Abraham Cowley — The Mistress with Other Selected Poems

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Cloth. A bright limited edition copy of this anthology of poems by Abraham Cowley. Abraham Cowley was a leading poet in seventeenth-century England, authoring fourteen Works in the span of fifty-three years. The present copy is an anthology of his poems, published in a limited edition of one-thousand-and-fifty copies on Dutch rag paper, this out of series. Edited by John Sparrow. Containing songs, satirical lyrics, anacreontiques, miscellaneous, odes, and 'The Mistress.'  In the original publisher's full cloth binding, titles on calf label to spine. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, spine and boards bumped to extremities, general light soiling, darkening to back-strip, title label slightly chipped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .