The Origins of English Nonsense. Hardcover - 1997

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 1997 * Publisher: Harper Collins. * Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards, silver title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper showing two people dancing in fools costumes. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £18.00. Maroon titles to spine and silver titles in maroon blocks on silver ground to face. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear un-attached protective cover. FINE * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end-papers (maroon). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, neat note in pencil to rear paste-down, top & fore edges minimally age darkened. No other visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 294 pp. text. xli pp. Manuscript. sources, bibliography, indices & blank pages at rear.* Description: This book contains what may well be the first full discussion of a literary movement in the seventeenth century. It falls between the major works of Shakespeare and Milton. The purpose of this volume is to make known a genre which enjoyed real popularity in precisely that period, and which has never been discussed in any major detail.* A FINE copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with only minimal faults. Now in clear un-attached protective dust jacket.*