Poems by Michael Drayton Esquyer. Newly Corrected and Augmented
London: Printed for John Smethwicke, 1637. Revised edition. 8vo, 487pp. Lacking engraved and general title, begins with Heroicall Epistles title leaf [H4], and complete after. Final two leaves trimmed shorter, perhaps borrowed from an earlier edition. Full brown morocco with gilt titled spine. H4 repaired along top edge, text generally clean and very good.
Early posthumous collected edition of Michael Drayton’s Poems containing his most celebrated work, England’s Heroicall Epistles, first issued in 1597. Modeled on Ovid’s Heroides, the sequence reimagines famous English historical figures through paired verse letters, blending courtly love and national history in one of the defining poetic experiments of the Elizabethan age. Item #9735
Price: $750.00