(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905, 1906, 1921).

An exquisite and handsomely bound set of this excellent collection of post-Elizabethan verse. Volume I contains Chamberlayne's "Pharonnida" and "England's Jubilee"; Benlowe's "Theophila"; and the poems of Katherine Phillips and Patrick Hannay. The second volume includes Marmion's "Cupid and Psyche"; Kynaston's "Leoline and Sydanis" and his "Cynthiades"; the poems of John Hall, Sidney Godolphin and Philip Ayres; Chalkhill's "Thealma and Clearchus"; the poems of Patrick Carey and William Hammond; Bosworth's "Arcadius and Sepha"; and others. Volume III contains the work of John Cleveland, Thomas Stanley, Henry King, Thomas Flatman, and Nathaniel Whiting. Includes facsimile title-pages for the various works. Item #25521

3 volumes. 8vo, luxuriously bound in full tan morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, lettered and decorated with skillfully accomplished borders of gilt and black in panels of spines enclosing small gilt ornament, covers decorated with a frame of a black enclosed within gilt fillet border, with gilt ornaments at corners, gilt ruled turn-ins, a.e.g. xviii, 726; viii, 611; ix, 582 pp. A fine set.