Description

Small volume, red paper covered boards with title lettered in gold on spine. Lacks slipcase. 125pp. Pages untrimmed, printed on laid paper. Number 254 of 430 copies printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin & Company. Reprinted from the 1680 edition of Quarles “Divine Poems”, which offeres a more consistent and a slightly more modern text than the original edition of the Sonets published in quarto in 1625. Some light finger soiling to covers and verso of page opposite title. No name, no book-plate, etc. A very good copy.