Author: [Robert Allott]; Various
Title: Englands Parnassus; or, the Choysest Flowers of Our Moderne Poets: With Their Poeticall Comparisons. Descriptions of Bewties, Personages, Castles, Pallaces, Mountaines, Groves, Seas, Springs, Rivers, &C. Whereunto Are Annexed Other Various Discourses, Both Pleasaunt and Profitable
Description: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. Cloth. A very scarce privately printed edition of this anthology of Tudor poetry, a work notable when first published due to its inclusion of Shakespeare's poetry. A very scarce work.Privately printed.A 1814 reprint of this work, first published in 1600.The anthology of Tudor poetry compiled by Robert Allott, a famous miscellany which showcases the best examples of the poetical styles of the era.This work was notable when first published in 1600 as Allott included excerpts of Shakespeare's poetry from his plays, namely 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Richard II', 'Richard III', 'Love's Labor's Lost', and 'Henry IV Part 1&apos.Other poets included in this anthology are Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Sackville, and more.Collated, this volume is bound without pages 185 to 626, presumably having been bound as a multi-volume set by a prior owner. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally, worn. Front hinge is strained. Loss of paper to the extremities. Rear joint is cracked. Some marks to the boards. Joints are a little faded. Spine label is rubbed and chipped. Loss to the head and tail of the spine. Front hinge is strained. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with scattered spotting. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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