1876-1897 A Collection from The Library of Old Authors

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Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Thirteen volumes. The Library of Old Authors series. This set contains: The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, 1876. Complete in three volumes, with a portrait frontispiece to volume one. Being the collected works of Michael Drayton, an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era noted for his historical works. With introductions and notes by the Reverend Richard Hooper. The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, 1887. Complete in two volumes, with a folding frontispiece to volume one. A Middle English allegorical narrative poem presumed to be written by William Langland, though little is known of his life. Edited from a contemporary manuscript with a historical introduction, notes, and a glossary from Thomas Wright, an English writer, scholar, and antiquarian who was a prolific editor of medieval texts. The Poetical Works of William Drummond Of Hawthornden, 1890. With a portrait frontispiece. The collected poetry of William Drummond, often called "of Hawthornden", a Scottish poet born at Hawthornden Castle, Midlothian. Edited by William Barclay David Donald Turnbull, a Scottish antiquary and archivist. Remarkable Providences Illustrative of the Earlier Days of American Colonisation, 1890. With a portrait frontispiece. Written by Increase Mather, a New England Puritan clergyman who served as the sixth president of Harvard College. During his tenure, which coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials, he was influential in the administration of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. With an introductory preface from George Offor, an English book-collector. Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick, 1890. Complete in two volumes, with a portrait frontispiece to volume one. A collection of the poetry of Robert Herrick, an English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt, an English lawyer, bibliographer, editor and writer. The Table-Talk of John Selden, 1890. With a portrait frontispiece. The best known work of John Selden, an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, scholar of Jewish law, and polymath. With a biographical preface and notes by Samuel Weller Singer, an English author and scholar. The Poems, Plays, and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling, 1892. Complete in two volumes, with a portrait frontispiece to volume one. A collection of the works of Sir John Suckling, an English cavalier poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit. He also invented the card game cribbage. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt. Lucasta: The Poems of Richard Lovelace, Esq., 1897. With a portrait frontispiece. The collected poetry of Richard Lovelace, an English cavalier poet. Edited and revised with some account of the author and notes by William Carew Hazlitt.