981
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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