Thomas Beedome — Select Poems Divine and Humane

Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Vellum. Limited edition of a selection of verse by Thomas Beedome. Selection of the poems of seventeenth century English poet Thomas Beedome. Number 579 of 1250 copies printed on Van Gelder paper by Nonesuch Press in 1928. With Francis Meynell's (editor) foreword. Thomas Beedome died in c.1641 at what appeared to be a young age. His short volume of verses, Divine and Humane, was originally posthumously published in 1641, edited by dramatist and poet Henry Glapthorne. This work was his best and only known publication. Titles include, 'On a Lillie now withered in her bosome', and, 'Fooles Paradise, or Reason Bewitcht&apos. In the original publisher's paper vellum wraps. Externally very smart with light bumping to extremities, boards and spine lightly marked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .