Sales catalogue 580: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/124
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 580: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rare IssuE wITH CONTEMPORARY MANuscript ADDITIONS. [571] DRYDEN (John). Assatom anp AcHitopHEL. A Poem. First Eprrion. Firsr Issuz. With 12 lines added in a contemporary hand on p. 6. London, Printed for J. T., 168. Tue SECOND Part oF ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. A Poem. First Epirion. First Issue of the text and an unrecorded issue of the title-page, evidently between Wise’s first and second issues. London, Jacob Tonson, 1682. Folio. Calf. £26 Tue Rare First Epition of the most celebrated of Dryden’s Political Satires, and perhaps the greatest Satire in English. On the title-page of the Second Part the word “Poem” measures 312 inches from limb to limb. Mr. Wise’s first issue measures 3% inches and his second issue 6y5 inches. This is evidently an unrecorded issue of this title-page, agreeing in other respects with Mr. Wise’s second issue. “Tn one respect this poem stands alone in literature. A party Pamphlet dedicated to the hour, it is yet immortal. No poem in our language is so inter-penetrated with contemporary allusion, with contemporary portraiture, with contemporary point, yet no poem in our language has been more enjoyed by succeeding generations of readers. Scores of intelligent men who know by heart the characters of Zimri and Achitophel are content to remain in ignorance of the political careers of Buckingham and Shaftesbury. The speech in which Achitophel incites his faltering disciple has been admired and recited by hundreds who have been blind to its historical fidelity and to its subtle personalities.” [572] DURF EY (Thomas). Wir anp Mirtu: or Pills to Purge Melancholy; Being a Collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Fitted to all Humours, having each their proper Tune for either Voice, or Instrument. Most of the Songs being new Set. Wauth engraved portrait of D’urfey by Geo. Vertue, and musical notation tn the text. First Epirion. 6 vols. Fine copy in old blue morocco, elaborately tooled in gold and blind on the sides and back, g.e. London, W. Pearson, for J. Tonson, 1719-20. 418 18s All volumes bear the title as above. [573] [FIELDING (Henry)]. Dartus’s Feasr: or, The Force and Truth. A Poem, addressed to the Right Honourable the Earls of Salisbury and Exeter. First Eprrion. 20 pp., folio. Unbound. London, Lawlon Giller, 1734. £4 4s Listed as by Fielding in the Wrenn Library Catalogue, Vol. I, p. 143. [574] [FLATMAN (Thomas)]. THe Lasr Witt anp TEsTAMENT oF ANTHONY Kine oF Potanp. (In verse). 4 pp., small folio. Unbound. Printed for S. Ward, 1682. $3 38 See Wrenn Library Catalogue, Vol. II, p. 161. [575] ———— Nasorn’s Vinyarp: or, the Innocent Traytor; copied from the original of Holy Scripture, in Heroick Verse. Firsr Eprrion. Small 4to. Unbound. London, Printed for C. R., 1679. £3 38 Listed as by Flatman in the Wrenn Library Catalogue, Vol. II, p. 159. [ 107 |
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