The Poems of Thomas Pestell.

Pestell (Thomas)

The Poems of Thomas Pestell.

Edited with an Account of His Life and Work by Hannah Buchan.

Description: FIRST EDITION, a few faint spots to page-borders, pp. lvi, 146, 8vo, original dark blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed with a few faint spots to these and endpapers, pencilled gift inscription at head of flyleaf ('Queen Maryad from Lloyd-Johnes, Jul. '62'), dustjacket lightly chipped at extremities with a couple of very faint spots, very good

Publication Details: Oxford: (Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for) Basil Blackwell, 1940

Notes: Uncommon. A major scholarly edition of the Leicestershire clergyman and Renaissance poet, a contemporary of Beaumont and Donne – and a 'controversial figure, capable of arrogance and even violence' (ODNB). The Editor was a Tutor at the University of Glasgow; in her Preface she acknowledges the help of C.S. Lewis of Magdalen College, Oxford, for giving 'various suggestions'.

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