1893 Pair of The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, Edited by George Saintsbury, Complete in two volumes. These were published in London by George Bell & Sons and they have a binders stamp on the inside cover that says Bound By Mudie. Both books have a vellum spine and corners… which makes them very durable! They also have a blue board cover & deckled edge. They are in excellent condition for their age.
✨Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. Herrick wrote over 2,500 poems, about half of which appear in his major work, Hesperides. Hesperides also includes the much shorter Noble Numbers, his first book of spiritual works, first published in 1648. He is well known for his style, and in his earlier works for frequent references to lovemaking and the female body. His later poetry was of a more spiritual and philosophical nature. He sets out his subject-matter in the poem he printed at the beginning of his collection, “The Argument of his Book”. He dealt with English country life and its seasons, village customs, complimentary poems to various ladies and his friends, themes taken from classical writings, and a solid bedrock of Christian faith, not intellectualized but underpinning the rest. It has been said of Herrick’s style that “his directness of speech with clear and simple presentation of thought, a fine artist working with conscious knowledge of his art, of an England of his youth in which he lives and moves and loves, clearly assigns him to the first place as a lyrical poet in the strict and pure sense of the phrase.”
