ENGLAND'S HELICON: 1600, 1614 by Rollins, Hyder Edward, edited - 1935

Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Red boards with gold lettering on the spine. Lightly bumped at the spine tips and the bottom front corner. Lightly rubbed. Strong hinges. Clean pages. Previous owner's name on the front pastedown. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1927.

Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press. Near Fine. 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "Hyder Edward Rollins (8 November 1889 – 25 July 1958) was an American scholar and English professor. He was a prolific author of articles and books on Elizabethan poetry, broadside ballads, and Romantic poets. He was an internationally recognized scholar on John Keats, and he edited the authoritative two-volume edition of Keats' letters." "Anthony Wood was an Oxford resident who collected contemporary ballads from an early age: his collection covers many subjects and dates from the period from about 1640 until his death. A historian of the City and University of Oxford, he annotated many of the ballads in his collection with the date of his purchase and sometimes with commentaries on the historical events… Read More

Cambridge,Mass: Harvard University Press 1969 reissue of 1927 edition. hard cover, light brown cloth, no dust jacket, 270pp including index of names and subjects, index of titles and first lines,refrains and tunes, black and white line illustrations, previous owner's stamp to half-title page and bookplate and name to front pastedown, all in very good clean and unmarked condition. SBN 674651251

Harvard University Press, 1927. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 268 pages. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page shows 1927 as the published date. This is definitely Not a former library book. The price has been clipped from the DJ flap. The dust jacket is about 99% intact with light chipping on the corners and spine edges, light soiling and there is a short (one-inch) closed tear on the bottom of the back. I have placed the DJ in a fresh mylar jacket and this old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1928. 7.25" wide by 10.5" tall. Near Fine condition (spine lightly faded). No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, and tight. Pages are fresh and crisp, many still unopened. Top edge gilt. Includes poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; Sir Thomas Wyatt; Nicholas Grimald; et al. Appendices: Variant Readings and Misprints. Variations from A and B in Arber's Reprint (1870). Index of First Lines. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Original rust-colored cloth/No Dust Jacket. xix, 345pp. .

Cambridge University Press, 2012. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 460 pages. 8.90x1.26x5.98 inches.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Spine slightly faded, else fine and mostly unopened. lxix, 298 pp;, 9 full-page illustrations; quarto, blue cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt. The first detailed study of this popular late 16th century literary miscellany which saw 10 editions published between 1576-1606. Only 9 of these survive and the illustrations here include reproductions of the title pages of all of them.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Fine. 1935. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 2 vols. 227 & 241 pp.; 8vo; brick red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Volume one facsimile title page; volume two with six facsimiles of title pages, specimens, autographs. "England's Helicon, one of the most beautiful of the Elizabethan poetical miscellanies and most distinguished from the point of view of of authorship, appeared in 1600." Volume one contains the the poems as well as variant readings and misprints, with an index of first lines. Some of the sweetest and most lyrical poems of the Elizabethan age where Shepherds and their Flocks abound, bounding over Arcadian fields. Volume two focuses on the history of various editions re-issued over the years from 17 century to modern, including studies of authors and editorial methods. .

CAMBRIDGE: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1927 Book. Very Good (+) Book. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Blue cover with gilt title and gilt top edge. Nice cover with a solid binding and just a light spine shift, and original bookplate at front endpaper. Jacket has several small chips along edge, a long tear and a stain at the fore edge and it has a protective cover. About 10-1/2 x 7 with 298 pages. Scarce with jacket!.