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[ENGLISH POETRY]. Bibliographia poetica: a catalogue of engleish poets, of the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth, centuries, with a short account of their works.

London. Printed by C. Roworth, 1802.
8vo. [2], ii, 407, [2], 400*-402*pp. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, recent book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, scattered spotting.
A rare edition of this Bibliographia poetica, a catalogue of early English poets spanning the twelfth to sixteenth centuries.

From the recently dispersed library of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.

OCLC and COPAC together record a single copy (St. Andrew's).
£ 125.00 Antiquates Ref: 20761