English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama.
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. vi, 696pp. Very good/very good. Gilt spine lettering a tad rubbed; mild jacket edgewear and age toning, with spine faintly age toned; small ownership signature on front pastedown. Item #48896
A wonderfully tight and attractive first edition, first printing, of Volume III in editors R.P. Wilson and Bonamy Dobree's "Oxford History of English Literature" series -- with four series titles marked as "Published" on rear jack panel and three marked as "Published" on inner flyleaf. From the collection of Frank S. Hanlin (1924-82, bibliographer and University of Iowa special collections director), with several small inked margin notations by him.
Price: $475.00