8vo. viii, 294pp, [2], 16pp. With a half-title, an engraved portrait frontispiece, and a final publisher's advertisement catalogue. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities worn and marked, joints split, short tears and surface loss to spine, chipping to lettering-piece. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'From the Author'.

The first edition, in original state, of politician and Hispanophile Henry Richard Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland's (1773-1840) biography of playwright and poet Lope de Vega (1562-1635). A revised edition in two volumes, including a life of Guillen de Castro, appeared in 1817.