The Works of Thomas Nashe, complete in five volumes by Nashe, Thomas; Ronald B. McKerrow, ed.; F.P. Wilson, ed - 1958

Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1958, 1958. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Preface to this 1958 Reprint Edition, penned by F.P. Wilson, notes that "R.B. McKerrow's edition of Nashe was published in five volumes: the three volumes of text in 1904-1905, the commentary (IV) in 1908, and the Introduction and Index (V)--at first intended for volume IV--in 1910." Wilson notes that McKerrow's rehabilitation of the works of Thomas Nashe, the 16th-century Renaissance man, set new standards of both editing and biography. That edition, Wilson notes, "has long been recognized as one of the greatest of any English writer and an essential work of reference for students of Elizabethan life, language, and literature." Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copies, complete in five volumes, clean, unmarked interiors, with minimal rubbing to extremities. Sans dust jackets. Bound simply in publisher's green cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spines. A bit of sunning to edges, spines. Thomas Nashe (1567 – 1601), sometimes spelled "Nash," was an important, influential Elizabethan-era man of letters, a poet, a dramatist, and a political activist and pamphleteer for various causes, especially the Church of England; both McKerrow's and Wilson's homages are cleareyedly hagiographic, noting his broad learning and polymath abilities. Includes facsimile title pages to works known or rumored to have been penned by him, including reviews, Forewords, Prefaces, and Introductions. Volume I: xvi [1], 2-386 pp.; Volume II: frontis matter [1], 2-397 pp.; Volume III: frontis matter [1], 2-416 pp.; Volume IV: frontis matter [1], 2-484 pp.; Volume V: ix [3], 2-369 pp. including index, then a Supplement to McKerrow's Edition of Nashe (84 pp.).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.