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DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631). Poems. London: [V. Simmes] for N. Ling, 1605.
8o (147 x 92 mm). Title with typographical frame and woodcut publisher's device (McKerrow 301). Woodcut initials, type ornaments. (Title soiled and with two tiny nicks to margin, some staining, a few leaves short and possibly supplied, a few headlines and page numbers shaved.) Green morocco gilt, gilt-panelled spine, edges gilt, by F. Bedford. Provenance: occasional early marginalia -- Charles Bean (faint signature on L7v) -- William Harris Arnold (bookplate) -- Winston H. Hagen (morocco label) -- Louis H. Silver (morocco label), sold in the sale of Newberry Library duplicates from the Silver accession, 8 November 1965, lot 87, to Seven Gables Bookshop -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 16 January 1969. Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 8.
FIRST EDITION, though preceded by the collection entitled The Barrons Wars in the Raigne of Edward the Second. With Englands heroicall epistles, published in 1603. Z7-8 are cancels, Z8 being in the second of two states with Drayton's name in roman on the verso. The many fine sonnets addressed to "Idea" probably refer to Anne, second daughter of Sir Henry Goodere, an early patron of Drayton. Grolier Langland to Wither 88; STC 7216.
8o (147 x 92 mm). Title with typographical frame and woodcut publisher's device (McKerrow 301). Woodcut initials, type ornaments. (Title soiled and with two tiny nicks to margin, some staining, a few leaves short and possibly supplied, a few headlines and page numbers shaved.) Green morocco gilt, gilt-panelled spine, edges gilt, by F. Bedford. Provenance: occasional early marginalia -- Charles Bean (faint signature on L7v) -- William Harris Arnold (bookplate) -- Winston H. Hagen (morocco label) -- Louis H. Silver (morocco label), sold in the sale of Newberry Library duplicates from the Silver accession, 8 November 1965, lot 87, to Seven Gables Bookshop -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 16 January 1969. Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 8.
FIRST EDITION, though preceded by the collection entitled The Barrons Wars in the Raigne of Edward the Second. With Englands heroicall epistles, published in 1603. Z7-8 are cancels, Z8 being in the second of two states with Drayton's name in roman on the verso. The many fine sonnets addressed to "Idea" probably refer to Anne, second daughter of Sir Henry Goodere, an early patron of Drayton. Grolier Langland to Wither 88; STC 7216.