The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of Four Centuries.

PALGRAVE, Francis T.

$300.00

Item Number: 111084

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889.

First trade edition of Palgrave’s treasury of the lyrical poems of the finest English poets. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-stamped half vellum, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. In near find condition. Ownership inscription.

British critic, anthologist and poet Palgrave published both criticism and poetry, but his work as a critic was by far the more important. His Treasury of Sacred Song includes a selection of hymns from England's finest poems including Edmund Spenser, George Herbert, Henry More, Robert Burns, Christina G. Rossetti, John Sharp, and Alfred Lord Tennyson among others.