The Poetical Decameron, or Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry, particularly of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.
Edinburgh: printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 1820.
Two vols., sm. 8vo, xlv, (i), 336; (ii), 353 pp., half-titles present. Early half green morocco, marbled boards, gilt tops, backstrips faded as usual, minor scuffing to the leather, internally a very fine copy. Bookplate with monogram IIS in each volume.
§ First edition. Collier's second proper book, in which he wrote of many of the lesser known Elizabethan poets. Also contains two mentions (vol. 2, pp. 80 and 85) of Thomas Frognall Dibdin, whose Bibliographical Decameron had appeared three years earlier and with whose work Collier was clearly familiar. CBEL3, IV, 2682; Freeman and Freeman, John Payne Collier, A3. Item #124390
Price: $300.00