Author: Francis Davison; A H Bullen
Title: Davison&Apos;S Poetical Rhapsody
Description: London, George Bell and Sons, 1890. First edition. Cloth. A smart, two volume set of Elizabethan Francis Davison's poetical 'Rhapsody&apos. Edited by famed literary scholar and specialist in 16th and 17th century literature, Arthur Henry Bullen. First thus, the first edition of this Bullen editorial. Limited edition, numbered eighty-nine of five hundred and twenty copies of this edition. In the original publisher's binding. The editor of this poetry collection, Arthur Henry Bullen, is remembered for founding the Shakespeare Head Press, which printed fine editions similar to the Kelmscott Press. Bullen has written a lengthy introduction which provides context to the poems. This work was written by Francis Davison, the son of the Elizabethan secretary of state William Davison. Of his literary contributions, he is known for 'The Masque of Proteus at Gray's Inn&apos. This poetry collection is his largest literary contribution, as he was the editor of the work and included several of his own poems. To the introduction, Bullen notes that this anthology is 'the most valuable of our old anthologies.' In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor shelfwear to the boards and joints. Minor offsetting to endpapers. Pages are very bright with just the odd spots to pages. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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