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[THOMAS D'URFEY, contributor]

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Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to purge Melancholy, edited by Henry Playford

London: W. Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719. Volume II only, 12mo. (6¼ x 3¾; 165 x 96mm), title with woodcut portrait, woodcut music and tail-pieces (tear into text of H12, E1 with tear at lower margin, lacks [?]half-title), contemporary panelled calf (newly rebacked). Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate; sold at Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, lot 31 to Epworth for £4-5-0). Includes a slightly altered version of Shinken's song in D'Urfey's Richmond Heiress (p. 172). Goldman p. 158: "one of the first references to cricket"; Padwick 853.

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JOHN ARBUTHNOT, ALEXANDER POPE AND JOHN GAY

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London: for Charles Bathurst, and sold by T. Woodward [and others], 1751. Volume III only, 8° (167 x 103mm), title in red and black, contemporary calf (crude rebacking). Provenance: Henry St. John (ownership inscription dated Eton College, 1751, on front free endpaper) -- J.W. Goldman (pasted-over bookplate). Volume III includes Arbuthnot's Law is a Bottomless Pit: or, The History of John Bull, with the cricket reference on p. 133. (2)
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