8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, 696pp. Third edition, stated ‘Reprinted 1959, 1962.’ Price clipped dust jacket toned to panels, small chips to top edge and spine panel. Discreet ownership bookplate to front endpaper. Text block, endpapers and preliminary pages heavily foxed, board corners bumped. Contents clean, binding firm. A consummate literary study of sixteenth century England, surveying the late medieval period, the Drab Age, and the Golden period, replete with a chronological table, bibliography and index. The Completion of The Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1944. A handsome copy in mylar.