THE FOLIO GOLDEN TREASURY
Written by James Michie, et al
Illustrated by Simon Brett, et al.
Published by Folio Society
in 1997
- Categorised in:
- FOLIO SOCIETY
- LEATHER BINDING
- WOOD ENGRAVINGS
- SONGS
- PERFORMING ARTS
- POETRY
THE FOLIO GOLDEN TREASURY
Written by James Michie, et al.
Illustrated by Simon Brett, et al..
Stock no. 1830569
1st thus.
1997.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
The Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in English Language chosen and introduced by James Michie. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by various artists selected by Simon Brett. Leather spine with gilt titles. Yellow cloth boards with repeating pattern. B/w wood engravings. 733 pages including index. Top edge yellow. Tiny fox-spots to text block, not affecting contents. Last few pages have been miscut by binder so top corner of page is folded in a crease. Else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed and marked.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- Editor's Note
- The Wood Engravings
- THOMAS WYATT (c. 1503-42)
- Engraving by Derrick Harris
- 1 Throughout the world, if it were sought
- 2 My lute awake! perform the last
- 3 Madam, withouten many words
- 4 They flee from me, that sometime did me seek
- 5 Forget not yet the tried intent
- ANONYMOUS (?)
- Engraving by Norman Janes
- 6 Western wind, when will thou blow
- NICHOLAS UDALL (1505-56)
- 7 Whoso to marry a minion wife
- HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517-47)
- Engraving by Richard Shirley Smith
- 8 My friend, the things that do attain
- 9 Laid in my quiet bed, in study as I were
- GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1525-77)
- Engraving by Douglas Percy Bliss
- 10 And if I did, what then?
- 11 Sing lullaby, as women do
- JASPER HEYWOOD (1535-98)
- 12 If thou in surety safe wilt sit
- EDARD DYER (1543-1607)
- 13 The lowest tree tops, the an her gall
- EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD (1550-1604)
- Engraving by Norman Janes
- 14 Were I a King I could command content
- 15 If women could be fair, and yet not fond
- SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552-1618)
- Engravings by Simon Brett
- 16 To His Son
- 17 As you came from the holy land
- 18 The Lie
- 19 Even such is time, which takes in trust
- EDMUND SPENSER (1552-99)
- Engravings by John Biggs, with the exception of two swans by Joan Hassall
- 20 Prothalamion
- 21 Epithalamion
- ANONYMOUS (?)
- Engraving by Simon Brett
- 22 The passionate Mans Pilgrimage
- 23 He that marris a merry lass
- FULKE GREVILLE (1554-1628)
- Engraving by Frank Martin
- 24 Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage
- 25 Oh, wearisome condition of humanity
- PHI8LIP SYDNEY (1554-86)
- Portrait by Peter Reddick
- 26 Only joy, now here you are
- 27 Loving in truth and fain in verse my love to show
- 28 With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!
- Engraving by Peter Reddick
- 29 Get hence foul Grief, the canker of the mind
- Engraving by Harry Brockway
- 30 My true love hath my heart, and I have his
- Engravings by Harry Brockway
- JOHN LYLY (1554-1606)
- Engravings by Marjorie Taylor