Thomas Randolph
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, for the British Academy, 1927. First Editon. Octavo, 45 pages, publisher's original green cloth covered boards with pastedown label to top board. G. C. Moore Smith’s Thomas Randolph is a scholarly study of the seventeenth-century English poet and dramatist Thomas Randolph, a younger contemporary of Ben Jonson and one of the notable “Sons of Ben.” Published for the British Academy, the work examines Randolph’s life, literary reputation, dramatic writings, poems, and place within the Jacobean and Caroline literary world. This copy is especially attractive as an association copy, bearing the bookplate of Cyrus Lawrence Day (1900–1968), University of Delaware professor and author of Thomas Randolph and “The Drinking Academy” (1928), making it a directly relevant scholarly provenance connected to Randolph studies and early modern English literary attribution. A nice copy for collectors of seventeenth-century drama, Ben Jonson’s circle, British Academy publications, and Renaissance literary scholarship. Some slight rubbing and wear, some discoloration to the cloth, hinges seem a little weak, else in very good condition. Item #313
Price: $100.00