31st May, 2017 10:00

Printed Books and Manuscripts
 
  Lot 163
 
Lot 163 - WALLER, Edmund (1606-87).  The Works ... In...

WALLER, Edmund (1606-87).  The Works ... In Verse and Prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. London: Printed for I. Tonson, 1729. 4to (280 x 220mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Godfrey Kneller, [?]title supplied in fine contemporary manuscript, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Lady Margaret Cavendishe Harley, engraved armorial headpiece and fine floriated initial, engraved plate of coins at the end, illustrations, vignettes, initials and decorations (lightly browned, some spotting and staining). Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked preserving old spine, later red morocco lettering piece, corners worn, rubbed, later endpapers). Provenance: later pencil annotation on front pastedown. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Grolier English 27; Wither to Prior 941. With John Dryden's Poems on Various Occasions; and Translations from Several Authors ... Now first publish'd together in one Volume (London, 1701, lacks all before title, title laid down, 20th-century red half morocco). (2)

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