The Poems of Richard Lovelace (2 volumes, complete). Cet article n’est pas disponible.The Poems of Richard Lovelace (2 volumes, complete)

1925. First edition limited to 400 copies - 2 volumes (complete). lxxxix, [i], 143pp. and 9 plates; viii plus 2 illustrations, 227pp. and 7 plates. There is a spare paper title label at the end of both volumes. Richard Lovelace (1617-1657) was an English poet who fought on behalf of Charles I during the English Civil War. His best known works are "To Althea, from Prison", and "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres". This is a scholarly edition of his poems, with an authoritative text, an introduction, and commentary notes. The editor is Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888–1960), a Fellow of Worcester College. The first volumes consists of the introduction, notes and appendices, and the second volume contains the poems. The two volumes are uniformly bound in the original grey paper covered boards and cloth spines with paper title labels. The cases of the books are in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling on the boards and spines and the spines are browned with wear to the title labels. Volume 1 has a faint stain running down the front board and volume 2 has a red stain near the fore edge of the front board and some lifting to a layer of the paper covering the board near the bottom edge. The rear board of volume 2 has some more noticeable lifting to some of the paper near the bottom edge and top of the spine edge. The contents are tight and clean with a small stain on the bottom corner of the first few pages of volume 1. Many of the pages of volume 1 remaining unseparated along the top edge. There is no inscription. PLEASE NOTE: This is a heavy set and extra postage will apply to non-UK customers.…