Author: Bishop Henry King; John Sparrow [ed.]
Title: The Poems of Bishop Henry King
Description: London, The Nonesuch Press, 1925. Hardback. A limited edition of the collected poems of Henry King. Henry King was an English poet and Bishop of Chichester in the seventeenth century, author of numerous elegies on royal people and on his close friends, who included John Donne and Ben Johnson. The present volume contains his collected poems edited by John Sparrow, published in a large paper, limited edition of nine-hundred copies, this number three-hundred and forty. The typography has been designed by Francis Meynell. In the original publisher's full paper vellum binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, light soiling to boards and spine, darkening to spine and minor chipping to extremities. Boards warped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Occasional leaf unopened. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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