[DRYDEN, John and others]. Miscellany Poems.. by the most Eminent Hands. London: for Jacob Tonson, 1684. 8° (176 x 110mm.). 2pp. Tonson's advertisments not detached from its conjugate 2D5 and consequently bound between 2D7 and 2D8. 2E2 and 2e3 are cancels. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt (label lacking). Provenance: Sir Edward Blount of Sodington, Worcs. (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Wing D-2314; Macdonald 42 a i; Case 172 (I) (a); Britwell Handlist p.666. - State-Poems; continued from the time of O.Cromwel, to this present year 1697. Written by the greatest wits of the age... [i.e. Dryden, Prior, Milton, Rochester inter alia]. [London], 1697. 8° (186 x 109mm.). (ownership inscription torn away from upper margin, lower margin wormed with very occasional loss to final few leaves). Contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt (rubbed, joints weak). Provenance: W.H.Hichens (inscription, dated 1815). FIRST EDITION. Wing S-5325A. - With three others; John Cleveland's Poems with additions, London, 1661, bound with J. Cleaveland Revived, third edition, London, 1662, Thomas Randolph's Poems, fifth edition, Oxford, 1668; and Richard Crashaw's Steps to the Temple.., second edition, London, 1670. (5)

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[DRYDEN, John and others]. Miscellany Poems.. by the most Eminent Hands. London: for Jacob Tonson, 1684. 8° (176 x 110mm.). 2pp. Tonson's advertisments not detached from its conjugate 2D5 and consequently bound between 2D7 and 2D8. 2E2 and 2e3 are cancels. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt (label lacking). Provenance: Sir Edward Blount of Sodington, Worcs. (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Wing D-2314; Macdonald 42 a i; Case 172 (I) (a); Britwell Handlist p.666. - State-Poems; continued from the time of O.Cromwel, to this present year 1697. Written by the greatest wits of the age... [i.e. Dryden, Prior, Milton, Rochester inter alia]. [London], 1697. 8° (186 x 109mm.). (ownership inscription torn away from upper margin, lower margin wormed with very occasional loss to final few leaves). Contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt (rubbed, joints weak). Provenance: W.H.Hichens (inscription, dated 1815). FIRST EDITION. Wing S-5325A. - With three others; John Cleveland's Poems with additions, London, 1661, bound with J. Cleaveland Revived, third edition, London, 1662, Thomas Randolph's Poems, fifth edition, Oxford, 1668; and Richard Crashaw's Steps to the Temple.., second edition, London, 1670. (5)

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