Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 241
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Denham, John

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • Denham, John
  • Cooper's Hill. Written in the yeare 1640. Now Printed from a perfect Copy; and a Corrected Impression. London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1655
  • ink, paper, leather
4to (7 x 5 1/4 ins.; 178 x 135 mm). With blank D2 present; hole to D3 affecting a few letters only, scattered pale spotting, mostly to margins. Nineteenth-century black morocco gilt, edges gilt.

Provenance

Wilfred Merton (bookplate) — Abel Berland (bookplate; Christie's New York, October 8, 2001, lot 202). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

Literature

Wing D996; ESTC R29709;  Hayward 107

Catalogue Note

First authorized edition of Denham's topographical poem, correcting the many earlier pirated editions. The author's description of the River Thames was much admired by Dryden, Pope and Samuel Jonson.