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SUCKLING, John. Fragmenta aurea: A Collection of All the Incomparable Peeces. London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1646. 4 parts in one vol. 8o. General title and five sectional titles, engraved portrait frontispiece by W. Marshall (frontispiece reinforced along gutter margin, B3 torn and repaired, few other leaves with marginal repairs). Late 19th-century red morocco gilt by Bedford, g.e. (very light rubbing to spine ends and corners). FIRST EDITION, third state of general title-page (with the first line set in capitals and lower case, with the d in Churchyard perfectly printed and a period after it, and with a rule under the date), with the corresponding second state of page [VI] (with "allowred" corrected to "allowed"). Pforzheimer 995; Wing S-6126B.