An attractive copy of this special issue, handsomely bound in full green morocco and with further wood-engraved plates by Mark Severin that were not included in the remaining two hundred copies. The masque was for the one of the Jacobean festal performances in London, derived from Homer’s Odyssey, and performed ‘to an audience which crowded the Inner Temple hall. After the event, part of the cloisters had to be repaired, having been “broken down by such as climbed up at the windows of the hall to see the mask”’ (ODNB).

Provenance: Charles Willard Stage (1868-1946), US attorney & politician (book label).