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 being #837) 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. A touch of light wear to several extremities, and a sliver of fading to the lower corner of the upper board. Most leaves uncut at the upper edge. An excellent unopened copy in very good dust wrapper. 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, Very Good