(Arber, Edward; Editor). (Caxton, William; Knox, John; Robinson, Clement; Fish, Simon; Udall, The Rev. John; Decker, Thomas).

The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works. Edited By Edward Arber. (9 Issues Bound in One Volume, Comprising Numbers 1 Through 9 in This Series, Which Includes "the History of Reynard the Fox"; "the First Blast of the Trumpet Against the...

      London: Edward Arber, at Southgate, 1878-1880. -Octavo, nine books bound together into one volume. Bound in brown cloth by J.P. Gray & Son, titled in gilt on the spine with the titles to each of the books penned in holograph on an early paper label mounted on the spine. The covers are rubbed and soiled with a small hole to the cloth of the spine. 822 pages, with the title pages printed in 2 colors and with decorative head and tail pieces and initials throughout. The original light blue-green printed wraps of all 9 books are bound in at the end. There is some spotting to the edges of the book with offsetting and darkening to the endpapers. An internally very good run of the first 9 volumes of this series. Includes: "The History of Reynard the Fox. Translated and Printed by William Caxton. June, 1481. "; xvi & 120 pages. John Knox's "The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women. 1558. " xviii & 62 pages. Clement Robinson and divers others "A Handful of Pleasant Delights, Containing sundry new Sonnets and delectable Histories in divers kinds of metre &c. 1584. " xvi & 64 pages. Simon Fish's "A Supplication for the Beggars. [Spring of 1529]. " xviii & 14 pages. [Rev. John Udall] "The State of the Church of England laid open in a Conference between Diotrephes a Bishop, Tertullus a Papist, Demetrius a Usurer, Pandochus an Innkeeper, and Paul a Preacher of the word of God. [April 1588]. " xiv & 34 pages. "The Return from Parnassus or the Scourge of Simony. Publicly acted by the Students of Saint John's College in Cambridge. [In January 1602. Printed] 1606. " xvi & 72 pages. Thomas Decker's "The Seven deadly Sins of London drawn in seven several coaches, through the seven several gates of the City; bringing the plague with them. [October] 1606. " xii & 50 pages. "An Introductory Sketch to the Martin Marprelate Controversy. 1588-1590. " 200 pages. [Rev. John Udall] "A Demonstration of the truth of that Discipline, which Christ hath prescribed in His Word, for the government of his Church, in...