(Poetry)

By Richard Crashaw, James Shirley, and Sir John Suckling, the latter two being first editions.

Richard Crashaw. Steps to the Temple. London, 1648. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, separate dated title-page, register and pagination for Delights of the Muses; corner tear to 1A2 just touching catchword. Contemporary calf; spine rubbed. Second edition, with 43 additional poems (Wing C6837; ESTC R212580; Hayward 83). provenance: William Fenwicke. — James Shirley. Poems &c. London, 1646. Engraved portrait frontispiece by W. Marshall, separate title-pages, pagination, and register for Narcissus and The Triumph of Beauty; some scattered staining. 19th-century polished calf gilt; joints rubbed. First collected edition (Wing S3481, S3480, S3488; ESTC R202316; Hayward 85; Pforzheimer 933). provenance: Edward George Hibbert; William Holgate; Paine. acquisition: Seven Gables, 2 February 1960. — Sir John Suckling. Fragmenta Aurea. London, 1646. Engraved frontispiece portrait, general title-page, separate title-pages for Poems &c., Letters to Divers Eminent Personages and An Account of Religion with continuous register and pagination, separate dated title-pages with continuous register and pagination for Aglaura. Presented ... in Black-Fryers and Aglaura. Represented at the Court, the two remaining four works with separate dated title-pages, register, and pagination. Contemporary calf. First edition, first state with the first line of the title all in uppercase (Wing S6126; ESTC R15688; Hayward 84; Pforzheimer 996). acquisition: Seven Gables.
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Richard Crashaw. Steps to the Temple. London, 1648. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, separate dated title-page, register and pagination for Delights of the Muses; corner tear to 1A2 just touching catchword. Contemporary calf; spine rubbed. Second edition, with forty-three additional poems (Wing C6837; ESTC R212580; Hayward 83). provenance: William Fenwicke. — James Shirley. Poems &c. London, 1646. Engraved portrait frontispiece by W. Marshall, separate title-pages, pagination, and register for Narcissus and The Triumph of Beauty; some scattered staining. nineteenth-century polished calf gilt; joints rubbed. First collected edition (Wing S3481, S3480, S3488; ESTC R202316; Hayward 85; Pforzheimer 933). provenance: Edward George Hibbert; William Holgate; Paine. acquisition: Seven Gables, 1960. — Sir John Suckling. Fragmenta Aurea. London, 1646. Engraved frontispiece portrait, general title-page, separate title-pages for Poems &c., Letters to Divers Eminent Personages and An Account of Religion with continuous register and pagination, separate dated title-pages with continuous register and pagination for Aglaura. Presented ... in Black-Fryers and Aglaura. Represented at the Court, the two remaining four works with separate dated title-pages, register, and pagination. Contemporary calf. First edition, first state with the first line of the title all in uppercase (Wing S6126; ESTC R15688; Hayward 84; Pforzheimer 996). acquisition: Seven Gables