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SAYERS, F[rank]. Poetical works...

Norwich. Printed & published by S. Wilkin, 1830. First edition.
8vo. [6], xcvii, [9], 275pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's cloth-backed buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Armorial bookplate of Henry Birkbeck to FEP, scattered spotting.
A posthumously published collection of the poetry of scholar Frank Sayers (1763-1817), including the series of dramas on Nordic themes that made his name as a poet, 'Moina', 'Starno', and 'The Descent of Freya'.

Jackson p.555.
£ 100.00 Antiquates Ref: 29265