Early Poems of Daniel and Drayton. Edited by John Payne Collier

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Only volume of the “Purple Series,” reprints in 8vo. edited by John Payne Collier. Each piece is paged separately, and, except for ‘The complaint of Rosamond,’ Collier designed the reprints as a typographical facsimiles. Contains: S. Daniel, Delia. Contayning certayne Sonnets: with the complaint of Rosamond. London, Printed by I. C. for Simon Waterson, 1592, 1599 [1869], pp. ii, [100]. (Fr# 1078, Purple Series, no. 1) S. Daniel, J. P. Collier, The complaint of Rosamond. By Samuel Daniel. An exact reproduction of the earliest known edition: under the care of J. Payne Collier. London, For private circulation only, 1870, ff. [2], pp. [36]. (Fr# 1082, Purple Series, no. 3) M. Drayton, Idea The shepheards garland, Fashioned in nine Eglogs. Rowlands sacrifice to the nine Muses. London, Imprinted […] for Thomas Woodcocke, 1593 [1870], pp. 2, [4], 70. (Fr# 1081, Purple Series, no. 2) M. Drayton, Endimion and Phœbe. Ideas latmus. London, Printed by James Roberts for John Busbie, [1595] [1870], pp. ii, [50]. (Fr# 1083, Purple Series, no. 4) See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, p. 956, A169, A172-A174. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.