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WYCHERLEY, William (1640?-1716). Miscellany Poems: as Satyrs, Epistles, Love-Verses, Songs, Sonnets, etc. London: C. Brome, J. Taylor and B. Tooke, 1704.
2o (350 x 220 mm). Mezzotint frontispiece portrait of Wycherley after Lely (front free endpaper detached, very occasional pale spotting. Contemporary gilt-panelled and gilt-tooled speckled calf, gilt spine, red morocco shelf label, g.e. (front hinges starting and very fragile, spine and extremities a little rubbed, a few scuffs to covers); folding case. Provenance: Grinling Gibbons (1648-1720), sculptor (presentation inscription on front free endpaper: "For the worthy Dr. Gibbons from his most obliged and humble servant W. Wycherly"); Elizabeth Gibbons, one of Grinling's five daughters and executrix of his estate (inscription on front free endpaper "Ex dono Eli. Gibbons"; David and Lulu Borowitz (bookplate on front pastedown).
FIRST EDITION, first issue, with title dated 1704 before the remainder copies were issued with a new title dated 1706, without the correction slip "The End" usually found pasted over "The End of the First Volume" at the end of the book. PRESENTATION COPY TO GRINLING GIBBONS. Hayward 138; Pforzheimer 1101.
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FIRST EDITION, first issue, with title dated 1704 before the remainder copies were issued with a new title dated 1706, without the correction slip "The End" usually found pasted over "The End of the First Volume" at the end of the book. PRESENTATION COPY TO GRINLING GIBBONS. Hayward 138; Pforzheimer 1101.