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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Abraham Cowley was one of the leading poets of the 17th century and also wrote extensively in prose. This collection of his essays and other prose works includes his influential essay 'Of Agriculture' along with his reflections on the poetic imagination, literary criticism, and social and political issues of his day. This edition also includes an introduction by Thomas Sprat, Cowley's contemporary and fellow writer.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Abraham Cowley was one of the leading poets of the 17th century and also wrote extensively in prose. This collection of his essays and other prose works includes his influential essay 'Of Agriculture' along with his reflections on the poetic imagination, literary criticism, and social and political issues of his day. This edition also includes an introduction by Thomas Sprat, Cowley's contemporary and fellow writer.

Zustand: Very Good. No jacket. First Edition. 1st, Limited and Numbered Edition 402 of 1050 to final leaf, Nonesuch 1926. 4to. xx 213pp. Steel engraved vignette portrait to title page. Printed on thick creamy Dutch Rag paper with wide margins in Bodoni Type. Internally very good clean tight sound square, attractive scrolled armorial bookplate of John Richard Sofio to pastedown, with ownership inscription of J. Stuart Williams upon, browning limited to free endpapers not intruding or detracting, edges of leaves attractively untrimmed. Bound in original full wide weave brown cloth, with bright gilt text on red calf leather label. Abraham Cowley was a leading poet of the 17th century, indeed Milton held that Cowley, Spenser and Shakespeare were the three best English poets. Nonesuch Press, publishers of the volume in hand, were unusual amongst private press, in that it used a small Albion Hand Press to exquisitely design and produce books which were then commercially printed, since the owner Francis Meynell wanted to demonstrate that Mechanical means could be made to serve fine ends.