Getting books in the mail is always exciting, even if I mailed them myself. [A lot of times I’ll find a book or a few books on a trip and to avoid any untimely delay in customs I’ll mail them to myself, other times I’ll carry the books and mail my clothes] Today the USPS brought me two books!

The other book is another copy of Winstanley’s The Lives Of the most Famous English Poets, Or The Honour of Parnassus; In a Brief Essay Of The Works and Writings of above Two Hundred of them, from the Time of K. William the Conqueror, To the Reign of His Present Majesty King James II. The last copy I had, (april 10th, http://wp.me/p3kzOR-xr ) sold to a university with a very important collection of books relating to Shakespeare. Like the other copy this one has the very rare frontis.
327G Winstanley, William. 1628?-1690?
The Lives Of the most Famous English Poets, Or The Honour of Parnassus; In a Brief Essay Of The Works and Writings of above Two Hundred of them, from the Time of K. William the Conqueror, To the Reign of His Present Majesty King James II.
London: Printed by H. Clark, for Samuel Manship at the Sign of the Black Bull in Cornhil, 1687 $3,300
Octavo, 6.5 x 4 in. First edition. π1,A8, a4, B-O8 , P6 . This copy has the portrait frontispiece which is quite often lacking. This book is bound in seventeenth century full calf recently rebacked.. Wing W-3065; Grolier, W-P #1004.
The description of the contents of the other copy of course applies, so I will take up some space and give images of Winstanley’s biography of Donne.

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