THE POEMS OF BISHOP HENRY KING.
Edited by John Sparrow. Pp. xxx+1989lasr blank)tall cr. 4to; bound by Best & Co, in full niger morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt compartments between raised bands; uncut, the top edges gilt on the rough; dentelles decorated in gilt (offset onto free endpapers), book label of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, a little light foxing; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925. Edition limited to 900 numbered copies. McKitterick 23. *This copy specially bound. (McKitterick describes most copies in full vegetable parchment and 'a few' in quarter linen with batik papered boards). Henry King (c. 1592-1669), whose father was the Bishop of London, became a Doctor of Divinity in 1625 and was appointed Bishop of Chichester in 1642. A year later he was forced out of office by Parliament but was reinstated after the Restoration in 1660. King was associated with Izaak Walton, Ben Jonson, and John Donne (whom his father had ordained), and his poems included elegies on Donne, Johnson, and Sir Walter Raleigh. Item #182200
Price: $750.00