Wither, George

All but one (Three Private Meditations) first editions in octavo format, all but one uniformly bound in nineteenth-century paneled calf, An Improvement similarly bound by Riviere in speckled calf, all copies from the Britwell Court and Fairfax of Cameron libraries.  

An Improvement of Imprisonment, Disgrace, Poverty, into Real Freedom ... Evidenced in a Few Crums & Srcaps [sic] Lately Found in a Prisoners-Basket at Newgate ... For the Refreshing of Himself and Those Who Are Either in a Worse Prison ... London: [s.n.], 1661 (Wing W3163; ESTC R14994) — A Triple Paradox: Affixed to a Counter-Mure Raised Against the Furious Batteries of Restraint, Slander and Poverty, the Three Grand Engines of the World, the Flesh and the Devil. London: Printed for the Author, 1661 (Wing W3202; ESTC R12397) — The Prisoners Plea ... With a petition Annexed, to the Commons of England ... by George Wither: Falsely Charged to Have Composed a Lybel Against the Said Commons, and Therefore Now Prisoner in Newgate. London: [s.n.], 1661. (Wing W3180; ESTC R12459) — A Proclamation in the Name of the King of Kings, to All the Inhabitants of the Isles of Great Brittain ... Summoning Them to Repentance ... London: [s.n.], 1662. Ink stains on the title-page. (Wing W3181; ESTC R122240) — A Memorandum to London, Occassioned [sic] by the Pestilence There Begun This Present Year MDCLXV. [London: s.n.], 1665 (Wing W3171; ESTC R11869) — Three Private Meditations. [London: s.n.], Reprinted in the Year, 1666. The second edition. (Wing W3198; ESTC R12357)  

S.R. Christie-Miller, Britwell Court Library (Sotheby's, 4 April 1924, lot 845; 9 April 1924, lots 635, 637–640, with the catalogue slips mounted to the front pastedowns) — Fairfax of Cameron (armorial bookplate in each volume)

All but one (Three Private Meditations) first editions in octavo format, all but one uniformly bound in nineteenth-century paneled calf, An Improvement similarly bound by Riviere in speckled calf, all copies from the Britwell Court and Fairfax of Cameron libraries. An Improvement of Imprisonment, Disgrace, Poverty, into Real Freedom ... Evidenced in a Few Crums & Srcaps [sic] Lately Found in a Prisoners-Basket at Newgate ... For the Refreshing of Himself and Those Who Are Either in a Worse Prison ... London: [s.n.], 1661 (Wing W3163; ESTC R14994) — A Triple Paradox: Affixed to a Counter-Mure Raised Against the Furious Batteries of Restraint, Slander and Poverty, the Three Grand Engines of the World, the Flesh and the Devil. London: Printed for the Author, 1661 (Wing W3202; ESTC R12397) — The Prisoners Plea ... With a petition Annexed, to the Commons of England ... by George Wither: Falsely Charged to Have Composed a Lybel Against the Said Commons, and Therefore Now Prisoner in Newgate. London: [s.n.], 1661. (Wing W3180; ESTC R12459) — A Proclamation in the Name of the King of Kings, to All the Inhabitants of the Isles of Great Brittain ... Summoning Them to Repentance ... London: [s.n.], 1662. Ink stains on the title-page. (Wing W3181; ESTC R122240) — A Memorandum to London, Occassioned [sic] by the Pestilence There Begun This Present Year MDCLXV. [London: s.n.], 1665 (Wing W3171; ESTC R11869) — Three Private Meditations. [London: s.n.], Reprinted in the Year, 1666. The second edition (Wing W3198; ESTC R12357)
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