Author: Various Authors
Title: An English Garner
Description: London, New York, Archibald Constable and Co and E.P. Dutton and Co, 1903-c1904. Cloth. A eleven volume collection of tracts, poems, essays and histories from the Tudor and Stuart period, part of a complete set of twelve. Including reprints and facsimiles, the works offer an interesting insight into both art and contemporary history of the era, including voyages to the new world include a great many decorative title pages and interesting examples of early typesetting. This valuable compilation of tracts, poetry, prose and other contemporary documents was first assembled under the editorship of Edward Arber and published in eight volumes between 1877 and 1896. Here the entire collection is reissued in greatly expanded form, rearranged and reclassified. The full list of works included here is as follows: Critical Essays and Literary Fragments by J. Churton Collins (1903) Social England Illustrated by Andrew Lang (1903) Shorter Elizabethan Poems by A.H. Bullen (c1903) Some Longer Elizabethan Poems by A.H. Bullen (c1903) Voyages and Travels (2Vols) by C. Raymond Beazley (1903) Tudor Tracts (1903) Stuart Tracts by C.H. Firth (1903) Later Stuart Tracts (1903) Elizabethan Sonnets (2vols) by Sidney Lee (c1904) Contains the bookbinders' label of Blackwell's of Oxford to volume one. In a cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally quite smart, there is wear to the joints, extremities, boards and backstrips, with some markings to the boards, particularly to volume one. Internally the pages are generally firmly bound, although there is some strain to the binding in some areas, and are bright and clean throughout, aside from some foxing to endpages, as well as the odd ink inscription. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: Poetry Prose Edward Arber Decorative Prose Tudor Stuart None


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