Author: Rev. Alexander Dyce
Title: The Works of George Peele in Three Volumes
Description: London , William Pickering, 1829. Leather. An attractive set of The Works of George Peele collected and edited, with some account of his life and his writings by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. Complete in three volumes. Second edition with additions in two volumes, and including the third volume which was published some ten years later. There is a fine fold-out letter to page XVI of volume I. George Peele (baptised 25 July 1556 – buried 9 November 1596) was an English dramatist. Peele belonged to the group of university scholars who, in Greene's phrase, "spent their wits in making playes." Greene went on to say that he was "in some things rarer, in nothing inferior," to Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe. This praise was not unfounded. The credit given to Greene and Marlowe for the increased dignity of English dramatic diction, and for the new smoothness infused into blank verse, must certainly be shared by Peele. The most familiar parts of Peele's work are, however, the delightful songs in his plays—from The Old Wives' Tale and The Arraignment of Paris, and the song A Farewell to Arms—which are regularly anthologised. In calf leather bindings with double ruled gilt edge, and gilt lettering to the spine. Externally, smart with just slight rubbing. Internally, generally firmly bound. Hinges on all volumes are slightly strained but firm. Pages are generally bright and clean. There are two bookplates to the front pastedown, and recto of front free end papers in all volumes. There are also bookseller's stamps to the rear pastedown in all volumes. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Alexander Dyce Pickering George Peele Fold Out Letter Pickering None


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