WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN. — A Cypress Grove. With an introduction and notes by Samuel Clegg.

Hawthornden Press, London, 1st Edition, First edition thus, limited to 1,000 numbered copies (this copy un-numbered) printed on handmade paper by Charles R. Butler for the Hawthornden Press and published by Chas. J. Sawyer. Slim 8vo. xvii, 77pp. Cloth-backed boards with a lettered paper title label to the upper board. Pasted portrait frontispiece. A nine-page introduction precedes a fifty-eight page prose work by the Scottish poet. Edges lightly spotted and with a touch of bruising to the backstrip ends. Binding a fraction tender at a single gathering. A very good copy in the lettered and ruled tissue dust wrapper, toned at the spine panel, with some creasing and half a dozen small areas of loss. Originally issued as an appendage to his fourth publication, 'Flowers of Sion' (1623), 'A Cypress Grove' was the only prose work to be published in the author's lifetime., Very Good, Fair