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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Orig. tan cloth. x, 196 pp. Dust jacket is bumped to extremities, rubbed, a few short tears, offset panel to rear. The Civil War is a poem which Abraham Crowley (1618-67) did not complete, for political and historical reasons, and of which only the first volume was published; the other two volumes have been considered irrecoverably lost since his death. Professor Pritchard recently found two copies of the complete poem in a collection of family papers at the Hertfordshire County Record Office and here presents a corrected edition of the first and previously published book, and the text of the hitherto unpublished books two and three. Professor Pritchard provides a discussion of the personal, historical, and literary contexts of the poem in the introduction, as well as of textual problems and methods, showing the way in which the poem is shaped both by contemporary history and polemics and by classical and later literary tradition.…