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DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631). Poems ... Newly corrected and Augmented. London: William Stansby for John Smethwick, 1630. 3 parts in one volume, 8° (160 x 105mm). Engraved architectural title, part-titles with woodcut publisher's devices [McKerrow Printers' & Publishers' Devices 368], woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials (some light browning, dampstaining or marking, minor marginal worming on quires A-B, 4 leaves torn at corners affecting text). Contemporary English calf, boards with borders of double blind rules, central gilt supralibros, [?]19th-century gilt calf lettering-piece on spine, red edges (extremities a little rubbed and bumped, short splits on joints, upper endpapers renewed). Provenance: title dated '1630' twice in a neat, early hand.

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DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631). Poems ... Newly corrected and Augmented. London: William Stansby for John Smethwick, 1630. 3 parts in one volume, 8° (160 x 105mm). Engraved architectural title, part-titles with woodcut publisher's devices [McKerrow Printers' & Publishers' Devices 368], woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials (some light browning, dampstaining or marking, minor marginal worming on quires A-B, 4 leaves torn at corners affecting text). Contemporary English calf, boards with borders of double blind rules, central gilt supralibros, [?]19th-century gilt calf lettering-piece on spine, red edges (extremities a little rubbed and bumped, short splits on joints, upper endpapers renewed). Provenance: title dated '1630' twice in a neat, early hand.

THE LAST EDITION PUBLISHED IN DRAYTON'S LIFETIME. The title engraving of this edition was first used for John Ramsey's Daphnes Trophees (Paris: R. Giffart, 1619), and was altered for use in the anonymous The Summe of Sacred Divinitie Briefly Propounded (London: William Stansby for W. Barret, [?1620]), before being altered again for use in this Stansby-printed edition of Drayton's Poems. ESTC S109923; Lowndes p. 672; STC 7224.
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