THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF ROBERT GREENE (1558-1592) to which is added his poems with some account of the author and notes by the Rev. ALEXANDER DYCE. 2 volumes.
Publisher: William Pickering, London, 1831. First edition.
Description: Full oasis niger Morocco binding, Green with gilt bands on the covers and raised bands with gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Gilt edges all around. Marbled endpapers with gilt stamped edges. Decorated title page.
Condition: Very good. Corners and edges lighty rubbed and bumped. Spine hinges on both volumes cracked and chipped. The cover of volume one is almost detached. Note in pencil on free endpaper noting full oasis Niger binding and on back endpaper number code and $300. Pages are clean and tight.
Pages: Vol I: 222, Vol II: 224
Size: 5" x 7.5"
Very nice copies of scarce edition.
Robert Greene (1558–1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance, widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare. Robert Greene was a popular Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer known for his negative critiques of his colleagues. He is said to have been born in Norwich. He attended Cambridge where he received a BA in 1580, and an M.A. in 1583 before moving to London, where he arguably became the first professional author in England. Greene was prolific and published in many genres including romances, plays and autobiography. Wikipedia.
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This book is from the estate of John Robert Gregg Jr. Born April 25, 1935 in Manhattan, N.Y. to John Robert Gregg, inventor of Gregg shorthand, and Janet Kinley Gregg, daughter of economist David Kinley, he worked briefly as an editor for the Sierra Club in San Francisco before moving to York, Maine in 1967, where he lived the rest of his life winter, spring and fall. He died in York in 2019. Summers he spent at his beloved cottage on the French River, Ontario.
His extensive collected library was supplemented by inherited collections from a number of allied families who lived in both Chicago and Manhattan. Subjects include Canadian and Arctic exploration, Inuits, American Revolutionary War; Novels and poetry by William Shakespeare, Keats and Shelley, Marlowe, Bierce, Douglas, as well as plays etc.
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