Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 938
  • 938

Wycherley, William

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • Wycherley, William
  • Miscellany Poems: as Satyrs, Epistles, Love-Verses, Songs, Sonnets & c. London: C. Brome, J. Taylor and B. Tooke, 1704
  • ink, paper
Folio (14 x 8 1/2 ins.; 250 X 218 mm). Mezzontint frontispiece portrait by J. Smith after Sir Peter Lely, errata leaf present; fine. Contemporary English gilt-paneled calf; rebacked, a few scuffs.

Provenance

Thomas Foley (early signature) — Charles Lord Halifax (bookplate) — Edward Hubert Litchfield (bookplate, Parke Bernet, 5 December 1951, lot 1016) — Abel Berland (bookplate, Christie's New York, 9 October 2001, lot 369). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

Literature

ESTC T144864; Grolier/Wither to Prior 1085; Hayward 138; Pforzheimer 1101

Catalogue Note

first edition, first issue, large-paper copy.