Fuller, Thomas

8vo (5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.; 134 x 89 mm). Headers and footers of printer's ornaments on each page, one woodcut headpiece and initial; outer margin of A2 cropped costing a few letters in the dedication verse, lacks final blank. Nineteenth-century straight-grain tan morocco, fine gilt double-filleted border, smooth spine lettered gilt, plain endpapers, edges gilt; joints lightly rubbed.

Bute Library (Cardiff Castle bookplate and sale, Christie's London, 15 March 1995, lot 110) — J.O. Edwards (bookplate). acquisition: Ximenes, 2002

STC 11463; ESTC S102822; Gibson 1; Grolier/Wither to Prior 385

8vo (5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.; 134 x 89 mm). Headers and footers of printer's ornaments on each page, one woodcut headpiece and initial; outer margin of A2 cropped costing a few letters in the dedication verse, lacks final blank. Nineteenth-century straight=grain tan morocco, fine gilt double-filleted border, smooth spine lettered gilt, plain endpapers, edges gilt; joints lightly rubbed.
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First edition, the Bute copy. Fuller's first publication and his only volume of verse. Relatively scarce, ESTC locates ten copies in American and British libraries.