Fragmentia Regalia (1630)

by Sir Robert Naunton, bound with Thomas Watson's poems

Author

Sir Robert Naunton, and Thomas Watson, edited by Edward Arber

Publisher

Printed for the Author, London, 1870

Printing Details

First edition thus. Small hardback, rebound in half-leather with green moire covered boards. Five raised bands and contrasting title label to spine. Page edges decorated with speckled dye. 17 × 10.5cm. 64pp, 282pp.

Published in Arber's English Reprints series. Two titles bound into one. This contains firstly Sir Robert Naunton's Fragmentia Regalia, written about 1630 and reprinted from the third edition of 1653, being observations of Queen Elizabeth I, her times and favourites. And also the poems of Thomas Watson, Elizabethan poet and pioneer of the madrigal, containing: the Hekatompathia or Passionate Centurie of Love; Meliboeus, sive Ecloga Inobitum; An Eglogue upon he death of Right; and The Tears of Fancy or Love difdained.

Condition

Very good condition for age. Some light rubbing and surface wear to leather corners, light spotted foxing to prelims but remaining in strong readable condition.

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