Percy Bishop Thomas Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Cloth backed boards, front cover label. No. 10 of 105 copies. Inscribed by printers. Uncut page edges. Illustrations. From the Preface: The author was born in 1729, attended Christ Church College and was appointed to several small parishes in Northampton. "Percy's contribution to English letters was important to the expanding literary climate of 18th century England. He published numerous translations, including a Chinese novel & Celtic & Nordic prose. Historically, his most famous work was a collection of 16th century anonymous poems, which he compiled and edited from an ancient manuscript found beneath a cabinet in the home of Humphrey Pitt dating from about 1660". Contents include: Walking in a Meadowe Greene; Off a Puritane; A Maid and a Younge Man; I Dreamed My Love; etc. …

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. A New Edition, Edited, with Additional Notes. pp. xxxvi, 452, (viii) of adverts. 8vo. Quarter cloth, boards, spine slightly darkened. Top edge gilt. 3rd edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not called for>. 1st Edition Thus. Original quarter white buckram with paper title label. Top edge gilt. Some shelf wear to boards. Preliminaries toned. Internally clean. Eight pages of publishers catalogue at rear. Scarce.