Author: Abraham Cowley; John Sparrow [ed.]
Title: The Mistress with Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley 1618-1667
Description: London, The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Cloth. A limited edition poetical collection comprising the works of Abraham Cowley, one of the leading English poets of the seventeenth century. A limited edition of 1050 numbered copies on Dutch rag paper. This copy is number 283. In the publisher's original cloth binding.A pleasing collection of poems from English poet and essayist, Abraham Cowley. Includes his work 'The Mistress', which he completed during his twelve year in exile in France with Queen Henrietta Maria, a consequence of refusing to sign the Solemn League and Covenant of 1644. With a portrait of Cowley to the title page, drawn and engraved by John Hall from a painting from the collection of Horace Walpole. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. With marks to the boards and a couple chips to the spine label. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers, and the very odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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