Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (1579)
and Euphues and his England (1580), published 1868 in Arber's English Reprint series
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Printing Details
First edition thus. Hardback, rebound in half-leather with green moire covered boards. Five raised bands and contrasting title label to spine. Page edges decorated with speckled dye. 17 × 10.5cm, 478pp.
Euphues is Roger Lyly's didactic romance told in letters interspersed with general discussions on such topics as religion, love, and epistolary style, the author adopted the name from Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster, which describes Euphues as a type of student who is "apte by goodness of witte, and appliable by readiness of will, to learning, hauving all other qualities of the mind and parts of the body, that must an other day serue learning, not troubled, mangled, and halfed, but sound, whole, full & able to do their office". Euphues and his England was written as a sequel a year later.
Edward Arber was a scholarly editor and his English Reprints series (1868–1871) ran to thirty books which made available sixteenth and seventeenth century texts which had only been accessible by looking at original and early printed copies.
Condition
This copy is in very good condition. The rebinding has been done to a very high standard and includes new endpapers. There is some very light scuffing to the corners and there is some heavy foxing to the top of the last ten pages. Otherwise this copy remains in strong readable condition.
Price
£40.00
