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The Poetical Works of George Herbert. With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.
POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE HERBERT
Edinburgh: James Nicholl, 1860.
8vo (8.75 x 5.75 inches). Full calf, with black label and black raised bands. Black pallets with gilt vine leaf centre tools. Blind ruled border framing a heavy blind tooled design. Blind dentelles, all edges red. Marbled endpapers.
A handsome Victorian theology binding. George Herbert (1593?1633) was clergyman and poet, who enjoyed a close friendship with John Donne and more recently influenced poets including T.S. Eliot and Seamus Heaney. His most important work is The Temple, an immensely popular collection of English devotional lyrics, some of which were later set to music by Purcell and Blow.
£120.00
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