ANTHONY MUNDAY AND THE CATHOLICS, 1560-1633

First edition, first printing. Review copy, with the publisher's review slip loosely laid in. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With a black and white frontispiece and six black and white illustrations throughout. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt fresh. The contents, with some light pencil marginalia to the first chapter and a small pencilled notation to the verso of the review slip by previous owner Dr Richard Rowland, are otherwise clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. The closed text block has a couple of light finger marks to the fore-edge. Complete with the near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper, which has just a little toning to the rear panel, and is otherwise without loss or tears.

From the library of (and with pencilled marginalia of) Dr Richard Rowland, editor and author on the Renaissance and classical mythology, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. 'In [the book], Hamilton reinterprets Munday as a writer who began his career writing on behalf of the Catholic cause and subsequently negotiated for several decades the difficult terrain of an ever-changing Catholic-Protestant cultural, religious, and political landscape. She argues that throughout his life and writing career Munday retained his Catholic sensibility and occasionally wrote dangerously on behalf of Catholics. Thus he serves as an excellent case study through which present-day scholars can come to a fuller understanding of how a person living in this turbulent time in English history [...] managed a long and prolific writing career at the centre of court, theatre, and city activities but in ways that reveal his commitment to Catholic political and religious ideology' (publisher's blurb).