Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry: re-published principally from early printed copies, in the black letter. In Two Volumes.

xviii, [2], 190, [2]pp; [6], 236pp, half titles. 8vo. A fine clean copy bound by Chambolle-Duru in elegant full crushed morocco, triple gilt fillet ruled border, ornate gilt panelled spines, floral devices, gilt dentelles. a.e.g. French binding house run by René Victor Chambolle, 1834-1898, and Hippolyte Duru, 1803-1884. The select pieces are, Syr Tryamour, Syr Isenbras, Syr Degore, Syr Gowghter, The Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous, The Schole House of Women, The Defence of Women, The Proude Wyues Pater Noster and The Wife Lapped in Morels Skin. Edward Vernon Utterson, 1776-1856, of Beldornie Tower, Isle of Wight, was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He practiced in the Court of Chancery, and in 1815 was appointed one of the six Clerks of Chancery, a post which he held until its abolition in 1842. All his life he was a talented amateur artist and a great collector of art and books. He set up his own private press, the Beldornie Press, at his house and edited a number of reprints of important English books. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 1807, and an original member of the Roxburghe Club, 1812.…