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COTTON, Charles (1630-1687). Poems on Several Occasions. London: for Tho. Bassett, Will. Hensman and Tho. Fox, 1689.
8o (178 x 112 mm). (Title and a few early leaves slightly soiled and with minor nicks to lower edges, light spotting to last few leaves.) Contemporary speckled calf, covers gilt-ruled, edges stained red (rebacked). Provevance: Henry Brockholst Ledyard (engraved bookplate) -- purchased 11 February 1969.
FIRST EDITION of this sizeable but unauthorized posthumous collection of verse by Cotton, translator of Montaigne, who also contributed an important treatise on fly-fishing to the fifth edition (1676) of his friend Isaak Walton's Complete Angler (see lot 360). The collection includes Cotton's nine-stanza poem "The Retirement...to Mr. Isaak Walton" (pp.133-139), an ode in reply to one of Abraham Cowley (pp.280-284), verses praising William Davenant's Gondibert (pp.374-376) a poem to the memory of Richard Lovelace (pp.481-483) and the long poem "Winter," in 53 quatrains, which won the admiration of the later romantic poets. Grolier Wither to Prior 215; Hayward 133; Pforzheimer 221 ("this edition is the one which gave so much delight to Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth"); Wing C6389.
8o (178 x 112 mm). (Title and a few early leaves slightly soiled and with minor nicks to lower edges, light spotting to last few leaves.) Contemporary speckled calf, covers gilt-ruled, edges stained red (rebacked). Provevance: Henry Brockholst Ledyard (engraved bookplate) -- purchased 11 February 1969.
FIRST EDITION of this sizeable but unauthorized posthumous collection of verse by Cotton, translator of Montaigne, who also contributed an important treatise on fly-fishing to the fifth edition (1676) of his friend Isaak Walton's Complete Angler (see lot 360). The collection includes Cotton's nine-stanza poem "The Retirement...to Mr. Isaak Walton" (pp.133-139), an ode in reply to one of Abraham Cowley (pp.280-284), verses praising William Davenant's Gondibert (pp.374-376) a poem to the memory of Richard Lovelace (pp.481-483) and the long poem "Winter," in 53 quatrains, which won the admiration of the later romantic poets. Grolier Wither to Prior 215; Hayward 133; Pforzheimer 221 ("this edition is the one which gave so much delight to Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth"); Wing C6389.