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Phillips' Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum: Containing the Names and Characters of all the English Poets, from the Reign of Henry III. to the Close of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; and now enlarged by additions, etc, by Sir E. Brydges
by Phillips, Edward; Brydges, Samuel Egerton
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Canterbury: Printed by Simmons and Kirkby for J. White, Fleet-Street, London, 1800 Contemporary three-quarter leather over marbled boards, enlarged from the 1675 original by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, gilt lettering to spine, binding tight pages clean & largely unfoxed, a.e.g., minimally ex-library (Boston Public Library & Occidental College) with label to front pastedown and blindstamp to title page recto & to page 1, removal stamp to title page verso and small label to spine, from collection of Keats scholar Earle Vonnard Weller with his bookplate to pastedown and curious inked note (by Weller?) to second & third white pages quoting a passage from Lamb's Literary Sketches of 1848 concerning Phillips' Poetarum, externally the boards are moderately rubbed & the leather chipped at all edges with loss to spine ends (particulalrly the tail), professionally rebacked c. 1920, an overall Very Good copy of this scarce compendium of biographies of English poets penned by Milton's nephew, Phillips; 8vo; (lxxix) 336. Half-Leather.
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- Title
- Phillips' Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum: Containing the Names and Characters of all the English Poets, from the Reign of Henry III. to the Close of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; and now enlarged by additions, etc, by Sir E. Brydges
- Author
- Phillips, Edward; Brydges, Samuel Egerton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Canterbury: Printed by Simmons and Kirkby for J. White, Fleet-Street, London, 1800
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Phillips' Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum: Containing the Names and Characters of all the English Poets, from the Reign of Henry III. to the Close of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; and now enlarged by additions, etc, by Sir E. Brydges Phillips, Edward;
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