Poetry

Various authors including Thomas Flatman, Richard Flecknoe, Robert Gomersall, Robert Gould, John Greene, Fulke Greville, and George Herbert, a few first editions. Various formats, some in contemporary bindings. Two with the bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron.

Thomas Flatman.  Poems and Songs. London: Printed by S. and B. G[riffin]. for Benjamin Took, 1674. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait, A3 is cancelled, first two leaves blank except for Sig. A on recto of second leaf, last two leaves blank; closed tear on E1, lacks final blank. Polished calf paneled gilt. first edition (Wing F1151; ESTC R7358). provenance: Fairfax of Cameron. acquisition: Charles W. Traylen. — Richard Flecknoe. Miscellania. Or Poems of All Sorts, with Divers Other Pieces. London: Printed by T. R. for the Author, 1653. 8vo. Dedicatory letter in English and French; fore-edges of title-page and C1 neatly remargined. Nineteenth-century straight-grain morocco; rebacked. first edition (Wing F1231; ESTC R208977; Grolier/Wither to Prior 364). provenance: Anthony Fair; Sotheby's, 15–16 May 1967, lot 51. acquisition: Seven Gables. — Robert Gomersall. Poems. London: Printed by M[iles]. F[isher]. for John Marriot, 1633. 8vo. Separate title-pages for The Tragedie of Lodovick Sforza and The Levites Revenge dated 1633 (each a second edition), engraved frontispieces by Thomas Cecil, separate pagination but continuous register; worming throughout affecting the engraved frontispieces and text, some headlines shaved, light text browning. Eighteenth-century speckled calf gilt; rebacked.  First collected edition (STC 11993; ESTC S103214; Pforzheimer 412). acquisition: Peter Murray Hill. — Robert Gould. Love Given O're: Or, a Satyr Against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman. London: Printed for Andrew Green, 1682. 4to. Headlines shaved, imprint and some catchwords cropped. Modern red cloth. first edition (Wing G1422; ESTC R28042). acquisition: Grinke & Rodgers. — John Greene. The Worlds Riddle and the Saints Blisse. [London]: sold by Thomas Faucet, 1641. 4to. D4v signed "I.G."; browned, some page numbers cropped, upper corner of final leaf clipped. Nineteenth-century half calf; upper board nearly detached. first edition (Wing G1824A; ESTC R40514). provenance: Fairfax of Cameron.  acquisition: Charles W. Traylen. — Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke. The Remains of Sir Fulk Grevill Lord Brooke: Being Poems of Monarchy and Religion. London: Printed by T. N[ewcombe]. for Henry Herringman, 1670. 8vo. Preliminary imprimatur leaf; lacks final blank. Contemporary mottled calf; mottling oxidized. first edition (Wing B4900; ESTC R350; Grolier/Wither to Prior 408; Pforzheimer 438). acquisition: Grinke & Rodgers. — George Herbert. The Temple ... The Eleventh Edition. London: Printed by S. Roycroft for R.S., and Are to Be Sold by John Williams Junior, 1678. 12mo. Engraved portrait by R. White, two full-page engraved text illustrations, Izaak Walton's "Life of George Herbert" with separate register and pagination. (Wing H1522; ESTC R15064).  [Bound with:] Christopher Harvey. The Synagogue ... The Seventh Edition.  London: Printed by S. Roycroft for R.S., and Are to Be Sold by John Williams Junior, 1679. Separate register and pagination; browned. (Wing H1050; ESTC R24978). Contemporary black morocco gilt Cambridge-style binding. acquisition: Bernard Quaritch. — Another edition. The Temple ... The Thirteenth Edition. London: Printed for John Wyat and Eben. Tracy, 1709. 12mo. Engraved portrait, two full-page engraved text illustrations; lacks quires A–C (Harvey's The Synagogue), register and pagination follow (at quire D) with Walton's "Life of George Herbert" with printed note by Walton, and two pages of publisher's advertisements at the end. Contemporary black morocco gilt Cambridge-style binding. (ESTC T82912).