THE POETICAL WORKS OF SIR JOHN DENHAM

Second edition. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a little bumping to the tail of the spine. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, which is faded to the edges and spine. Not price-clipped ($8.50 to the lower front flap).

A comprehensive collection of original poems, political speeches, elegies and eulogies, translations, and 'The Sophy' by Sir John Denham (c.1614-1669), an Anglo-Irish poet and courtier. The compilation was first published in 1928 by Yale University Press. This second edition incorporates eleven new poems into Appendix A, helping to complete the Denham canon; includes a revision of pp. 50-53, which deal with the editions of Cooper's Hill and possible sources for the "Thames couplets"; and adds two tables of errata and addenda.