Select Beauties of ancient English Poetry …

HEADLEY, Henry, editor.

Published by London, Printed for T. Cadell … 1787., 1787

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2 vols., 8vo., with half-titles, list of subscribers, and errata leaf; engraved title vignettes; apart from a tear to top margin of a6-7 in volume I, a fine copy in contemporary speckled calf, gilt rolls to covers, spines gilt, slight worming to lower joint of vol. II.First edition. This important miscellany which would have been continued had not the young editor died in 1788 at the age of twenty-three explores some of the byways of Elizabethan and early Stuart poetry. After a long introductory appreciation with biographical sketches of the poets, the verse is presented under headings such as Descriptive, Moral, Elegiac. The section of Sonnets mainly by Daniel, Drayton, and Drummond may have influenced Headley's Oxford friend, William Bowles, a subscriber, who two years later was to publish his first collection of Romantic sonnets. Language: English. Seller Inventory # E2592.1

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Title: Select Beauties of ancient English Poetry …

Publisher: London, Printed for T. Cadell … 1787.

Publication Date: 1787

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition