The works of Michael Drayton /
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
Category
Books
Date
1931 - 1941
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3186643
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 v. : ports., double maps ; 24 cm. Pencil price note in v.4: 5 vols. 7½ gns. Loosely inserted: v.1: publisher’s printed review copy slip, with typescript price: £7/17/6 the set [insect damaged]; letterpress folder (8p.) 'The works of Michael Drayton, tercentenary edition ... notes concerning the text. With further review requests in subsequent volumes; v.4: press cutting review of the volume in Times literary supplement, August 31, 1933 [torn in 2]. Pencil text marking, with rear endpaper page references, (mostly v.2). Provenance: pastedown inscribed [v.1]: "V.N. / Long Barn Jan. 1932" [i.e. Vita [Sackville-West] Nicolson, 1892-1962]; [v.2-3] "July 1932". Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine, gold stamped cover armorial and initials.
Makers and roles
Michael Drayton (1563-1631) John William Hebel (1891-1934) Kathleen Tillotson (1906-2001) Bernard Henry Newdigate (1869-1944)