Heleconia. Comprising A Selection of English Poetry of The Elizabethan Age: Written or Published Between 1575 and 1604.

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Three volumes. Quarto (30 x 23.5cm). The first & only printing of this collection of typographical reprints of scarce Elizabethan verse & published in an edition of 200 copies at £15 3s 6d. Park, the editor, was a noted collector of early English poetry, and 'edited many works of an important character, and assisted the leading antiquaries in their researches.' (DNB). The Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica catalogue was in fact his personal collection. Vol. I, pp. [vi],xii,200,[iv],22,[iv],238; Vol, II, pp. [vi],104,[xii],viii,[1],36,xviii,156,[vi],vi,62,[2],[ii],ii,[3],[viii],5,[3],[vi],xvi,90; Vol. III, pp. [xii],626,[x],4,[6]. Original publisher's boards, untrimmed edges, rebacked to style with labels, gilt. The first page of England's Parnassus in Vol. III with additional inserted proof sheet. With a contemporary engraved armorial bookplate. Heavy item may require additional postage for foreign order. Vg. [CBEL IV, 2705; Allibone 1500]. N° de ref. del artículo 11334

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