Miscellany Poems: as Satyrs, epistles, Love-verses, songs, sonnets, &c.
Book Description
Folio (317 x 195 mm), foolscap watermark, mezzotint portrait frontispiece of the author (I. Smith after P. Lely), xlvi, 438 p., with errata leaf, contemporary panelled calf with an old and skilful reback preserving the backstrip, a couple of splits (10 cm and 4 cm) in the later leather not affecting the strength, a sound and attractive copy
Dealer Notes
First edition and complete: at foot of last page is printed 'The End of the First Volume' (sometimes pasted over with a slip reading 'THE END'), but the project was abandoned, a second volume (in 8vo) appearing 1728. Foxon p.907 allows fine paper but not large paper copies. Copies do vary in size according to the trimming, but it is a lavishly printed book and the text margins are usually adequate. Not so for the magnificent portrait described by Pforzheimer 1101 as “the most famous of literary mezzotints”). It has frequently been abstracted for sale as a print, but where present it can sometimes be trimmed. In this copy it has adequate margins.
Author
WYCHERLEY, William
Date
1704
Binding
contemporar calf
Publisher
for C. Brome, J. Taylor, and B. Tooke
Illustrator
Peter Lely
Condition
very good
Pages
xlvi, 438 p.
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