MESSLER, ABRAHAMABAA
COWLEY, ABRAHAMABAA
Poems: viz. I. Miscellanies. II. The Mistress or Love Verses. III
1656rif. 116311656. COWLEY ABRAHAM. Poems: viz. I. Miscellanies. II. The Mistress or Love Verses. III. Pindarique Odes. And IV. Davideis or a Sacred Poem of the Troubles of David. London: For Humphrey Moseley 1656. Fol. 22 41 1 80 4 70 i.e. 68 154 23 p. Contemporary paneled calf edges gilt; very skillfully rebacked to style later endpapers. Occasional minor spots and repaired marginal tears 3L2 soiled and with a paper defect costing several letters. A lovely copy. Early signature of Edmund Henry Marshall on title; "Ex Libris George Bernard Shaw" on front endpaper. First collected edition of Cowley's verse. "This folio collection passed through eight editions in a generation and represents the canon of Cowley's works upon which his contemporary fame was based. It was prepared for the press while the author was in prison." Pforzheimer 233; Perkin A19; Hayward 89; Grolier Wither to Prior 224; Wing C-6682. unknown books
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