English Reprints chiefly in Sixpenny or Shilling Volumes, edited by Edward Arber. 1868 Sammelband

An attractive nineteenth-century sammelband bringing together the first five titles in Edward Arber's English Reprints series, together with its First Prospectus of 1868. Conceived as inexpensive editions of earlier English literature, the series made important and sometimes inaccessible texts available to a wider readership. This collection combines religious preaching, travel narrative, literary criticism and Milton's argument against pre-publication licensing, offering a varied selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century prose., and published by Alex. Murray & Son, 1868. This sammelband comprises:

English Reprints chiefly in Sixpenny or Shilling Volumes, carefully edited by Edward Arber; First Prospectus, 1868; 

Sermon on The Ploughers, by Master Hugh Latimer, 1 February, 1868; 

The Schoole of Abuse, [August ?] 1579, and A Short Apologie of The Schoole of Abuse [November ?] 1579, by Stephen Gosson, 2 March, 1868; 

His Trauailes, 1590, by Edward Webbe, 1 May, 1868; 

An Apologie for Poetrie, 1595, by Sir Philip Sidney, 1 April, 1868; 

Areopagitica [24 November] 1644, preceded by Illustrative Documents, by John Milton, 1 January, 1868; 

Contains all five works announced in the accompanying First Prospectus.

Published by Alex. Murray & Son, London, 1968.

A good hardback with leather spine and corners, and marbled paper over boards. The leather and boards are bumped, scuffed and rubbed, with a worn area to the top right corner of the front cover. With matching marbled endpapers. The first free blank endpaper carries the ownership label of 'Adam G Williamson', along with his signature to the same page.

Text is generally clean with some age related wear and some light spotting to endpapers. Red tinted edges to text block.

Text in English. 

3pp + 40pp + 80pp + 40pp + 72pp + 80pp.

Dimensions: approximately 169mm high x 112mm wide x 19mm deep.

Weight: Approximately 298g (unpacked).