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MARVELL, Andrew (1621-1678). Miscellaneous Poems. London: Robert Boulter, 1681.
2o (301 x 186 mm). Engraved frontispiece of Marvell within eight-sided frame, title with woodcut printer's device. (Portrait with outer margins repaired.) 19th-century calf, spine gilt by Bedford. Provenance: Henry Huth (bookplate); Robert Herring (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the principal collection of Marvell's verse, edited by his widow, who in her prefatory address to the reader asserts that "all these Poems...are Printed according to the exact Copies of my late dear Husband, under his own Hand-Writing, being found since his death among his other Papers..." (The editor of Edmund Curll's 1726 collected edition claimed that Marvell was never married, but this has been discredited.) In this volume are first printed most of Marvell's best-known poetry, including "To His Coy Mistress" ("Had we but World enough, and Time..."), "A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body," "The Garden," "The Drop of Dew," "The Nymph Complaining of the Death of Her Faun," "The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers," and the sequence of Mower poems. R2-T1 and U2-X2 are here cancelled as usual to suppress three long poems on Oliver Cromwell (these leaves are present only in the BL and Huntington copies). Allison 9A; Grolier Wither to Prior 536; Hayward 126; Pforzheimer 671; Wing M-872.
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FIRST EDITION of the principal collection of Marvell's verse, edited by his widow, who in her prefatory address to the reader asserts that "all these Poems...are Printed according to the exact Copies of my late dear Husband, under his own Hand-Writing, being found since his death among his other Papers..." (The editor of Edmund Curll's 1726 collected edition claimed that Marvell was never married, but this has been discredited.) In this volume are first printed most of Marvell's best-known poetry, including "To His Coy Mistress" ("Had we but World enough, and Time..."), "A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body," "The Garden," "The Drop of Dew," "The Nymph Complaining of the Death of Her Faun," "The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers," and the sequence of Mower poems. R2-T1 and U2-X2 are here cancelled as usual to suppress three long poems on Oliver Cromwell (these leaves are present only in the BL and Huntington copies). Allison 9A; Grolier Wither to Prior 536; Hayward 126; Pforzheimer 671; Wing M-872.