Lot 298
  • 298

H[ookes]., N[icholas].

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Description

  • H[ookes]., N[icholas].
Amanda, A Sacrifice To an Unknown Goddesse, Or, A Free-will Offering Of a loving Heart to a Sweet-Heart. For Humphrey Tuckey, 1653

Provenance

Cornelius Paine, bookplate and signature; George Thorn-Drury, notes at end of volume (his sale at Sotheby's, 12 May 1931, lot 404)

Literature

Wing H2665; Grolier Wither to Prior 462; Pforzheimer 504

Catalogue Note

This is the series of poems by which Nicholas Hookes (1628-1712) became known. His phraseology was much indebted to Shakespeare.