CAREW, THOMAS. Poems. London: by I[ohn] D[awson] for Thomas Walkley, 1640. 8vo, calf gilt by BEDFORD, rebacked with old spine laid down, g.e.; trimmed close, affecting a few paginations and signatures. FIRST EDITION, with errata leaf A2, separate title page to Coelum Brittanicum and uncancelled G7. Grolier/Wither to Prior 141; Hayward 76; STC 4620; Pforzheimer 126 "The only copies which we have located, besides the Cox, containing the uncancelled Sig [G7] are the Phillips-Chew-Huntington, and the Huth-White copy now at the Rosenbach Company"; Huth sale II, lot 1307 ("VERY RARE").

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CAREW, THOMAS. Poems. London: by I[ohn] D[awson] for Thomas Walkley, 1640. 8vo, calf gilt by BEDFORD, rebacked with old spine laid down, g.e.; trimmed close, affecting a few paginations and signatures. FIRST EDITION, with errata leaf A2, separate title page to Coelum Brittanicum and uncancelled G7. Grolier/Wither to Prior 141; Hayward 76; STC 4620; Pforzheimer 126 "The only copies which we have located, besides the Cox, containing the uncancelled Sig [G7] are the Phillips-Chew-Huntington, and the Huth-White copy now at the Rosenbach Company"; Huth sale II, lot 1307 ("VERY RARE").
Provenance
"Mrs. Anne Gore her Booke Ano. Dom. 1664," inscription on fly-leaf; Huth bookplate (sale Sotheby's 1912, part 2 lot 1307); White, inscription on front free endpaper.

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