The Works Of Sir John Suckling Containing His Poems, Letters And Plays

Full contemporary calf, VG. viii+458+[ii]pp, 2 volumes bound as one with continuous pagination & a final errata leaf with publishers adverts on the verso. red morocco lettering piece, leather rubbed at the corners with a little loss, head of the spine snagged, both hinges cracked but holding well thanks to a professional repair to the endpaper gutters, old name crossed out in ink to the title, preliminary pages rather yellowed with some offsetting to the endpapers & pastedowns from the leather underneath, Ex Libris J Eyre, University College Oxford with their ownership signature ( plus their note '2 vol in 1' on the rear pastedown ), a nice copy. The collected works of the Cavalier poet Sir John Suckling [ 1609 - 1642 ]. Renowned for his wit & gambling at cards ( he is said to have been the inventor of Cribbage ), he was forced to leave England after plotting to bring the French to the aid of Charles I. He fled to France & ended his life with poison. The book contains his Poems, Letters of Eminet Persons, An Account of Religion by Reason, and the plays Aglaura, The Goblins, Brennoralt & The Sad One. 450 grams. …