Search Results: theatrum poetarum anglicanorum containing the names by phillips edward

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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;… Read More

Canterbury:: Simmons and Kirkby,. Very Good. 1800. Hardcover. Edited by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges. An enlargement of the 1675 edition. First printing thus. Octavo, bound in brown leather with gilt lettering, borders and design, marbled edges and endpapers, ribbon bookmark. Previous owners' book-plates (Charles Butler, Esq. of Warren Wood, Hatfield and Shakespearean scholar H. B. Charlton) on front paste-down and front free endpaper, occasional light foxing, minor shelf wear, else very good. ; 336 pages .

London: Canterbury, 1800. First Printing of this Enlarged, Updated Edition. 203 x 121 mm. (8 x 4 3/4"). lxxix, [i], 336, 6 pp.Edited by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges. Appealing recent brown quarter morocco over linen boards, raised bands, red morocco label. Front flyleaf with ownership inscription of "G. D. / Canonbury"; title page with small, discreet embossed stamp of "Mark Pattison, Lincoln College, Oxon" (see below for both). ◆In exceptionally fine condition inside and out. This is a series of brief biographies of 165 English poets who flourished between the years 1270 and 1603, beginning with Robert of Gloucester and ending with Queen Elizabeth herself. According to DNB, "it includes considered accounts of Shakespeare and Marlowe, a well-written introductory 'discourse on poets and poetry', a panegyric on his brother John, and a reticent allusion to his famous uncle," John Milton. Phillips was educated by Milton and later served as his uncle's amenuensis, after the poet's eyesight failed. The… Read More