(Poetry)

Robert Heath. Clarastella; Together with Poems, Occasional, Elegies, Epigrams, Satyrs.  London: Humph. Moseley, 1650. 12mo. Contemporary calf. (Wing H1338; Hayward 99).  acquisition: 3 November 1969 — Thomas Stanley.  Poems.  N.p., 1651.  8vo. Contemporary calf.  (Wing S5241; Hayward 101). acquisition: 14 December 1964 — Edward Sherburne. Salmacis, Lyrian & Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia, the Rape of Helen, A Comment thereon, with Severall other Poems and Translations.  London: W. Hunt for Thomas Dring, 1651.  8vo. Calf gilt.  (Wing S3223; Hayward 102). acquisition: 10 November 1967 — Sir William D'Avenant.  Gondibert: An Heroick Poem. London: Tho. Newcomb for John Holden, 1651.  4to. Vellum over boards.  Numerous manuscript notes. (Wing D325; Hayward 103) — William Cartwright. Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, With other Poems. London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1651.  8vo. Calf gilt.  (Wing C709; Hayward 104). provenance: Ogden Goelet (armorial bookplate); David and Lulu Borowitz (bookplate; Sotheby's New York, 15 November 1977, lot 48)

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