An English Garner. [Ingatherings from our History and Literature. COMPLETE SET OF THE BEST EDITION

12 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus and Best Edition, on laid paper, some endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of dark blue cloth, gilt backs, gilt tops (save Beazley), uncut, a very good, bright, firm set. Ten volumes have a uniform pictorial personal bookplate on front paste-down, two volumes have the fine armorial bookplate of the Signet Library [Edinburgh].This valuable compilation of tracts, poetry, prose and other contemporary documents was first assembled under the editorship of Edward Arber and published in eight volumes between 1877 and 1896. Here the entire collection is reissued in greatly expanded form, rearranged and reclassified under the general editorship of Thomas Seccombe. There is much new material and the series as a whole benefits from fresh critical apparatus from some of the finest scholars of the day. The collection comprises: Aitken (G.A). Later Stuart Tracts (1903); Beazley (C.R). Voyages and Travels mainly during the 16th and 17th Centuries (2 vols) (1903); Bullen (A.H). Shorter Elizabethan Poems (1903); Bullen (A.H). Some Longer Elizabethan Poems (1903); Collins (J.C). Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903); Firth (C.H). Stuart Tracts 1603-1693 (1903); Lang (A). Social England Illustrated. A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts (1903); Lee (S). Elizabethan Sonnets, newly arranged and indexed (2 vols; 1904); Pollard (A.F). Tudor Tracts 1532-1588 (1903); Pollard (A.W). Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse (1903). Scarce as a set, especially in this condition.